A Quick Scan

All of your barcodes are a scan by us

Downtime: DNS Servers are down

If you've used Bakodo in the last hour or so, you might have seen that the rich set of results you are used to were not showing. The main site also seems to be down. We've traced the problem back to our DNS service handled by www.101domain.com. We're working with them to restore the service, which should be back as soon as some changes to their DNS servers propagate fully.

Sorry for the inconvenience, we're working to fix this.

Andres

Bakodo 3.2 hits the AppStore

With it's latest iOS 4.2, Apple introduced a bug that was causing inconsistent behavior on 3GS iPhones using the AVFoundation framework. Bakodo uses this framework for its realtime barcode scanning and therefore some of our 3GS users were experiencing a crash of Bakodo on launch.

The fact that only some of our users were experiencing the crash meant we had to rely on our users to debug the problem. We'd like to thank all the users who submitted crash reports and sent us information about what was happening. I'd like to extend a special thanks to user David Coviello Jr (@DavidQT69) for being one of the first to report the crash and continue to help us out with testing of the new builds. Your help is much appreciated.

Because of the review process of the AppStore being stopped during the last week of December meant we had to wait a bit longer for the update to hit the market. We didn't sit idle, and worked even throughout Christmas to fix even more bugs and add some features, such as the much-requested storing of QR Codes in your history, as well as QR Code scanning for 3G iphones. All and all, 3.2 is a solid update which we hope you enjoy. You can grab it here. Made with love by team Bakodo.

We thought this update would be a great way to start the year. Happy scanning in the 2011!

Andres

Bakodo Crashing on >= 4.2

Some users are reporting that Bakodo is crashing when running iOS 4.2
or later on iPhone 3GS.

We are trying to get as many crash logs as possible, so if you are
seeing this crash, and would like to be helpful, please send us your
crash logs to help@bako.do.

Here are instructions on how to find crash logs:

http://developer.apple.com/library/ios/#technotes/tn2008/tn2151.html

Thanks for using Bakodo, and for helping us make it better.

Hope you're all having a good weekend. Keep the scanning up!

Andres

Git Possible Repository Corruption Scare

Just hit this error while $git pull'ing. Scared our pants off. Turns out it was a lack of memory while packing the objects (probably a large file that we're hunting down). Reclaiming back some ram fixed it. Don't fear, your files should still be in good shape.

remote: warning: suboptimal pack - out of memory
error: git upload-pack: git-pack-objects died with error.
fatal: git upload-pack: aborting due to possible repository corruption on the remote side.
remote: fatal: Out of memory, malloc failed
remote: aborting due to possible repository corruption on the remote side.
fatal: early EOF
fatal: index-pack failed

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