I’ve just released Mac Widgets for Java 0.9.3. The major addition is iApp style scroll bars. You’ll find the full list of enhancements and fixes here.

Two years ago, I raised a few points about some of the short comings of SWT. Because of it’s native bindings, SWT makes the Java mantra of “write once, run anywhere” quite a bit more daunting. For the most part, SWT’s cross-platform support is actually quite good and it is a decent in terms of performance.

One on the Mac, and one on the PC. First, the Mac.

"I have an idea for an iPhone application." The most common conversation I have with people these days concerns the process of turning ideas into iPhone applications. Someone reaches out to me from across the Internet, hoping I will be able to build an iPhone application or make connections to people who will.

This post covers the bare bones basics of what you need to get up and running with Git as your Source Control Management (SCM) software when developing with Xcode.

This is the 3rd in a series of 5 posts about an iPhone programming course I’m taking this week. The course is presented by Big Nerd Ranch. To make things more interesting I’m writing about how iPhone development differs from Android development, a subject with which I’m more familiar.

It’s day 4 of a 5-day course on iPhone programming. As before I’ll be sharing my observations from the classroom on how development on the iPhone compares to Android development. The class is presented by Joe Conway from Big Nerd Ranch.

Did you know Leopard comes with versions of Ant and Maven out of the box? You probably do if you are using something post 2.0.6 – odds are your project probably died when you upgraded! Here's how I went about getting things fixed.

“This downturn may also present some extraordinary opportunities for companies that have the cash to take advantage of it,” Jobs said.

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.