Well, I’m not going; are you? This year’s Apple World-Wide Developer’s Conference was sold out by 8am Pacific Time, having gone on sale around 6am. (I missed the boat in 2011 and 2010, too.) I can’t imagine anyone except perhaps Apple thinks that the mad scramble to the keyboard that we’ve experienced in the last few years is a rational

Brent Simmons has a very good piece about switching away from using Core Data to using SQLite directly in his iPhone app. Substituting “any common ORM” for “Core Data” (which, after all, is all Core Data is) and “any SQL database” for SQLite, he encounters the most common problems that plague those trying to develop scalable solutions on top of

I have multiple reactions when I read that extremely talented Macintosh developers are boycotting the iPhone App Store.

First, I agree completely with the essential issues. The rejection and approval process is not one that inspires the least bit of confidence, especially for those developers who might write exactly the kind of high-investment, sophisticated application that is

The iPhone developer program is now officially uncool, since they let me in. I guess I have to upgrade to Leopard now.