uLocate Communications, a Boston-area startup I’ve been involved with since early 2008 has just released WHERE for the iPhone.
WHERE is a location-based application that runs a number of "widgets" to do anything from show you what events are going on around you to help you identify constellations.
My largest contribution to the product was the map [...]

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I went to MobileCampBoston today and gave my talk on iPhone development. I had decided to toss out the slides I made for it, figuring people would be more up for a discussion than an organized presentation…then decided at the last moment to finish up my presentation.
I felt pretty confident after I gave [...]

I’m going to be at MobileCamp Boston this weekend, and I’ve prepared a talk on developing for the iPhone. It’s called “iPhone Development for Earthlings.”
What’s with the title? The iPhone SDK announcement has attracted a lot of developers (and even designers) who are pretty new to all the technologies involved. Things Mac nerds like me [...]

How Pasteboards Work
NSPasteboard is Mac OS X’s mechanism for handling copy and paste, drag and drop, and the choosing of fonts and colors.
When an app needs to take advantage of one of those features, they just call up the appropriate pasteboard. Along with the data to be read or written, the pasteboard stores the [...]