Apple's insistence on keeping iPhone 2.0 development under strict non disclosure agreements is frustrating efforts in the development community to share ideas, teach classes on iPhone development, and print reference books on the subject.

In terms of web design, Apple.com is a very good exemple of clean semantic code and stunning graphics. Here’s 5 high quality tutorials to design like apple.com and recreate Apple’s menubar, breadcrumbs, stylesheets…

I’ve seen many people comment that they’re going to spend a few days learning Cocoa (from scratch!) and be able to come up with an application that will make them oodles of money.

How two programmers knowing nothing about Objective-C or the iPhone SDK won a little iPhone dev competition at last weekend's iphone dev camp in Amsterdam.

Application development in Xcode is, by necessity, a really unusually good exposure to MVC patterns.

Looking for a way to see how your web creations will look on iPhone? Look no further. iPhoney gives you a pixel-accurate web browsing environment—powered by Safari—that you can use when developing web sites for iPhone. It's the perfect 320 by 480-pixel canvas for your iPhone development. And it's free.

Trying to avoid VNC+SSH on Linux but need a remote-desktop solution? Try out the free version of NXServer, here's a 5min guide on how to get it setup and running on Ubuntu and Mac.

A comprehensive walkthrough of setting up an OS X Leopard machine with the latest versions of our favorite F/OSS webapp stack.

To help facilitate user testing, I've built and posted OpenJDK 7 binaries for Mac OS X 10.5 here.

I don't think I've ever been as conflicted about something as I am about the iTunes App Store. There are so many intersections at which it is both the best and worst at the same time that I'm having an incredibly hard time sorting out how I feel about it.

I’m in the middle of building an iPhone app (for eventual distribution in the App Store) and, given what happened recently with NetShare, I took a moment to step back and see just how much control Steve & Co. have over the potential livelihood of iPhone developers. It turns out, being part of the iPhone Developer Program is a bit like tuning in to the Outer Limits.

Lets start with installing the basic Erlang runtime.

I’ve always been a fan of smart phones, and for the most part I’ve been a Microsoft faithful (there was that brief moment back around 2000 though when I bought a HandSpring). I was loyal to Microsoft’s form factor because those devices supported Microsoft’s Compact Framework (a mobile version of their full-on .NET Framework) which allowed me to have programmatic fun-time if I ever wanted, in an environment that I was already familiar with. However, there are 2 things that have changed for me over the past couple years.

A story about PhoneGap, a free open source development tool and framework that allows web developers to take advantage of the powerful features in the iPhone SDK from HTML and JavaScript.

There are wars fought world wide over arbitrary ideals, developers will be the first people to tell you that. Why can't we apply the same unbiased principles to ourselves?

Ruby pops up in some recent software provided or used by Apple. The iPhone Configuration Web Utility for Enterprises is built on Rails. SproutCore, which powers the client side of Apple's MobileMe, uses Ruby for tooling and Merb for static content generation.

Reading typical pro-Apple drivel is quite a common experience for anyone who frequents websites like Digg or Reddit, or the internet in generel. So no matter, I’m used to seeing and ignoring the irrational attacks Microsoft gets and the unconditional praise Apple is lavished with but on this case I have to reply, and kick some uninformed ass.

A long-time friend and co-worker wants me to help him prototype a web application. I started on web app programming but most of my time now goes into Cocoa. So every once in a while I stop back in to see what's up. SproutCore and has recently popped up as a great client-side framework, but that's only half the equation.

Flash'In'App is a free Cocoa framework that lets you load and fully manage Adobe® Flash movies directly from your own applications for Mac OS X. Flash'In'App contains a set of classes, which provide any application with the abilities to play SWF files, manage their playback, communicate with them via External API, FSCommands or Variables, control external resources loading, and much more.

I with many have been a believer in Java on the client. I was excited to learn at JavaOne 07 about JavaFX, and even more excited by the great demos at JavaOne 08 dealing with Java 6u10 and JavaFX. But then... I am a Mac user. And as many of you Java Mac users know we have been very frustrated by the lack of understanding about the Java SDK path and now JavaFX on Mac.

Encapsulate everything! Right? Or not. I was watching the Cocoa developers email list today and saw a post asking for help getting two views to communicate between one another. Having been a Windows programmer for longer than I’m willing to admit, I recognized the question as it was one that I also had when I moved to Objective-C on the Mac. I think I can ask the question more succinctly now than I could then. Better phrased it would be “I have a dialog object that I instantiated and obtained some data from the user with it. I now need to get that data out of my dialog object back into my main window object where I can do something with it. How can I get the information back into my main window from the dialog?”

we need more than Apple's official app store—we still need jailbreaking, Installer.app (now Cydia) and the best unauthorized third-party apps to make the iPhone an ultra-powerful open platform we really want.

Apple.com menubar is really an exemple in terms of clean, semantic code and very cool design. In this tutorial, I propose you to recreate Apple’s website navigation bar and study the techniques used.

That means that all of the BSD Java changes, including the SoyLatte Mac OS X port, can now be sent to the OpenJDK project, and an official BSD porters group can be proposed

Geeks and enthusiasts wearing Wordpress t-shirts, using laptops covered in Data Portability, Microformats and RSS stickers lined up enthusiastically on Friday to purchase a device that is completely proprietary, controlled and wrapped in DRM. The irony was lost on some as they ran home, docked their new devices into a proprietary media player and downloaded closed source applications wrapped in DRM.