CocoaRadio
Although I try to keep the daily flood of information coming at me in check by avoiding to subscribe to podcasts, there are some that do interest me. One of them is CocoaRadio, which features occasional interviews with Mac programmers. In the episode from August 1, 2005, Fraser Speirs made a couple of statements that express my own motivation to work with Mac OS X and to develop software for it quite well:
OS X is a platform where people tend to craft their own tools.
His desire is to create tools for other people with a focus on user interaction and interface design – basically to make people happy. If more programmers would make this a top priority, “ordinary” computer users would be spared much stress …
Here are some links that I especially noticed today: Two very useful sources for Cocoa programmers having technical questions, cocoabuilder.com and cocoadev.com; and 43folders.com, a website on productivity, time management and much more.