Last week AOL relaunched Truveo.com - a one stop place to search and browse the millions of videos available on the Internet today. Truveo searches metadata associated with video hosted around the Internet, producing some of the best video search results available.
I recently wrote a blog entry at the AOL Developers site showing you how to begin integrating the Truveo API into your own Dashboard Widget. You can read that article here: http://dev.aol.com/node/589
The folks at ecamm developed a iPhone two way video conferencing application which won the Iron Coder live event today. The Iron Coder Live event and C-4has developers come up with creative hacks in a short time frame.
If you weren’t able to make the WWDC and snag your copy of Leopard beta, Apple has released the Leopard Early Start Kit with Leopard beta. In addition to the beta, the package includes access to an exclusive collection of digital resources and information, including WWDC07 Leopard Videos that contain tech talks and more, an updated Leopard Dev Center that includes Beta Reference Library documents, guides, release notes, sample code, and more. There’s also a collection called “Coding Headstarts” that provides video, a lesson guide and sample code. Continue reading »
I recently wrote an article for IBM DeveloperWorks about Java development using Eclipse under Mac OS X. While the Java development environment is fully integrated into Mac OS X, the Eclipse integrated development environment (IDE) brings a fully integrated Java development environment to Mac OS X that provides a consistent cross-platform experience. The article shows developers how to: import existing Xcode projects into Eclipse, tweak key bindings, and integrate Eclipse with the Mac OS X-bundled Concurrent Versions System (CVS). Continue reading »
The best place for me to begin is to introduce myself, and give you a little background. I am John Fronckowiak, the President of IDC Consulting, Inc. and a Clinical Assistant Professor at Medaille College in the Computer Information Systems department. I have over 20 years of programming experience. I’ve provided consulting services for a number of companies, and I’ve written over a dozen trade computer books. I’ve also written for Microsoft, IBM, and Apple.
I am a switcher to the Mac platform. While I have used and developed for the PC platform since the DOS days (and stil continue to on the XP and Vista Platforms with Visual Studio .Net) I have come to love and embrace the OS X platform. I hope to provide to you my insights on Mac development - from applications, Widgets, XCode, Dashcode, Cocca, Carbon, AppleScript, Objective C, Java, Ruby, to the iPhone - we’ll cover it all here at the Mac Developers Blog!
I hope you enjoy the ride!