CocoaDevNation

Late Night Cocoa Touch is a new podcast from The Mac Developer Network run by Steve “Scotty” Scott. It’s apart of the premium podcasts produced over at MDN, but the first 3 episodes are going to be free.

I’ve listened to the first episode, which features Scotty and Bill Dudney having a nice discussion about the features of the upcoming 3.0 OS release. They can unfortunately only talk about the parts that were mentioned in the Apple presentation, but nonetheless, they provide excellent commentary on the coming goodies.

If you haven’t signed up for the Mac Developer Network yet, you really should. Scotty is producing some great content and I think deserves the support. He’s introduced shorter term memberships (3 and 6 month) as well as making every third episode free. Keep this great content coming by supporting his efforts.

Red Sweater Software has released MarsEdit 2.3 to the world. The biggest new feature is Tumblr blog support.

MarsEdit provides a great local editing experience for crafting your blog posts on your Mac with all the features you’d expect from a Mac application. Save drafts, access your media, preview mode, etc.

MarsEdit is my tool of choice for creating blog entries and it should be yours too.

Martin Pilkington over at M Cubed Software has put out the following challenge to his fellow Mac Developers:

“By the end of 2009, all the apps I produce will be fully accessible”

The accessibility he’s talking about is for users with disabilities, such as blindness or deafness. Certainly something to think about when writing your own app.

Craig Hockenberry over at furbo.org has posted a great script for changing to the Prefrences directory in the iPhone Simulator for your app as well as opening files from the Documents directory. This is without having to guess what the GUID of your app is. Thanks for sharing Craig!

Kevin Hoctor and Danny Greg over at cocoaFusion: have released episode 5 of their great podcast.

This episode covers Kevin and Danny discussing the finder points of several things developers don’t always agree on. Particularly the new dot syntax for Objective-C 2.0 as well as variable naming to get it started.

Be sure to subscribe with the iTunes link.

The Pragmatic Programmers are quickly becoming the place for Mac and iPhone Development information. They are publishing a bunch of books and now screencasts to help developers get up to speed quickly with Cocoa and its supporting technologies.

This past week, I bought the “Becoming Production in Xcode” screencast with Mike Clark and found it to be a great resource for all sorts of productivity tips.

Coming from my Java background, I had gotten very use to using IDEA from JetBrains. The switch to Xcode has been a bit painful trying to get my file/code navigation skills back. These first screencast showed me all the bits I need to get back to the productivity I was used to for navigating code. The second one provided me all the information I needed for all the text macro things I was missing. As well as showing how quickly and easily it is to get the new clang code analysis tool integrated into the build process.

The screencasts are worth the $5 each (for a total of $10 for both episodes). I highly recommend you pick them up. I’m sure even a veteran of Xcode would find something new in there they weren’t aware of.