(1/31) Going over the current state of the site. What the role of a website is exactly these days isn't clear. Long ago, in the late '90's, I advocated ditching the browser and going with a plethora of specialty apps, but was beaten down by a lack of universal APIs and protocols. Now there is a preponderance of specialty web apps living outside browser space, in many ways more exciting than websites can ever be, but websites still have a place. And there are web services and their clients. My goal is to figure out what a reasonable and growable combo of assets should be here.

The other thing I want to go into: What is the current state of OS X and its relation to us?

(1/1/12) Things are about to change here. Hopefully for the better.

(9/28) Nice. Mac market share up over the 10% line. I'm not sure i ever want it to be the main OS. A strong 2nd feels right. Just as neat: 3rd place goes to iOS! Interesting landscape these days.

(8/24) So we have officially passed out of the 2nd Era of Jobs at Apple. Thankfully, Apple is as strong as any company could be and Steve need not worry about it. This era has been a wonderful one to be a part of. Steve brought us out of the Dark Ages in consumer computing, which was largely the Windows-dominated '90s, which also saw the destruction of many good companies and OSes. Here's to hoping Steve's health is as good as is possible. He's given the whole world way more than anyone could have expected, from the 1970s to today.

(8/8) If anyone wants it, I recompiled the old PPC/32-bit intel program MyColumn for Lion (also to be 32/64-bit). I tweaked the interface for wide (810 pixel) columns just a tad and fixed a small memory leak. If anyone wants to use it, you can download it here.

I use it for code reviews (which I'm doing right now), because with 2 monitors i can see 4 wide columns of code at the same time. There's no code-folding or any editor niceties available, but it works. I copy-paste from xcode into here and review. It could be many times better an experience, so perhaps someone could make something more of it. Keith has graciously made his code available to tinker with.

(7/20) Happy Lion Day! And the new MacBook Airs and MacMinis look *great*. i5s and i7s all around, Minis even having an option for quad-core i7s. Both sporting thunderbolt. These are no low-end machines, quite to the contrary. Wish I had a compelling reason to buy new gear. I'll let my subconscious rationalize in the background.

Remember that you can only submit apps to the App Stores (Mac or iOS) in Lion by using the Xcode 4.1 GM.

(7/6) Interesting price conflicts in the Apple product line these days, caused by the Mac App Store (MAS). Example: iWork is $80 on the Apple website, but each of the 3 pieces that make up iWork are only $20 a piece on the MAS. A more extreme example: $200 for Aperture 3 on the website, only $80 on the MAS!

(6/17) For the record, that was one of the best WWDCs I've been to. Certainly in the top 3. A lot of fresh new content for developers, I met a large number of people this year, and I got a lot out of the lab sessions. And except for waiting in line for the keynote on Monday, the weather was pretty good too. Capped it off with a nice vacation afterwards. More as my brain wakes up...

(5/5) In case it's easier for people to use, remember or pass along, I gave the Cocoa Literature page its own domain (in addition to also being available here) at CocoaLit.com. Many new articles added recently, and the search results have been improved to deal with weird character encoding issues that were popping up and other oddities of trying to show source code in searches.

(3/27) Hooray! An app I've been hard at work has finally hit the iPhone/iTouch App Store: BookHabit! Many thanks to all my beta testers and my two great graphic designer friends. More to come!