MacIndie

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 [...]

NSLog is not just useful for printing out your variables in the heat of a debugging session – for instance, did you know you can get NSLog to spill the beans on the line number you’re on in the current method, or the path of the current file?  There are a number of compile-time macros [...]

Ever notice how bogged down your development can get when TimeMachine wakes up every hour or so and scans all of your disks looking for things to squirrel away into its backups?  If you have a lot of disks and do a lot of compiles the conflict between the Xcode and TimeMachine can slow your [...]

URL: http://github.com/lukhnos/objectiveflickr
Code Quality: Production (used in several shipping apps)
Description:
ObjectiveFlickr is a set of Objective-C libraries by Lukhnos D. Liu that impement the Flickr APIs and allow you to access flickr public resources using an API key obtained from the Flickr.com web site.
ObjectiveFlicker can be used for both iPhone and MacOSX applications; it’s an asynchronous API so [...]

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 [...]

URL: http://github.com/kballard/feedparser
Code Quality: Work in Progress (working, well documented/commented and in use by shipping apps; may need to be customized depending upon your specific needs)
Description:
FeedParser, by Kevin Ballard,  is an NSXMLParser-based RSS and Atom feed parser for MacOSX and iPhoneOS.  It parses a number of commonly used RSS elements (title, link, links, content, pubDate, creator, author and enclosures – it can be pretty easily extended [...]

URL: http://github.com/mattball/MBCoverFlowView
Code Quality: Demo/Proof of Concept (will need customization in your apps)
Description:
MBCoverFlow view is an Open Source (MIT Licensed) implementation of Apple’s cover-flow which is seen in iTunes and, under 10.5+,  as one of the views possible when browsing files in Finder windows.

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 [...]