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Re: Apple Developer System Status

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Post by teuobk »

jstsch wrote: post #3

Ughhh. Just noticed that I can't install the XCode Command Line Tools because the dev center is down... no stdio.h on my system. What is this, the dark ages!? :)

I successfully installed the XCode command line tools on a new machine yesterday via the Preferences dialog box in XCode. The web installation route is definitely unavailable, but the Preferences route appears to continue to work.

Re: Apple Developer System Status

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Post by ashishgandhi »

1qaz2wsx3edc wrote: post #13
reggplant wrote: post #4

Here is a copy of the email I received: We apologize for the significant inconvenience caused by our developer website downtime. We've been working around the clock to overhaul our developer systems, update our server software, and rebuild our entire database. While we complete the work to bring our systems back online, we want to share the latest with you. We plan to roll out our updated systems, starting with Certi…

What's interesting about this rebuild is it tell us Apple tightly couples it's services. I would except at Apple's scale they would have followed a Service Oriented Architecture. This doesn't seem to be the case at all. And whatever happened to static hosting for videos/downloads.

As of now right now (~1374712460) there are two systems that are online: iTunes Connect and Bug Reporter. And both seem to use the cannot-be-killed* WebObjects. You can clearly see that in the URLs as they mention "WebObjects" and end in ".woa" (assuming it means Web Objects Application).

*I've no idea what WebObjects are but I've heard people poke fun at their mention. Would be interesting if someone had more details to share.

Side Note: If you are looking to install Command Line Tools and seem to be unable to install Xcode from the App Store. You can go to Xcode > Preference and install it. Screen shot from a couple of minutes ago: http://i.imgur.com/KEhjkE3.png

Re: Apple Developer System Status

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Post by briandear »

[deleted] wrote: post #19

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I'm hope you were able to understand the grey vs. green! I suppose they could have used blinking text. Better yet, blinking red text with double strike-throughs. And, an auto-play theme song with the player controllers hidden in the footer. Anything to make it more obvious so we don't get misled into thinking grey actually meant: "This service is actually functioning, just ignore the bright green, those mean that the service is also functioning. At Apple, we think different and that starts with using two colors that mean the same thing so as to give an image that we're perfect and never make mistakes."

Re: Apple Developer System Status

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Post by dietrichepp »

ashishgandhi wrote: post #27
1qaz2wsx3edc wrote: post #13

Earlier quoted context omitted.

What's interesting about this rebuild is it tell us Apple tightly couples it's services. I would except at Apple's scale they would have followed a Service Oriented Architecture. This doesn't seem to be the case at all. And whatever happened to static hosting for videos/downloads.

As of now right now (~1374712460) there are two systems that are online: iTunes Connect and Bug Reporter. And both seem to use the cannot-be-killed* WebObjects. You can clearly see that in the URLs as they mention "WebObjects" and end in ".woa" (assuming it means Web Objects Application). *I've no idea what WebObjects are but I've heard people poke fun at their mention. Would be interesting if someone had more detail…

WebObjects is a web application framework. It's OLD old. It's about ten years older than Ruby on Rails, putting it on par with PHP and Ruby itself. NeXT made it and Apple decided to make it free. It was Objective-C and is now Java.
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