Hey, I'm the subject of the August MacTech Spotlight, which is a one-page Q&A that MacTech magazine does every month with a different Mac person. I was pretty surprised and pleased to be asked. Heck, I was excited when AppKiDo got a one-sentence mention in MacTech back in 2003.
My friend Hiro took a bunch of photographs (thanks, Hiro!) and I picked one to submit along with my interview answers. In retrospect I'm not sure I picked the best photo, so I'm relieved that it was cropped so I don't look too much like one of the prisoners in that "Thriller" video. (I'm wearing a bright orange shirt.)
One thing I mention in the interview is that I'd like to do some blogging about programming. I'll be getting around to that Real Soon Now; stay tuned.
Another thing I mention is that I'm adding support for the iPhone SDK docs to AppKiDo. That's basically done, but there are two issues that may hold up its release:
- I'm not sure how the UI should combine the iPhone docs with the Mac OS docs (I can currently browse one or the other, but not both).
- I'm paranoid about violating the NDA.
I don't know if in some bizarre legalistic sense AppKiDo would be "discussing" the iPhone SDK, though in my opinion that would be quite a stretch. I sent a question to Apple and hope to have an answer soon. I can imagine one approach that I think would be on safe ground, but it puts a bit of burden on the user so I'm not sure I like that approach.
In the meantime, I might release an update without iPhone support, since there are significant fixes that shouldn't have to wait. Again, stay tuned.
[UPDATE: The interview is now online.]