I’m always told to start a speech with a good story, so I assume you’re supposed to start a blog entry with a bad story.

iPhone is a great phone to develop applications for. Unfortunately Apple decided to restrict developing iPhone applications in a less known language called Objective C, which is used pretty much within Apple (and by Apple developers) and almost noweher else. Only Steve Jobs knows the reason behind this strange decision. Java ( J2ME) is the most popular language & platform for mobile development. So Java developers need a way to develop applications for iPhone too by leveraging their core competency.

BWToolkit is a BSD licensed plugin for Interface Builder 3 that contains commonly used UI elements and other useful objects. Using these objects is as simple as dragging them from the library to your canvas or document window.

I’ve been doing Android development for some time, and before that I experimented with Palm and Blackberry, so I figured it was time for some hands-on iPhone programming as well. In this article I’d like to share a few of my initial experiences.

CampMobile is first native Basecamp client that is now available in Apple AppStore. There is a support for viewing/adding/editing/deleting of messages, todo lists, todo items, milestones and comments. All your Basecamp items are saved locally on the iPhone, so you don’t need internet connection all the time. There is a nice Dashboard view and most of the other functionalities you would expect.

I am excited to announce the release of a new Grails plug-in, iUI Plug-in version 0.2. This is the initial release of the plug-in. This plug-in installs the current version of the popular iUI library for developing native looking iPhone web applications. iUI is a combination of CSS, JavaScript and images for simplifying iPhone web applications and give the application a native iPhone application look and feel.

In our performance exploration of Ubuntu we now have additional tests to publish this morning. This time around we're switching out the hardware we're testing on to Intel's newer Core 2 series and we're comparing the performance of the x86 and x86_64 editions of Ubuntu 8.10 against Apple's Mac OS X 10.5.5 operating system.

In our last installment, we began a journey into the world of lowish-level networking on Mac OS X and iPhone. The first tutorial introduced the topic, and delved into Bonjour, which is a framework that helps devices find each other. In this tutorial, we are going to learn how you can make devices connect and talk to each other after they have been introduced, a process best described as ‘messaging’. We’ll be developing some basic messaging classes that will run on Mac and iPhone.

Up until a week or so ago, I’d not touched Cocoa. I’d delved into Objective C a little, and played with Foundation, but that was it.

Apple recently dropped the Non Disclosure Agreement (NDA) that developers had to agree to develop iPhone applications using the iPhone Software Development Kit (SDK). The NDA prohibited iPhone developers from writing tutorials, guides, blogs, books, and even wikis about the iPhone SDK. Since the NDA has been lifted on the iPhone SDK many publishers have announced the release dates of books aimed to assist in the development of iPhone applications. Here is a list of upcoming books devoted to the iPhone SDK...

I love your machines. Truly, I do. Back in 1988 I bought a toaster-model Mac SE, with one megabyte of RAM, and I loved it. It only had a nine inch, black-and-white screen, and I loved it. For various reasons, I sort of lost the love for a while, until 2006. I acquired an iBook G4 in a hardware trade with a friend and I quickly became hooked on the sweet goodness that is OSX. That was in August, 2006. Two months later I bought a Mac Pro, which I love so much I sometimes feel the need to kiss it goodnight.

Using a concept called XMLVM (its opensource!!) its possible to develop java for iphone by cross compiling bytecode.

Describes how you can create double-clickable uninstallers for OSX that just run a bash file. This makes uninstallers ridiculously easy to write and maintain. There's an AppleScript shell that runs the user through a simple uninstall sequence and just executes whatever's in your bash file, and it does it with administrator privileges (with user authentication of course).

Russ Teabeault and I were just talking about our recent experiences with Objective-C and developing applications for either the iPhone or OS X. In general, we both agree that Objective-C is necessary, but painful. The language is quasi-dynamic, not very modern and poorly adopted.

We released an updated installer for Mono 2.0 on MacOS X. This release got delayed because we wanted to upgrade our bundled Gtk# stack to contain the latest release of Imendio's Gtk+ for MacOS X.

There are hundreds of text editors on the market today, and honestly most of them are absolute trash. I know this, because I’m quite confident I’ve tried all of them; I’ve spent 6 years and hundreds of hours installing and puking on crappy text editors on Windows, OS X, and Linux. Without further ado, here are the best for each platform.

Ruby is a dynamic programming language that, over the last few years, has enjoyed enormous popularity, thanks in part to the Rails web framework. Now with MacRuby, you can create Mac OS X applications with Ruby while maintaining the peformance benefits of a fully fledged Cocoa application. This article will show you how to get started with MacRuby and build your first sample application.

If you have been following my tutorials, you know that we have been working primarily with UITableViews. This is mostly because SO many applications can be developed using this simple control. This final UITableView tutorial will be taking all of the skills learned from previous tutorials, putting them all together, and adding SQLite to create a prioritized To-Do list. I will also be showing you how to add multiple columns to your table cells and we will be exploring some of the other controls that the iPhone has to offer. What good would the tutorials be if we didn’t use them to create something useful.

What a difference a few years can make. Case in point: The way you implement mobile solutions for enterprise applications has changed dramatically. What caused this shift? The iPhone did, but probably not for the reasons you expect.

To get some relatively useful numbers and real web experience with the new Flash player, we decided to compare how well the last Flash 9 release for Mac OS X and Linux performed against version 10 on a number of sites. The most significant of these sites is GUIMark, a benchmark that puts various web-based technologies like Flash and Silverlight through their paces, all while providing frame rate averages for the duration of the test.

As a long time developer and Linux user, I've noticed a trend among other users going toward Macs. I've always had a hard time dealing with the keyboard wackyiess and instability (that would even offend windows users) of the Mac. Recent events have presented me with a gargantuan iMac so, I've decided to give it a serious try.

This is a story about how I took an idea and made it into a commercial game. In this article I will try to focus on how to get a game done - a problem many independent developers face. During the development of my game, Asterope, I took a lot of screenshots from many of the development stages that show how the game gradually came to life. Hope you enjoy the read and learn something!

Steve Jobs is leaving Apple. Not tomorrow, but probably very soon. That's why he started to say good bye today, doing something more important than just presenting new MacBooks, MacBook Pros, and an updated MacBook Air.

Today Apple released the new Macbook and Macbook Pro lines of laptops. They are nice, but seem to miss something fundamental for anyone sitting for more than 5 minutes looking at their laptops: matte screens. "Not only every smudge or reflection draws immediate attention, but when pair programming you're constantly face-to-face with your fellow software developers."

I received a tip from Matthias Weflendorf that Apple is using JSF for its online rebate site, which you can see at >. A quick View Source shows the presence of our javax.faces.ViewState hidden field. Inspection of the value of that field leads me to believe they are using Mojarra, but I am not certain. If someone can confirm this, I’d be glad. I've added them to the RealWorldJSFLinks Wiki. Please feel free to add any other sites that you know are usin JSF.