I was honored to be a guest on Scotty’s excellent Late Night Cocoa podcast.
Those of you who have been regular listeners will notice that my episode is about twice the length of most of the previous episodes. What can I say? I like to talk.
This episode will be of interest (I hope!) to any developers hoping to gain a better understanding of adding scripting support to your Cocoa applications.
Guy English, a developer for Rogue Amoeba kicked off a new Mac development blog this week. Whoo! Looks like a nice addition to the Cocoa Blogs landscape.
A couple Stanford students run this entrepreneurship podcast. Looks like a good addition to the listening lineup especially if you’re a fan of Entrepreneurial Thought Leaders or similarly inspirational business-oriented podcasts.
Cocoa developers looking to integrate with Flickr might find some help from this framework, which packages Flickr’s API in an (allegedly) convenient format for Objective-C or Ruby programmers.
The test blog for changes I’m making to MarsEdit to support the “New Blogger” API. This should be music to the ears of would-be MarsEdit users who are waiting for such support. Stay tuned, it’s moving along pretty well and I hope to have more news to report next week. Vox will hopefully be soon to follow.
If you just can’t get enough of my opinions on MarsEdit, the state of blogging software, etc., you should check out the latest MacUser Podcast, featuring moi!
This is the first podcast I’ve appeared on (another one coming very soon at Late Night Cocoa), and after getting past the “hearing yourself recorded” hangup, I’m pretty pleased with my performance :)
Thanks Dan & Derik for inviting me on the show.
When the news went out last Thursday that Red Sweater had acquired MarsEdit, the reaction from the public was just amazing. I’ve never heard so much positive feedback in a single day. People are excited about MarsEdit, and they’re not afraid to let me know :)
How am I going to reward users for their enthusiasm? By releasing updates. With fixes. And features. And stuff. It’s been four days since the acquisition, and I’m happy to announce the immediate availability of MarsEdit 1.1.3, a free update for all registered users.
MarsEdit 1.1.3 is mostly a “bug-fix and rebranding” release. All the little spots where the app takes you to a web page or whatnot are now updated to point to Red Sweater instead of Ranchero. The release includes three pretty significant bug fixes. Two that should please long time users, and one that might prevent scaring off new ones!
Another exciting change in this release is the addition of Sparkle for automatic software update support. I’ve tweaked the basic Sparkle Plus profile information so that users can, if they choose, include information not only about their computer and operating system, but about the blogging systems they’ve set up blogs for in MarsEdit.
So now when you “Check For Update,” you’ll also be sort of voting for your preferred blog systems. This isn’t about winning or losing, but about allowing me to be pragmatic in choosing which features to prioritize in which systems. Not to say I won’t look at support for new systems, but I’m very interested to see what current users are running, so I can do everything possible to keep them satisfied.
The Red Sweater Blog features updates about our apps and articles about related topics.
