ITS ABOUT TIME!

Just watched the iPhone SDK event. Looks really nice, but the parts where Scott Forstall (VP iPhone) talked about the development experience cranked me silly. Here are some quotes:

We started with Xcode, and then we enhanced it to support the iphone. […] the great thing is that Xcode knows all about the iPhone SDK […] so when you are writing applications, it will code complete to the APIs in the SDK.

Oh my God!. Apple, I am humbled by your radical and amazing approach to IDEs.

Project Management [..] it deals with all your files for you. Your source file, header files, … . It also integrates with your source control management system. So be it subversion, perforce, CVS, it integrates directly […]. You can check files in and out, you can merge files, … .

Mmm, how I wish I had this features in my crappy development environment. Apple sure as hell push the limit.

And there are so many more wonderful tidbits like this. “It integrates with the iPhone documentation”, “has a debugger”. The debugger part is amazing, the way it is presented (hard to put in into words) goes like this: It has a debugger. But [wait for it] it has a great remote debugger. Amazing. The limits that Apple are pushing the development experience.

Apple are doing amazing things. But come on, are you joking?

NewsFire, my favorite RSS reader for Mac is now free.

For the past few days, my mac has started to acting up. Kernel panics are happening all the time and I can’t narrow down the cause for it. I have not installed any new software, did not do any hardware changes, and I am not using any external devices. Argghhhhh!.

I followed everything that I can do. Reinstalled OS X, preset PRAM, Zero out format, and nothing helps. The most annoying part is the fact that it even fails during the configuration part that comes after the installation!.

Must be a hardware issue that suddenly decided to creep its ugly head, for reasons waaaay beyond me. Though of course, hardware tests all seem to pass.

So much time wasted on this….

Just came across this little gem called Keywurl. I use keyword based navigation on Firefox all the time, its nice to have it on Safari as well (as I like Safari a bit better… ).

What I am really missing in Mac is the ability to switch tabs using Apple+[Num Key]. I really miss it in Safari, and even more in Terminal now that it supports tabs. This is why I was really happy at finding this wonderful extension allowing to use it in Terminal.