Archive - August 2013

Hello, and welcome to our weekly roundup! Undoubtedly, the biggest news this past week is that, after 13 years as CEO, Steve Ballmer will be stepping down for the top spot at Microsoft in the next 12 months. Although revenue at Microsoft has quadrupled under Steve, the stock price has declined 40% from January 2000 - August 2013. To be fair, though, that includes external events like the dot-com bubble bursting. If, instead, you look at the period from January 2002 - August 2013, the stock has...

Welcome to our weekly roundup! We have a ton of great controls and links for your reading pleasure today, but I want to highlight one link that I thought was particularly interesting. Last week, I read about a new Kickstarter project for GNUStep, a project that's been around since 1998, which offers LGPL-licensed reimplementations of Apple's core OS X frameworks, up to the 10.5 APIs. Gregory Casamento, one of the key p...

I've been spending a lot of time lately watching WWDC 2013 session videos and working with new frameworks and APIs in iOS 7, like [redacted], and I'm realizing just how big a deal iOS 7 really will be in terms of the capabilities of the platform and the depth and breadth of apps you'll be seeing appear over the next couple years.

And I'm not even talking about Apple's seemingly inevitable destruction of the classic video game console space, either! That's another fascinating arena: I...

Hello, and welcome our weekly roundup! If you haven’t been to the Apple Developer Center lately, you should go take a peek.

Meanwhile, I’m very excited to see that Kathy Sierra is blogging and tweeting again. If you’re not familiar with her, you owe it to yourself to a) follow her on Twitter, b) subscribe to her blog, and c)