Today FileMaker, a wholly owned subsidiary of Apple, best known for its professional database products, entered the indie software market. Or at least, that’s what their new public beta, Bento, reminds me a lot of. It diverges from Apple style by showing all its warts in a public beta: a sort of clunky-yet-intriguing interface design, […]

As luck would have it, Storie di Apple just published a great interview with my friend Drew Thaler, so I get to take a much-needed break from talking about myself. Discs, filesystems and Macs – Interview with Drew Thaler Some really fascinating stuff, particularly if you’re interested in historical perspective on the transition from OS […]

Austin Heller recently interviewed me and has just published the results. An Interview with Daniel Jalkut I like the interview format because it takes all the work out of blabbing my mouth off! It’s sort of like blogging, only I get to talk about several things at once, and don’t have to think of the […]

Iron Coder 7 is coming up, and Jonathan Wight just announced that the top prize will be an iPod Touch! In other news the contest will run over the course of a week this time around, instead of the usual 48 hours. I am going to need something to develop my iPhone/iPod applications on pretty […]