Quickies

Daniel Jalkut of Red-Sweater scores a hat-trick with three very interesting blog posts. Of special interest to me, is his posting about the redesign of his blog using NodeBox. I actually introduced Daniel to NodeBox, little did I know he’d do so much with it. Very cool.
The Kip is a strange tool for archiving, indexing and displaying PDF files. The interface is quite distinctive and a mixture between iPhoto and del.icio.us. I really like the embedding scanner functionality. See Apple? Not every scanner application has to suck. The Kip is given a yellow card for uploading a bunch of PDFs to my .mac account without asking my permission and unencrypted to boot!
wxHelloWorld is the canonical wxWidgets “Hello World” application inside an XCode project. This version is built using the DarwinPorts wxWidgets installation. I had to struggle to work out how to build wxWidgets based applications inside XCode (although in retrospect it is quite simple). Hopefully this little project will save other people from some of the struggle I went through.
Tom Harrington has announced Sparkle Plus. This is a fork of Andy Matuschak’s Sparkle auto-update framework for Cocoa. SparklePlus is hosted on ironcoder.org and becomes the first Mac OS X open source project hosted by Ironcoder.
An application I’ve been working on has finally left QA and has entered beta today. And there was much rejoicing (until the big reports start rolling in of course).