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As I’m sure you’ve heard, Apple’s World Wide Developer’s Conference (WWDC) kicks off on Monday, and expectations are very high. Swirling around the web are lots of WWDC rumors guessing what Apple will do and anticipating with excitement the possible hardware announcement, but I want to spend a little time… Continue Reading »

I can count all of today’s iPhone app announcements on one finger. But the single announcement contains three games, so I’ve tricked you! And on the Mac side MacZOT almost earns a hat trick with two announcements, both of which are about software sales. In fact, so is the iPhone… Continue Reading »

It’s Friday, people. There are supposed to be this many iPhone and Mac updates on Friday. You can turn your iPhone into a gun, which frightens me just a little bit. You can also turn it into a rather polite alarm clock. You can’t turn your Mac into anything, but… Continue Reading »

It’s been called the “Chinese Democracy” of the Apple community by Andy Ihnatko. The book that we all knew Sal Soghoian, Apple’s product manager for AppleScript, would someday write, though we waited and waited. Well, that day has come, and thankfully it doesn’t share a whole lot more in common… Continue Reading »

In Chapter One of my Developing for the iPhone series, I shared some thoughts on the genesis of every project; the big bang for the entrepreneur, the idea that supports everything else. I also stated what I feel to be a truthful fact about the significance of the idea, and… Continue Reading »

When it comes to developing for the iPhone, there’s no dramatic change in comparison to any other software development project. Aside from the technical aspects of programming for a mobile device, general guidelines have to be followed in order to achieve the highest chance of success. This is the first… Continue Reading »

In a previous post, I wrote a little bit about the activities involved in the management of collaborative work using Subversion. That post was completely server-side oriented.  Now, I’d like to address the other side of the coin, the client side of Subversion. I’ll be describing the most common activities… Continue Reading »

Nowadays, every experienced company or group of people dedicated to software development knows there are a lot of variables to handle when you work on a project from a collaborative point of view. The project leader has to handle every detail regarding time, costs, human resources, deadlines and quality of… Continue Reading »

IconFactory makes a great universal tool for designers called xScope — for people who constantly use this kind of tool, it’s a worthwhile investment. But, a new app now gives you similar functionality — for free. Rulers provides a subset of xScopes useful features in an easy-to-read format. Photoshop-style rulers… Continue Reading »

Although very few details about Mac OS X v10.6 Snow Leopard have been released, Roughly Drafted has supposedly uncovered some more tidbits and features.  As many of you may already know, one of the main features of the latest big cat is Grand Central. Grand Central is a thread management… Continue Reading »