Linked List: August 28, 2008

Thursday, 28 August 2008

BBEdit 9 

Now this is the good stuff. New features include Projects, an outstanding text completion feature (automatic, explicitly invoked with a keyboard shortcut, or both), and, at long last, the ability to edit text directly in search results and disk browser windows. Oh, and the UI for projects and disk browser windows has been completely modernized — if you like the way Yojimbo looks, you’re going to like BBEdit 9.

I’ve been beta testing it for months; it’s simply a fantastic upgrade.

Buzz Andersen on Funding iPhone Development 

Buzz Andersen:

Funding has its place, but, realistically, how many application ideas that could actually be implemented with the iPhone SDK require the level of up-front investment that would make the tradeoffs of venture funding and the overhead of a large organization necessary? Not many people, in my estimation, are building anything for the iPhone that requires significant research and development, infrastructure, or engineering resources beyond a few capable coders with a good work ethic. By taking money from other people and assembling a whole team you always run the risk of compromising your vision, which, after all, is what working for yourself is all about.

I couldn’t agree more.

Fuck the VCs 

John Casasanta on VC funding for iPhone developers, and the hype they’re fueling.