There is a New Brainiac In Town
Please allow me to introduce our newest team member, Gabriel Reyes.
Welcome aboard, Gabe.
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Pulse Gateway Source Code Available for Download
Sorry for the lack of postings! Most of the staff is taking the holidays off, so it’s just Garrett Kelly and I right now.
The Pulse Gateway source code is available for download. Documentation is sparse. This will be updated as we move forward.
-Daniel
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BIG STORM
Our ISP was knocked out by the storm last night. We may have limited connectivity throughout the day as well.
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A case for small contractors
At Brain Murmurs our approach is to tackle hard problems with small groups. A question that comes up a lot is, why get a small group of extremely skilled consultants when you could have the resources of a large company.
I think the answer comes in the way people are motivated to work. In […]
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The Pulse Gateway is Now Available for Download
Sorry for the delay. Installer packages, available as either a self-extracting binary for i386 Linux or a Universal build for OS X, can be downloaded here.
Please note that you should be moderately clueful about network administration before attempting this. If you don’t know what “sudo” is or you don’t know how to open […]
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Update
It’s been a pretty interesting day today. To start, we got the slashdotting of a lifetime, which added considerable excitement around the shop.
We’re trying to do a little final quality assurance on the Pulse Gateway. Ideally we’ll have builds posted tonight along with some short documentation on how to set this […]
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Bluetooth Stack Test Methodology
A few people have asked how we tested the BlackBerry Bluetooth performance, so here it is.
I wrote an application for the BlackBerry called BlueBlaster and another application for OS X called MacBlaster. The BlueBlaster application accepts incoming connections from the MacBlaster application. Once a connection is received, the BlueBlaster program starts dumping data […]
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The RIM Bluetooth Stack, continued
Several people have suggested that we ask RIM what the problem is directly.
Yes, we’ve been trying, so far this hasn’t been a favorable environment for information gathering.
-Daniel
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Pulse Proxy To Be Released This Week
Beta results are looking excellent, so we’re going to cut our 1.0 Linux and OS X builds and get them out the door this week.
-Daniel
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What did RIM Do To Their Bluetooth Performance?
The BlackBerry’s Bluetooth performance has been impacted across the board in the latest series RIM’s BlackBerry OS 4.1 updates. These updates appear to primarily impact the 8700 and 7100 series Blackberry devices.
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