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First Issue is a new publishing platform that will allow you to create simple, content oriented digital magazines and distribute them to Apples Newsstand.

Home Page: www.firstissue.co/

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firstissue's Introduction

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Redefining the magazine for the digital age

First Issue is a new publishing platform that will allow you to create simple, content oriented digital magazines and distribute them to Apples Newsstand.

To publish to a potential audience of hundreds of millions of readers, it's as simple as,

Create your magazine. Setup branding, look and feel, and subscription options
Author your content directly in our article editor
One click to push Issues to subscribers

That's it. We handle the creation and registration of the Newsstand app with Apple and the difficult technical details of pushing your content to subscribers leaving you free to concentrate on what you do best - creating compelling content for your magazine.

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firstissue's Issues

ZIP package is corrupted

Not sure what happened but the ZIP archive is corrupt (just extracts a .zip.cpgz file)

Omit JSON properties from API that are null or empty

For example:

    "articles": [
        {
            "ArticleId": 1, 
            "Author": "Marco Arment", 
            "SubTitle": null, 
            "Title": "Forward"
        }
    ]

The 'SubTitle' field ideally wouldn't exist instead of being given the value of null.

Issue number is always 0

Probably need an automated way to increment this as well as offering an override.

LastModified date in issues list doesn't include time

It just outputs the date:

{
    "Issues": [
        {
            "IssueId": 1, 
            "IssueNumber": 0, 
            "LastModified": "1753-01-01T00:00:00", 
            "Name": "Introduction", 
            "PublishDate": "1753-01-01T00:00:00"
        }, 
        {
            "IssueId": 2, 
            "IssueNumber": 1, 
            "LastModified": "2012-09-10T00:00:00", 
            "Name": "Issue One", 
            "PublishDate": "2012-09-10T00:00:00"
        }, 
        {
            "IssueId": 3, 
            "IssueNumber": 2, 
            "LastModified": "2012-11-10T00:00:00", 
            "Name": "Issue Two", 
            "PublishDate": "2012-11-10T00:00:00"
        }, 
        {
            "IssueId": 4, 
            "IssueNumber": 3, 
            "LastModified": "2012-12-08T00:00:00", 
            "Name": "Issue Three", 
            "PublishDate": "2012-12-08T00:00:00"
        }
    ], 
    "Message": "", 
    "Success": true
}

But we'll probably want the time otherwise updates issued on the same day won't work until the next day.

Website doesn't work with naked domain

I think this worked before so it's broken again. Personally I think we're better off without the www, which feels quite 90s and early 2000s.

Some way to notify which 'issue' is the introduction article, preferably via the API

So on first download, I can display the introduction article.

Post your iPad UDIDs here

Put your iPad's UDID here if you want to test the app. The easiest way to find the UDID is via iTunes: http://www.imore.com/daily-tip-find-udid-device-information

Only send published issues via API

Currently I think I'm getting all issues via the API, including empty (maybe unpublished) ones.

Use JSON for styles API

Currently the styles API returns a CSS file, I would prefer if it returned JSON so I don't have to parse CSS.

Current list of properties:

backgroundColor
lineHeight
titleFont
bodyFont
titleColour
bodyColour

Add cover to package instead of using separate API

After doing some more work with NewsstandKit, it seems pointless to separate the cover from each issue package. It just adds extra work in the app and unnecessary APIs.

So instead of having to call APIs to get the cover, could you just include the cover in the ZIP package so it has a structure like:

/summary.json
/cover.png - (converted to PNG, 512px wide longest edge)
/[email protected] - (convert to PNG, 1024 wide longest edge)
/etc...

Thanks

Setup azure auto deployment

Before the weekend we need to have auto deployment setup to a test environment on azure.

Cover API with resizing parameter throws exception

For example, this link which is returned from the API: http://www.firstissue.co/azure/magazinecovers/81cccc3d-29ff-4715-85b1-a66902ef49d8.png?width=512

Gives the exception:

[SocketException (0x274d): No connection could be made because the target machine actively refused it 127.0.0.1:10000]
   System.Net.Sockets.Socket.DoConnect(EndPoint endPointSnapshot, SocketAddress socketAddress) +273
   System.Net.ServicePoint.ConnectSocketInternal(Boolean connectFailure, Socket s4, Socket s6, Socket& socket, IPAddress& address, ConnectSocketState state, IAsyncResult asyncResult, Exception& exception) +584

[WebException: Unable to connect to the remote server]
   System.Net.HttpWebRequest.GetResponse() +8522396
   Microsoft.WindowsAzure.Storage.Core.Executor.Executor.ExecuteSync(StorageCommandBase`1 cmd, IRetryPolicy policy, OperationContext operationContext) +2122

[StorageException: Unable to connect to the remote server]
   Microsoft.WindowsAzure.Storage.Core.Executor.Executor.ExecuteSync(StorageCommandBase`1 cmd, IRetryPolicy policy, OperationContext operationContext) +3465
   ImageResizer.Plugins.AzureReader2.AzureVirtualPathProvider.FileExists(String virtualPath, NameValueCollection queryString) +327
   ImageResizer.Plugins.AzureReader2.AzureVirtualPathProvider.FileExists(String virtualPath) +26
   ImageResizer.Configuration.PipelineConfig.GetFile(String virtualPath, NameValueCollection queryString) +304
   ImageResizer.InterceptModule.CheckRequest_PostAuthorizeRequest(Object sender, EventArgs e) +1092
   System.Web.SyncEventExecutionStep.System.Web.HttpApplication.IExecutionStep.Execute() +80
   System.Web.HttpApplication.ExecuteStep(IExecutionStep step, Boolean& completedSynchronously) +165

Notify of updates to issues

If there's an update to an issue, I need a way to be notified that it's changed.

Perhaps a hash/GUID or last modified date attached to each issue from /issuelist.