Back in March last year, when the first version of the iPhone SDK beta appeared, I downloaded it, installed it, and hid myself in my room for a whole weekend in order to dig into it. Back then it wasn’t possible to applications test on the iPhone itself (except for those lucky few, who were allowed to join the Developer Program), and given the reports of differences between the real device and the simulator I decided against continuing iPhone development until I could test on the device itself.
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The NY Times is reporting that Steve’s rumoured health issues seem to be more complex than initialy thought. Thus Steve will take a time out until June in order to treat the ‘hormon imbalance’.
Let’s hope that we’ll see a healthy and fit Steve Jobs at this years WWDC.

via the New York Times

Many developers often face the tedious task of collecting difficult or complex code sequences in some sort of library or list. Most development environments already feature the one or other snippet function to allow for including this task into the workflow. This doesn’t work out though if you work with several programs or even do things via ssh in VI or Emacs on remote systems.
Enter Code Collector: An application focused on the sole task of collecting, keeping and sorting your snippets, functions or code sequences. It nicely integrates into OS X to help in collecting code from different applications as well as inserting it:

Code Collector Pro looks after all your code snippets, letting you quickly reference them whenever you want. With support for Smart Groups, Tagging, TextMate Bundles and much more Code Collector Pro is the best way to store, organise and share code snippets on the Mac

Find the App here

Last year Nokia aquired the Norwegian company ‘Trolltech’ in order to gain access to their very popular cross plattform framework ‘Qt’. Qt builds the foundation for the KDE desktop and has been able to gain a lot of very attractive developer features over the years. Just recently they added a strong graphical framework which comes in many ways very close to CoreAnimation (or rather the CALayer technology sans the animation features). One strong argument for Qt are the cross plattform possibilities. Qt works on Windows, Linux, Mac OS X and several mobile devices which makes it very, very interesting for developers toying with the idea of cross plattform development.

One severe problem has always been the restrictive Qt license. One could develop for free, as long as the resulting application was going to be released as open source. As soon as one would develop a commercial application, one had to buy a rather expensive (especially for indy developers) license.

Long story short: Nokia just released Qt under the LGPL license which means that one can build commercial applications using Qt, without having to buy said expensive licenses.
This would allow many a developer to start developing his new application cross plattform instead of focusing on just one plattform. All in all, this could result in a greater variety of new Mac OS X compatible applications, as the usage of Qt for a Windows application would automatically result in Mac and Linux versions as well.

TUAW has a small article mentioning at additional leakage and rumours hinting at a possible iPhone Nano. As I wrote just some days ago, I doubt this due to the fact that Steve won’t be at MacWorld Expo. There’s something I’d not thought about though. Maybe the rumours regarding Steve’s pancreatic cancer really are closer to the truth than we fear. So my take is, that if there’ll actually be an iPhone Nano, it could be considered as a solid point hinting at a worsened situation regarding Steve Jobs health.
A new Mac Mini, a new iMac, sure, that could be a Phillnote just as well – but the iPhone, Steve’s Wunderkind?