SiMU Lab available on the app store!

It's there! After over 8 months of work I finally have SiMU on the App Store. It still needs to features like SSL primarily, but that's going to take some time due to requiring a test system for Apple to test against, and me getting US government approval.

If you get a change, please install SiMU Lab from the App Store. It's free!

Copy of the email I sent to my beta users:

Everyone,
It's my pleasure to announce that the first version of SiMU was released to the Apple App Store. This would not have been possible without many of your comments, suggestions, and of course finding bugs for me. :) The application is free and available as I write this note. (I just downloaded and installed it myself.

My final ask of you is to download and install the application. It's free, and if I get some downloads on the first day it should help get some recognition on the store.

The first version will not include SSL encryption. I need to resolve two things for that to happen, so it's going to be a little while. You should be able to continue using the Beta version if you need encryption. There are very few, if any bugs fixed in the release that you don't have. There are some cosmetic changes that you may notice.

Thanks everyone! Please download the application tomorrow from your device if you can. I will really appreciate it.

If you search for "cisco ucs" it's the only hit. Or you can follow this link: Link to AppStore

-Tige
tige@tigelane.com

App Store submission

I've created a build called SiMU Lab. This is a non-encrypted version of SiMU. I'm doing this to get around the problem of exporting encryption out of the country.

The app has been reviewed and rejected because they need a server to connect too. I'll have a virtual lab setup soon for them, so I'm hoping to have it approved in the next 2 weeks. Once that version is accepted I'll work on the encrypted version.

Thanks for your support everyone.

-Tige

The government!

I've spent the last two weekends and most of the evenings cleaning up SiMU and getting it ready for app store submission. Redoing the icons to be the right size, getting screen shots for iTunes, making sure all my debugging code it removed or turned off, and then I did it. I click the button that says "Add New Application". It asks for the primary language, Done. It asks for the Company Name, Done. Then it asks if I have any encryption in my app... Well, yes it uses SSL, but certainly this can't be what they are referring too. Oh yes it is.

So, now because I use SSL to talk to the UCSM I need to get the government to "approve" my application before I can submit it to Apple. Some people are saying this can take a month or two after I submit.. Pathetic. I'm off to fill out some ridiculous document and submit it (hopefully not via fax) to someone that probably doesn't know anything about this industry. Wish me luck..

I might put out a final beta version based on the release code. We'll see how this goes first.

-Tige

Spaces getting low in Beta

Well.. I don't know what happened this week, but I had a number of new people ask to get into the Beta. I have only 100 spots to be able to provide beta code, and I have 75 people in now. If you know anyone that wants in, you should let them know soon. As I've said a dozen times now I'm going to work on getting it released to iTunes so I won't have this problem anymore.

I'm on vacation this week from work, but still trying to cover beta requests as I can. Sorry if it took a few days to get you a build.

Happy Independence Day

I hope you all had a great 4th of July (if you are in the USA that is). Otherwise, hopefully you had a good weekend. I've got a lot of good feedback and fixed a few bugs in the last few weeks, and I think I'm close enough now to focus on getting a iTunes capable release out the door. Once that's done I can spend more time working on features and fixing bugs and not making builds and adding people to the development lists I have to keep track of.

Thanks everyone, have a great week. I'm going to be on vacation all week, but still watching e-mail for issues.

Version 2.6.12

I've mostly fixed the bug in the protocols vs the settings. If they match it should not be a problem. If they don't match you should get an error, and it should try to make an secure connection. Please let me know if you see any problems.

BTW, you don't need to enter a full URL into the hostname field. Just use the IP address, or hostname. eg. 10.10.20.1 or myucs.mycompany.com

Web Protocol Bug in 2.6.11

Seenivasan just found a bug in the hostname field on the main page. Security is controlled by the setting on the info screen (i) button in the top right corner. You do not need to type http or https in the hostname field. They will have no effect on the protocol used. The application originally would not use SSL, so I gave an error if you typed "https://hostname" in the field. I since have changed it to use SSL, but I forgot to remove that check.

Please just use the hostname (no http:// or https:// prefix) in the hostname field for UCSM. I've already fixed this for the next version.