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March 06 2008
The iPhone SDK is here (sort of) and that's certainly no reason to whine. But it has a few ugly dents in its shiny new coat: Apple takes a 30 percent cut from developers selling apps. Imagine what would happen If they would do that to artists in the iTunes… read moreNovember 25 2007
Top European developers have banded together to offer a Mac software feast under the headline “Give Good Food to Your Mac” to holiday shoppers over the next ten days. In contrast to other deals in the past, this one offers a steeper discount the more products you choose. A kind… read moreOctober 17 2007
The big news of the day is of course Steve Jobs announcement of an iPhone SDK for February. I am very excited about this. It is an important signal to the Mac OS X developer community that Apple values our commitment to Mac OS X and rewards us with letting us… read moreOctober 16 2007
Am I the only one who wonders how they got this headline past Steve? read moreThe real reasons Leopard is late
April 17 2007
In case you haven’t seen it: The Joy of Tech’s “The real reasons Mac OS X Leopard is late…” I like the “Someone keeps pressing the Time Machine button..:” reason best. read moreApril 08 2007
It will be tough for the Boinx Software team to get to WWDC this year - at least if we follow the Google Maps directions: (Item 33: Swim across the Atlantic Ocean; Thanks to Michael for finding this gem.) read moreWhat's Cooking Revisited (and a bit on iTunes DRM)
April 03 2007
A couple of days ago, I wrote in “What’s Cooking?” about the lack of Apple news for the Mac. In the meantime, I’ve had time to ponder this with colleagues and friends and today I found a weblog post from early March by Thomas Fitzgerald with an interesting theory: Apple… read moreMarch 12 2007
I am getting a little jittery here. I’ve just checked the Apple PR archives and it’s true: The last significant Mac news dates August 7th, 2006 when Apple announced Leopard and the MacPros. (The Apple TV is not Mac news, it’s iTunes news.) That’s 7 months! Since then: iPod, iPhone, iTunes. Ah,… read moreCocoaDevHouse Munich Feb. 24th
February 07 2007
Boinx Software is proud to co-host the second CocoaDevHouse Munich with TheCodingMonkeys at our offices on Feb. 24th. If you happen to be in Munich, Germany on said Saturday, drop by to meet interesting people and have fun. read moreFebruary 07 2007
…are coming to a sad realisation - Cancel or Allow?” Ok, seems I lost that bet (for now). But - this is the truly best ad dialog I’ve heard in a long time. read moreRentzsch: "Programmers Don't Like to Code"
February 04 2007
Very good read. Wolf is right to point out that programmers write code out of necessity and that rewriting helps them to understand how it works. But why are developers keen to type their code? Why have visual programming languages not found a greater following? Why are text editors currently… read moreJanuary 19 2007
Episode 1 of Steve “Scotty” Scott’s Late Night Cocoa podcast is now available. He writes: The eventual goal of the podcast is to present fairly in depth discussion of cocoa topics such as Core Data, Bindings etc. However I also felt it would be good to kick off with something a… read moreLee Falin: How I got started in Cocoa Programming
January 18 2007
A post from a while ago, but nevertheless a success story for O’Reilly and MacDevCenter: It all started last October. I was working in a typical Microsoft IT shop, and one of my asperations was to start my own software company. I had been reading Eric Sink’s Business of Software… read moreMac OS X Downloads @ apple.com
January 13 2007
Largely unnoticed and without much fanfare, Apple finally made some changes that are going to be very beneficial to Mac software developers: The Mac OS X Downloads page got a makeover, complete with RSS feeds, a top downloads section, staff picks and recently added sections. And, after just 4 or 5… read more
