iOS 7.1 Beta 1 Bug Fixes and Changes

[MikhailT]

It takes up to a week to start working after being off for a week?

For many of the programmers that I know and work with, yes. I did say up to a week for some folks but it may just take 1-3 days for most. Especially with complex projects that interacts with dozens of different parts.

You just lose the momentum and have to figure out how to get it going again. It's difficult to just pick up from where you left off, just like it's difficult to resume writing a back when you stop writing it for a few weeks.

 

[PNutts]

For many of the programmers that I know and work with, yes. Especially with complicated projects that interacts with dozens of different parts. You just lose the momentum and have to figure out how to get back into it. It takes a while to catch up and build it up.

Let me know if they're hiring. And who they are so I can avoid them when I need software in a timely fashion.

 

[C DM]

This really isn't a beta 2 thread, but given the recent influx of beta 2 posts it would probably be worth pointing out that any time off or anything else might not have any impact on any of beta releases--there's no set time for updates, just because it was one way before, doesn't mean there's something specifically behind it and that it would be that way always.

Work likely continues, and depending on what Apple wants to have in the next beta and how many betas they might envision having (and they might not even have that planned out to the last detail) no particular time between betas, short or long, is really an indicator of anything, or is really bad or good in any particular sense.

 

[thegrants82]

It would be great if beta 2 came out before the weekend!

 

[MikhailT]

Let me know if they're hiring. And who they are so I can avoid them when I need software in a timely fashion.

If you want quality software (which we often do), realistically it is going to take more time than what you usually assume. In addition, we actually do meet our estimates 90% of the times. Software development is an art most of the time, not science.

If Apple, the largest tech company in the world, can't maintain the same release cycle for majority of their apps, don't expect other companies to guarantee it either.

If you don't give your programmers a chance to breathe and let them work on it naturally rather than forced to rush to meet deadlines, many times, it's just not going to meet your quality standards.

Of course, it isn't always true. There are a lot of lazy programmers and you got to give them tough love. But if you're working with a good team, you never have to do this and can leave them to it. I've been with good and bad teams, the bad ones, yea....no comments.

 

[nheilweil]

I would love to know if select multiple is fixed.
http://www.w3schools.com/tags/tryit.asp?filename=tryhtml_select_multiple

https://forums.macrumors.com/threads/1658609/

It would save me a ton of work if this was being fixed in 7.1

Nope...same result on 7.1b1 as with 7.0.4 -- the select box reflects total number of selections minus one.

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Idk if someone has already mentioned this but my AppStore update badge is not clearing. Sometimes you need to reboot and it clears but it doesnt work all the time.

Yup -- drives me crazy. On my AT&T 5S, under the App Store Updates tab, I have "Pending Updates" it shows apps with the "Open" selection as though they have been updated (which they haven't) -- which is why the badge remains. Sooner or later though they do get updated though.