Updated: iPhone OS 4 SDK section 3.3.1 Changes

The brouhaha over the change in the iPhone Dev Program License Agreement should not come as a surprise to anyone. Yes, it proves Apple really wants to lock developers and users into their own extremely high-walled garden. But no, it will not kill any iPhone Cross Compiler platforms.If you haven't heard about it yet, the iPhone OS 4 Dev kit became available this week. John Gruber found an interesting change in the Developer...

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Blogging is hard!

Two months and only two posts. I'm not sure what I was thinking when I started this blog but I was certainly hoping to be more prolific than this. In retrospect I'm not sure why I had this expectation: I never finished my dissertation in grad school and I never published any of my research papers. The problem is that once you've done the research, had the idea or experience that is the germ of an essay, it's over and done with....

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Generating API Docs and the Relative Decline of MS developer tools

Three years ago, when I left the Microsoft/.NET development world for the wilds of J2EE/JEE and the confusing alphabet soup of standards, JSRs, JEE server implementations, etc.  I was expecting poorer quality development tools, much harder to configure servers, and a nightmare of database adminsitration and sub-standard drivers.   A couple months ago I returned to the MS world.  I thought it was just me having a...

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Welcome

So a decade late I'm finally creating a pseudo (or is that sudo?) professional blog. I'm going to use this space to post rants, discussions, investigations or whatever in the hope of working on my writing and perhaps actually communicating something vaguely interesting to people who can't sleep and are addicted to the internet. The primary focus of this blog is the business and craft of software.  But I can't promise that...

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