Software Development

Osterville, MA., July 1, 2008-- Savant Systems LLC, with a visionary approach to control and home automation that emphasizes reliability and a maintenance-friendly open platform, announced its new Savant Open Developer Alliance program. The program was previewed and available to developers who attended Apple's Worldwide Developers Conference (WWDC). Now for the first time, all Mac OS X developers can apply to join the alliance and create applicable Automator Actions that integrate with the Savant home automation and control platform based on Mac OS X.

Apple has released a new build of the iPhone SDK, Beta 6 Build 9M2192. This version requires Mac OS X 10.5.3, which was released earlier today.

The Association of REALbasic Professionals, or ARBP, is an independent organization whose purpose is to unify the profession by providing continuing professional and educational development and contribute to the community's well being by acting on behalf of its members. The Association was formed at the REAL World developer conference in Austin, TX, in March, 2008.

iPhoneDevCamp 2 is an upcoming not-for-profit gathering to develop applications for iPhone and iPod touch using both the native SDK and web standards. This is a follow-on event to the first iPhoneDevCamp, held in early July 2007. Adobe Systems has agreed to provide the venue again this year.

Lingoport's internationalization experts are partnering with the translation team at ENLASO for a live WebSeminar: teaching you how to internationalize effectively by avoiding iterative and expensive delays to global software releases and revenue. Lingoport, Inc., a leading provider of internationalization services and partners ENLASO Corporation, a leading provider of translation and localization solutions, today announced that the two companies will present a live training course.

Apple has confirmed that their Worldwide Developers Conference has sold out for the first time in its history.

"Response to this year's WWDC has been off the charts and we are delighted with the show of enthusiasm and support from the developer community for the new iPhone SDK," said Apple spokesman Bill Evans, according to Macworld on Wednesday.

Apple wouldn't say how many developers registered for this year's WWDC, although recent WWDC events have attracted about 4,000 developers.

CUPERTINO, California--May 13, 2008--Apple today announced that a team of Apple executives, led by CEO Steve Jobs, will kick off the company's annual Worldwide Developers Conference (WWDC) with a keynote address beginning at 10:00 a.m. on Monday, June 9, 2008 at San Francisco's Moscone West. This year's WWDC will showcase two revolutionary development platforms, the ground-breaking innovations of OS X Leopard and OS X iPhone, the world's most advanced mobile operating system.

David Alison recently decided to learn Ruby on Rails. This article covers the early stages of that learning experience and has some book recommendations that are helping him get started.

David Alison tries adding Ruby on Rails Development to the list of things he has switched to since getting his Mac.

The Fast Icon has released "Mask Icons", a collection of 4 freeware icons.

The Mask Icons was inspired by some great tribal masks and is available for download as standard Mac or Windows icons as well as a handy PNG files for linux, web or blogs on FastIcon website.