Thanks everyone whom has attended my workshop session at IP3 Forum. Here’s my slides for you:

Interactive Ontario, in partnership with Bell, is pleased to present the Toronto iP³ Forum — a one-day event that will explore the changing mobile landscape and the business opportunities associated with Apple’s Touch Platform (iPhone, iPad and iPod touch), as business models adapt to a market where people are always connected.

iP³ Forum will be hosted on June 21, 2010 at Hilton Toronto, 145 Richmond Street West, Toronto, Ontario (map)

There will be two spread threads running at the same time, business and technology. I will present a tech session in the morning, the topic is “Mastering Xcode”, in which I’ll talk about the tips and tricks which I’ve discovered in the past years.

Actually, I would change the title to “Mastering Xcode 3″ as Xcode 4 is just around the corner. After play with Xcode 4 for couple of hours, I found that a lot of things have been changed. Luckily most of the tips and tricks I will present will still apply to Xcode 4.

The speakers list for iP³ Forum is pretty impressive, look forward to the event on the next Monday. Hope can see you there too!

Installation

By default it will install into /Xcode4, so you are safe to just click though almost blindly. This could change after the final release.

After install size is 5GB.

Launch

Very unstable, crashed on the first launch, the reason was because of all my existing Xcode 3 plugins.

Crashed again after removing all the plugins. Then succeed on relaunch.

Look and feel

As you’ve already see from the internet, the first reaction is this thing looks more like iTunes than Xcode 3.

Organizer

Organizer has been redesigned from ground up, it’s much easy to find the information you want.

Another very interesting thing for Organizer is Document has been merged into Organizer now, which will help me to have one less window open.

Preferences

Preferences window has been redesigned and simplified, there are only 7 icons you can click on:

Alerts, which is new. Documents, Fonts & Colors, Text Editing, Key Binding, Building and Source Trees.

Workspace

Favorites Bar is gone, replaced with much more useful Tab bar!

“Get Info” has been converted into “Utility” and put into the workspace as right sidebar.

Original “Project” Tree has been converted into tab based navigator as left sidebar.

Alerts

If you’ve already tried “GrowlCode“, this is not new for you. If not, you’ll love this feature.

iPhone Simulator

There’s one new default app in iPhone Simulator: Game Center, can’t get it working though.

All-in-all

Very well redesigned! Very buggy!

“Hacker News” from YCombinator is the major source where I get all the technology and startup news. I love reading it a lot, I’ve even created an iPad app “HackerNews for iPad” so I can enjoy it more.

Couple of days ago, the best update ever happened on Safari, so we can create Safari Extension now!

Here’s my 10 minutes work: “HackerNews OnePage” for Safari: HackerNews.safariextz

The extension only does one thing for now: provides users with the ability to browse Hacker News articles and comments without leaving the page.

How to use it after installation? Just refresh your hackernews page.

This is a port from the great work what Tim Dupree have done on his Chrome extension “Hacker News OnePage“. Thank you Tim Dupree!

Hope you enjoy it!

Short and sweet!

PCMag: Apple iPad video review from PCMag.com Reviews on Vimeo.

This is how TapTapTap designed their iPhone Convert App:

Convert Design Evolution from tap tap tap on Vimeo.

Pretty amazing!

I’ve been using this TextMate shortcuts Desktop Wallpaper for two years already, it’s really helpful, no matter how long have you used TextMate. And, did we missed anything new about TextMate in the past two or three years? I don’t think so.

Snow Leopard is here already, but we still know nothing about TextMate 2.

Download ↓

TextMate Keyboard Shortcuts Desktop Wallpaper 1280 x 800

TextMate Keyboard Shortcuts Desktop Wallpaper 1920 x 1200

Source: Scott Boms

Here are the reasons beside of the awesome 3m camera:

Notes:

1. Peer-to-peer connectivity requires compatible applications, which can be downloaded from the App Store when available.
2. The original iPhone does not support using Bluetooth for peer-to-peer connectivity. It can use Wi-Fi and cellular data networks for peer-to-peer connectivity.
3. MMS is not available in all areas; fees may apply. See your carrier for availability.
4. Internet tethering is not currently offered in the United States and some other countries. See your carrier for availability.

I believe you already noticed the twitter updates on the sidebar. Yes, I am attending WWDC 2009 this week. It is a great conference and I believe you’ve already got the news from it too.

Just a day before I came here, I’ve launched a website for this event:

http://wwdc2009.com

Here’s how it works:

1. I create a new twitter account @2009wwdc
2. I use this account to follow all the people who attend this conference, not the one who just talk about this
3. I’ll follow people who will tweet the important things, especially the kind of people who don’t care NDA that much.
4. Server will automatic pick up who I follow and collect all their tweets and stats
5. Tweets are searchable on the site
6. Will archive the site couple of weeks after the conference ends

If you want to know more about WWDC 2009, it is the site you should go.

Enjoy!

Coda is one of my favorite Editor/Site Manager/Terminal tools. It has everything I need for the web development.

Anyway, even I get no benefits from promoting them, I still want you to know:

Yes! Coda, Transmit, CandyBar, and Unison are 50% off. It’s never happened before, and it’ll probably never happen again. Serious.

• Prices are only valid from 12:01 AM PST May 27th to 11:59 PM PST May 29th.
• Enjoy these apps today and lock in a discount towards any future paid updates.

Enjoy!