"Almost all user facing applications in Mac OS X are written in Cocoa with the exception of a select few. Finder, one of the oldest Carbon applications in the system, is being transitioned to Cocoa for SnowLeopard and much progress has been made in this seed. Please report any issues you find with the new Cocoa pieces of Finder." Much as I want them to FTFF, I very much doubt this will have any useful UI changes.

To look at, especially if I ever get around to doing things with the likes of Starling.

Another interview with the 280 Slides people on their Cocoa-esque JavaScript application framework. Still not publically released, mind you.

Gruber: "maybe even make a clean break and scrap OSA and introduce a new system" Woah, hold on a minute. OSA is great, and re-architecting it would be huge. Also, the Cocoa OSA stuff is now finally mature. Really bad idea.

"Scott Stevenson interviews Aaron Hillegass about the new edition of Aaron's book, programmers' fear of the NIB file, and why there aren't more Macs in corporate America." Random Perl praise in there, too.

"Last weekend, I decided to expand Coverflow to work with my entire photo album. This involved exploring the MusicLibrary and PhotoLibrary frameworks" Oddly, I want my album art in the photos app, but this should be worth a look.

"It basically behaves as the normal Ruby 1.9. For instance, all meaningful tests included in the 1.9 distribution are passing" "a Ruby String object is in fact an Objective-C object of the RBString class." Ulp.

This reminds me that I need to sort out my Ruby linking issues and get one or the other of these working.

On why there's no Perl compiler down to dynamic runtimes, and comparing to the state of Cocoa bridges.

If Apple was serious about JavaScript, wouldn't there be an implementation of Scripting Bridge? (with apologies to Tom, who mentioned the idea on #2lmc) (and I really should check out Drosera)

"So what's it going to be? JavaScript on steroids? Or a secure, small, robust Cocoa-light?" Wil's overly hard on JavaScript ("thrown together by some dudes a couple years ago"?) but then his alternative does sound a lot better.

Interesing post from Sherm Pendley on the Perl/Cocoa bridge CamelBones, Apple, the .scriptingbridge project (in 10.5), and why PyObjC "won".

Could well be useful code, this. I also need to forward it to the Synergy developer. Both AppleScript and ObjC notifications - nice.

"Correo blends technology from two popular Mozilla projects, Camino and Thunderbird, to create a polished native Macintosh application" 0.1 out now. Not for me; I'm still fond of Eudora's UI

An attempt to build a Cocoa stack for Windows. Open source. Could be very cool if it starts supporting enough.

Deep in the guts of Six Apart's own Mac posting tool for TypePad/Vox. I'm hoping I can dredge something useful about the way their API works from this.

Release-ready constraint. Hmm.

I didn't realise how much of an AppleScript interface Cocoa gave you for free. Apple really should be evangelising their own tech, and yes, flipping that switch.

Because I wanted to take the phrase "compilers and other programmers" out of context

How did I miss this? MacHack-style 24 hour apps, source available, and some of them (FFMinator?) look like people could actually use them

I think Blue Coconut could do with this. It looks as if it'll run on 10.3, too, unlike Unsanity's Smart Crash Reporter. So that's nice.

Didn't realise you could launch apps by dragging text on them...

for future reference

For future reference

Could come in handy at some point