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I’m sure the pun between the acronym for “NeXT Interface Builder” and this definition of “cocoa beans” is intentional, but it surprised me anyway:

A watch might be one of the most common types of objects, but it remains also one of the earliest pieces of human craftmanship to show an extreme level of complexity, all contained in a small amount of space. Since the late 1700s, artisan watchmakers in Switzerland and elsewhere have shown their pride and skills [...]

Available right now:

Click on the “Applications” item in iTunes, and you’ll see this at the bottom of the screen:

Clicking there, you’ll get to the App Store:

Seen in the preferences of iTunes 7.7, just released via Software Update:

When enabled, it adds the following icon to iTunes:

(Highly geeky post ahead. You’ve been warned!)
I have found the very message that summarizes the beauty of Cocoa in a single word; see by yourselves, hereunder in line 47:

#import

// The interface of a person
@interface Person : NSObject {
NSString* firstName;
NSString* lastName;
int age;
}
@end

// The [...]

Version: 1.0
Author: Adrian Kosmaczewski
Date: May 18th, 2008
Programming Languages: JavaScript
Tools: Prototype
Platforms: Web
Live Demo: WWDC Calendars in iCal format
Download: wwdc2008.zip
Licence: MIT License
Apple has published the official WWDC schedule, in a very nice JavaScript table, but they haven’t included the same information in iCal format (the “ics” files). The script generates that information, taking as a basis [...]

I find many similarities between an event like WWDC and a similar one I’ve attended at Redmond long ago; both are big (huge!) events, with thousands of (men) engineers from around the world (and very few women), with a keynote by the founder, lots of events every morning and afternoon, and merchandasing stuff all over [...]

The keynote is over, and I’m on the 2nd floor of the Moscone Center sipping a coffee and thinking about all the stuff that Steve and his team just presented:

The new iPhone 3G with GPS will go live on July 11th in several countries, including Switzerland! And best of all, the price of the 8 [...]