Scott Gruby’s Blog

After a lot of thought, I’ve decided to put my WirelessModem program up for sale. I’ve neglected the software for too long due to my own lack of interest (I haven’t used the software since I got rid of my Treo 300 a few years back). If anyone is interested in purchasing the source code [...]

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Day 3 started out with me crashing a customer’s Treo. He was complaining that the PhoneCallDB file wouldn’t backup and would hang the sync. So I thought that purging the call history (which uses the PhoneCallDB database) would help out. So, I purged the call history for calls older than 1 week. His device immediately [...]

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At the end of yesterday’s show (6 pm), a man comes up to the booth and says that his friend, Sinbad, has a support question and wants to know if I can talk to him on the phone. He dials Sinbad, hands the phone to me and I gave Sinbad some help with his issue. [...]

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Another long day at the show; great feedback from customers and the day was topped off with dinner with members of the Sync Services development team and other companies doing Sync Services. I’m quite excited as I see Sync Services the future to synchronization on the Mac.

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For this Macworld trip, we couldn’t get rooms in our normal place, so we’re staying at the Hotel Triton. It is one of the weirdest places I’ve ever stayed. They have different types of rooms and it appears that I’m staying in a Zen room.Pictures are below.

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Apple announced some really cool stuff and I’m torn on if I should buy a new MacBook. Speed seems great, but I normally get new hardware every 2 years and it’s only 18 months since my last machine. Also, it is 1.0 version of hardware and with AppleCare and enough RAM, it is over $3100 [...]

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I’m headed up to Macworld today for what will probably be another decent show. The rumors are going rampant about what Steve Jobs will announce. Whatever it is, it should be decent. He also puts on a good keynote and that really excites the entire Mac community. This will also be a good chance for [...]

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Yesterday I received email that the OS my server was running (Fedora Core 3) was going to be put on legacy status and only security updates would be posted or something like that. Normally I don’t like to do major upgrades on my server as I always spend tons of time futzing. However, in order [...]

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No, I’m not talking about aliens, I’m talking about Apple Computer. I got a cold call from a researcher at Apple who saw my resumé on Linked In. (I’ve thought that Linked In was kind of a joke, but now I might reconsider.) Apparently my resumé looked interesting for a couple of positions. Unfortunately the [...]

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For the last 6 or 7 months, I’ve been working on Missing Sync for Palm OS. We have finally shipped and it is a big relief. I acted not only as the lead engineer, but as product manager due to others at Mark/Space being quite busy. Needless to say, at times, I’ve been overwhelmed taking [...]

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