Mac Developers Blog

The Cocoa Open Xdrive Framework

john — Mon, 01 Oct 2007 11:09:39 +0000

AOL’s Open Xdrive provides users with 5GB of free online storage. In my AOL blog this week I discuss the development of the Cocoa Open Xdrive framework, that allows Mac developers to integrate access within their Cocoa applications. Read about it here!

Elephant’s Pajamas a Video Joke of the Day Widget

john — Fri, 28 Sep 2007 11:33:59 +0000

My article on the development of Elephant’s Pajamas was published on the AOL Developers website. Elephant’s Pajamas is a Mac OS X Dashboard widget, powered by AOL Truveo, that provides access to funny joke videos. Truveo is a one-stop destination for searching video resources available all over the Internet, including AOL Music, AOL Video, YouTube, CNN, NBC, Fox News, and much more. Elephant’s Pajamas uses the Asynchronous JavaScript and XML (AJAX) API provided by Truveo to search through all the funny joke videos available from the resources aggregated by Truveo, and then randomly select one video, which the user can view in their Web browser. Click the video below to see the widget in action!

Building a Dashboard Widget for Open XDrive

john — Sun, 23 Sep 2007 20:33:40 +0000

5GB of online storage - for free! That’s what AOL’s Open XDrive delivers. On my AOL Developers Blog I recently wrote an article where I show the beginnings of a Dashboard Widget which shows your XDrive drive usage. What would you like to see added to this Widget - let me know and it might be added in future revisions!

AIM For Your iPhone

john — Wed, 12 Sep 2007 14:12:49 +0000

There is so much happening in the world of iPhone development recently. From iPhone unlocking to the over 50 native applications now available for your iPhone.

On my AOL Developers network blog I recently wrote a posting showing you how to get Installer.app and ApolloIM (a native iPhone application that provides instant message!)

AOL Truveo Dashboard Widget

john — Thu, 23 Aug 2007 14:01:15 +0000

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

iPhone Two Way Video Conferencing

john — Tue, 14 Aug 2007 01:02:14 +0000

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.

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Leopard Early Start Kit - Now Available!

john — Sat, 11 Aug 2007 02:18:23 +0000

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. (more…)

Mac OS X Java Development and Eclipse

john — Fri, 10 Aug 2007 00:45:38 +0000

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). (more…)

Welcome Mac Developers!

john — Fri, 10 Aug 2007 00:30:12 +0000

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!

Welcome…

admin — Thu, 09 Aug 2007 23:54:20 +0000

Welcome to the Mac OS X Developers blog!