Sol Young

I was very pleased by a question in today’s press Q&A at Apple’s iPhone SDK release announcement. I posted the other day about the iPhone SDK being in development since before WWDC ‘07. The question pertained directly to my thoughts, “Why did you change your mind about the iPhone open SDK? How long will apps [...]

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Above screenshot taken from http://developer.apple.com/
The iPhone SDK was released today as predicted. Either there were errors in Apple’s push of the site updates or, more likely, developers are so hungry for this SDK that developer.apple.com is down.
I’ve been hammering on ‘Refresh’ for an hour. Could everyone please stop so I can get started on some [...]

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Developing PC applications on the Mac is great, contrary to what some believe. I too was once in the ‘build-on-the-platform-you-target’ camp. Forget that horse-puckie and get efficient:

Get VMware Fusion: http://www.vmware.com/products/fusion/.
Make sure you’ve got XCode. This will be sixty percent of your development environment and you’ll be coding in OS X.
Install Windows XP or Vista, your [...]

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