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Paying It Forward / Paying It Back

As we’re on the eve of Apple’s annual little slice of “nerdvanah” that is WWDC, I’ve been thinking alot about what makes the Mac (and the iPhone/iPad) developer/development community so interesting.
At first blush there’s the inside baseball stuff from Gruber, Siracusa, and the other developers-turned-pundits; there’s the Twitter-banter between  ”super-star” developers like Matt Gemmell and Craig [...]

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Definitive WWDC’10 Parties List

It’s almost that time… and between now and the closing beer bash at the Yerba Buena Gardens (6:30 PM on June 10th), there’s a lot of partying.. er, I mean networking to be done.
Here’s the list of events (both parties and networking events) we know of so far:
I f you know of  more events, please [...]

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Every Good App Should…

If you had to describe the basic functions you would expect all MacOSX apps to provide, which would they be?     I’m not referring to the most basic, capabilities such as  the fact all apps should support (where appropriate) cut/copy/paste/unlimited-undo and the ability to work with multiple documents .. Think about something a little [...]

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Obj-C for WebApps? Say WHAT?

We’re going to break from what has been our (so far) regular format of indie business and code articles to point out an interesting occurrence a couple of nights ago that revolves around two tweets that caught my attention, one by Jon Gruber of DaringFireball, the other by Scott Stevenson of Theococao who are two [...]

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PotionStorefront – In-App Purchase for MacOSX Apps

PotionStorefront – In-App Purchase for MacOSX Apps

URL:  http://github.com/potionfactory/potionstorefront
Code Quality: Production-ready
Dependencies:  A working installation of the PotionStore in order to fetch pricing info for in-app display and to process purchases
Description: From the creator of the PotionStore Rails app, PotionStorefront is a Cocoa framework that makes adding in-app purchase to your OSX applications a 5 minute addition to your code.  Andy Kim’s PotionStorefront is [...]

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I’ve Gone Indie!!! … now what?

So, you’ve made your choice to pursue fame, fortune and adventure and quit your day job!  Or, perhaps like many other sharp techies in this economy, the “choice” was made for you by your former company’s “Reduction In Force;” but either way you’re going to change the world in your new role as an Indie [...]

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Welcome to MacIndie!

Welcome to MacIndie – We’re just getting things under way here, but in a nutshell, the goal of MacIndie to be the go-to resource for Independent Mac and iPhone developers.

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