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My name is Stijn Van Minnebruggen, I'm a developer at These Days Antwerp.
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Hm… Seems like I’m only posting movies lately. Anyways, here’s another great, inspiring talk from Cabel Sasser, at C4[1] 2007. Cabel is a co-founder of Panic inc. Panic is well known for it’s Apple software like Transmit and Coda. Best Mac apps ever. If you’re a Mac developer or just interested by Panic, check out the video below!
Busy times. Since the day we decided to get married I haven’t had the time to finish off some of my projects. I’ve got several ideas for iPhone apps, but with each new feature I add, a week passes by. That’s because I’m still learning the basics of Cocoa and the iPhone SDK. Unfortunately everything has to go fast these days, especially on the web. Most ideas are only good for a couple of weeks/months and it’s best to keep it a big secret until the launch (the Apple style). It’s important to have time on your hands and the skills to put your ideas into practice asap. I’m not going to keep my project a big secret until launch, because it’s just a big experiment and most of all an exercise for me to learn Cocoa.
My Coffee Counter app is just a button and a counter. But during the development process I’ve added some neat features like twitter support and location services. So if you just drank a coffee and add it to the app, it would know where you drank it and twitter it automatically. The only thing I would have to do is to make a site where all coffees are grouped on a map like the Smule project. Sounds cool, now I just need to find the time to make it all worth more than words.
(photo from sharaff on flickr)
One of my favourite Mac apps has just been updated. Coda is a web development application for the Mac and is super cool. Now with subversion it ‘ll be even better. It’s a free upgrade — full release notes here. At the moment loads of people still use TextMate but now they might switch. TextMate is really good too, it’s less sexy but it has more features and is a bit cheaper. So now that Coda has source control built in, it’s almost at a position where it has everything I want included. Just add code completion like Eclipse does and it’s perfect!
