Linked List: August 26, 2008

Tuesday, 26 August 2008

PMC Software: Build Your Bundle 

Buy great software for a great cause.

Update: Hold your horses for now. Seth Dillingham, who put this promotion together, emailed to say he can’t keep up with the orders that have been placed already.

Mike Lee Forced Out of Tapulous 

Here’s the thing about Tapulous. Their apps are good, and their popularity is well-deserved. But they’ve struck me all along as the iPhone development shop that most resembles the dot-coms from a decade ago.

Venture-funded teams that give everything away for free make it hard for smaller indie shops which are trying to turn an honest profit by charging for their software. But they also inevitably wind up being run by business guys, not product guys. Mike Lee is a product guy.

Coda 1.5 

Free update to Panic’s excellent $99 “hyphen-busting all-in-one web development app”. New features include Subversion support, multi-file search and replace, and much-improved syntax coloring.

I wrote about Coda 1.0 in April last year.

Mouse Events in MobileSafari 

Peter-Paul Koch explores the way touch events map to web-standard “mouse” events in MobileSafari.