(7/8) I have been a major, major slacker on the App list for a long time now, so going to start up again with a moderate schedule of just at least a few entries each day, and see where it takes me.

(6/17) Amazing. "WWDC for everyone." For the first time, Apple has made the WWDC videos available to all developers. You can grab them here. (Quite a big deal, for those new to the platform.) They're also available in record time. This is some serious developer love.

(6/16) Wow, is it really June 16th? Guess it is. Great things afoot in the MacOS / iOS world these days. Xcode 3.2.3 / iOS 4 GM is available for devs (and suggested for all current builds), and Xcode4 Preview is there for those wanting to get a jump on the new dev toys, even including that sense of danger that all Preview releases implicitly come with.

Amazing that it got to the point (600k units sold in a day) that AT&T had to put a hold on iPhone 4 sales. "But i want it NOW!" — Veruca Salt

F-Script hit version 2.1, now including dynamic categories since 2.0.

(5/24) Yes, this site is starting to fall into disrepair. Many things going on on my end. I hope to be able to give it some love soon.

In particular, I need to reorganize the Cocoa Literature page, now that there is a whole different hierarchy of Cocoa topics these days from when it was first created and there was no iPhone.

The other big thing to deal with is what to do with the OS X Application list, which has been sadly neglected in the last couple of years.

(5/10) Long time no speak. I've just updated the front page here to run much faster (was causing troubles from time to time), including a fix for the random apps being shown to the right.

AAPL stock hopping all over the place, along with the world stock market ups-n-downs, only moreso. Hit over $272 there for a short bit, but who knows where things are going.

(4/21) Lots of things happening these days in Apple-land, including the stock almost hitting $260 today. Yow! 2nd largest US market cap, sneaking up on #2 (MSFT) with only a third of the employees.

Last week was the extremely enjoyable and inspirational 360iDev, which has given me some good spring energy to dive into all my coding projects, which are many these days.

In case you are an iPhone/iPad developer looking for a good list of open source projects that you can use in your own work (for fun and/or profit), be sure to check out the resource Open.iPhoneDev.com, started by myself and my friend Joe Pezzillo.

(3/5) So the Apple Developer Connection has ended their long-time ADC Select and Premier membership program after everyone's current membership expires sometime this year.

For now on there are two $99 developer programs, one for the iPhone, one for the Mac. There are no hardware discounts anymore.

(It used to be 20% for anything, then they made all consumer stuff only 10%, then they dropped iPhone/iPods from the discount, and now it's all gone.) This may or may not be cheaper for developers overall, it all depends on the price of the WWDC, of which I have yet to hear any official word.

(2/18) Interesting announcement about SolidWorks as it pertains to the Mac world.

(2/12) Bombaxtic has made a change in their developer licensing, and now Bombax is free to develop on, and then one can purchase deployment licenses. Bombax is a Cocoa / Objective-C web applications framework.

(2/3) Big news for recent iMac users who have seen or are worried about the intermittent display flicker bug that has been plaguing some owners (and I myself saw this problem for ten minutes, and it scared the pants off me) - Apple has posted a firmware update that claims to take care of the problem! Yay. This also points out that while Apple is sometimes publicly responsive as a dead bug stuck in amber for a million years, it is in fact listening and trying to address problems that users have with their products. Nice to know that eventually it all works out (presuming it does).