A note from Steve Jobs was posted to Apple’s hot news page today. In it, he promises that an SDK for the iPhone will be available in February. He proclaims:
With our revolutionary multi-touch interface, powerful hardware and advanced software architecture, we believe we have created the best mobile platform ever for developers.
Developers everywhere [...]
Alex Iskold, founder of AdaptiveBlue, consistently churns out articles that provide interesting and thorough analysis of trends in technology. His latest, on the future of software development, continues that pattern.
Software engineering is a complex process. Business requirements, customer requests, and engineering timelines all have to be reconciled. Often the problems are not [...]
The first ever Treasure Island Music Festival was held this weekend. The two-day event had a dance vibe on Saturday and an indie rock theme on Sunday. I took part in the festivities on the final day.
As the name suggests, the event was held on Treasure Island, which sits in the San Francisco [...]
Adobe announced today that they are adding H.264 support to Flash Player. H.264, a standard for video compression, is getting a big boost, as Flash Player is the most widely deployed platform for rich media on the web.
Read/WriteWeb spoke to Mark Randall, Chief Strategist for Dynamic Media at Adobe, who claimed that this [...]
Apple held a press conference today where they announced a few product updates, including iMac, iLife, and iWork. .Mac also received much needed enhancements, including more storage capacity and deeper iLife integration through Web Gallery.
While the new features are welcome, I personally will not be making much use of them. For my purposes, [...]