Python is a general-purpose high-level programming language focusing on code readability through it's clear syntax.

• Python - what to use covers the libraries and tools you'd use for API's, Frameworks, Testing (and more) when starting out with a web-based project in Python.

• Deciphering Magic Methods in PHP
• Time Machine: Mount backup disk on demand with some of it covered by using TimeMachineScheduler http://www.klieme.com/TimeMachineScheduler.html
• Fake is a new browser for Mac OS X that makes web automation simple
• The Absolute Minimum Every Software Developer Absolutely, Positively Must Know About Unicode and Character Sets (No Excuses!)
• Getting unicode right in Python
• PlaceTrack is a background Google Latitude updater for iPhone. Sadly seems that they're having lots of issues getting the application approved.
• Unix Permissions by Project Fondue

The MetaWeblog API is a programming interface that allows external programs to get and set the text and attributes of weblog posts. This, along with the Blogger API, enables you to use a desktop or mobile client to manage your entries. As I'm running my own CMS I thought it about time to add a XML RPC service to it which actually turned out to be easier that I thought. I'm able to create and amend entries using the customer headers I need as well as Markdown formatting for content. The most "compatible" client I've tried is MarsEdit as Ecto (for which I have a license) seems to have issues with the CR/LF of the entries (I keep getting lines ending in #13). Obviously something I still need to work on there.

My ultimate goal is to be able to post using the Wordpress iPhone application but it seems to be quite picky in what services the XML RPC endpoint supports. Looking at the source code for BlogDataManager.m checkXML_RPC_URL_IsRunningSupportedVersionOfWordPress: I can see that if requires the following methods:

• wp.getPostStatusList
• metaWeblog.newMediaObject
• wp.getAuthors
• metaWeblog.getPost
• wp.getOptions
• metaWeblog.newPost
• metaWeblog.deletePost
• wp.deleteCategory
• wp.getCategories
• wp.getComments

A call to "system.listMethods" needs to return those, all of which I should be able to hack in there in some form or another. Windows Live Writer on the other hand seems to be behaving a bit strange and won't even return a list of previous posts, something that all other clients have no issue with.

Resources

• Using MetaWebLog with PHP-XMLRPC

Another huge list built up over far too long again.

• iPhone
  • How to Make a Toolbar with UIToolbar
  • Glyphish is a collection icons for iPhone & iPad apps
  • gcons is a comprehensive collection of 100 creative, open source and multi-purpose icons in 12 colours for the web and desktop applications.
  • Icon design screencasts
    • App Icon Design and Resolution Independence
    • How and when to use clipping masks
    • Resizing? Use vector shapes
  • Easy custom UITableView drawing
  • foursquare-latitude is a sample Google App Engine project experimenting in using foursquare, latitude and buzz.
  • Remote Image for iPhone details how to properly download and display images from a remote source without locking up the user interface
  • RestClient now supports OAuth and powers both Buzzie and Latitudie
  • Singletons, AppDelegates and top-level data coverts the available options to provide a single instance of an object in your application.
  • Redirect NSLog to a file on the iPhone
  • Heterogeneous cells in a UITableViewController covers a method in reducing the responsibilities of the UITableViewController when you've got different kinds of cells you need to display.
  • Introduction to MapKit and is also archived locally.
  • Where to implement CLLocationManager is a stackoverflow question with a few good answers that go into Singleton's as well.
  • Hello There: A CoreLocation Tutorial by MobileOrchard
  • Finding iPhone Memory Leaks: A "Leaks" Tool Tutorial covers using Instruments to track down and resolve memory issues.
  • iOS Backup Extractor lets you access items inside iOS backups. Not of much use to me right now as it can't deal with encrypted volumes.
  • Do you know all of the different icon sizes you need in iOS applications? All the sizes of iOS app icons covers them all.
  • If you're needing a reference as to how to create an iPhone API for your web service then you can't go wrong with basing it on MGTwitterEngine. Some great code in there.
• Python and Google App Engine
  • Flask is a web framework (or microframework as they prefer) for Python that at a glance looks like it has some of the goodness of Sinatra from the Ruby side of things. It can indeed be used on Google App Engine with flasktodo showing you exactly how.
  • Django 1.2 on Google App Engine
  • Using the ereporter module for easy error reporting in App Engine
  • If you're after a good example of template filters (which we call View Helpers in Zend)
  • gae-search provides a full-text search service on App Engine but has been superseded by nonrel-search. Perhaps at some stage I'll get around to looking at this in order to port TVScout over.
  • Simple Full Text Search for App Engine
  • TweetEngine provides a good example of various App Engine techniques
  • Screw Multitasking: How To Make Your iOS 4 Apps Exit For Real
• Amazon APIs
  • Product Advertising API and a Python library called python-amazon-product-api
  • Specifically look into ListLookup (This should return a list of ASIN's from the wishlist) and ItemLookup
• get-flash-videos allows you to download or play videos from various Flash-based video hosting sites, without having to use the Flash player. Head on over to github where the development version is held.
• homebrew bills itself as "The missing package manager for OS X" and should apparently make your life easier compared to using MacPorts
• jQuery fundamentals is a free book providing an overview of the jQuery JavaScript library
• An example of time in words
• Inline form validation using jQuery
• The Icon Reference Chart provides details on the icon sizes and usage that you're likely to encounter in your development work.
• Showdown is a JavaScript port of Markdown
• I use SuperDuper! as to perform a clone of my iMac HDD on a monthly basis but recently started failing due to space constraints. If you're wanting to exclude files from the clone then take a look here. For reference my Included Script is "Backup - all files.sdat" and script commands has an "Ignore - Users/alistair/Music/iTunes".
• Rails and OpenID: Start Your Engines details how to power your Rails site using OpenID so you don't have to maintain user credentials yourself.
• Zend Framework Application Patterns at DPC10 features some useful PHP/Zend Framework tips from Matthew Weier O'Phinney and Rob Allen
• Find Current Location in Android
• GPS Logger for Android is a battery efficient code sample that's compatible with Android 1.5 and above
• Google Python Style Guide
• HTTP Scoop is a HTTP sniffer for Mac OS X that passively listens for HTTP requests from any browser (or other application for that matter) running on your Mac
• Charles is a cross-platform (Windows, OS X and Linux) HTTP proxy / HTTP monitor / Reverse Proxy that enables a developer to view all of the HTTP and SSL / HTTPS traffic between their machine and the Internet. This includes requests, responses and the HTTP headers (which contain the cookies and caching information).
• Multithreading For Performance shows you how to create a responsive Android application that won't block your main UI thread.

OAuth is an open protocol to allow secure API authorization in a simple and standard method from desktop and web applications.

If you're looking to find out how OAuth really works then this article, How to build an OAuth consumer, is a must read. It walks you through all of the steps involved in being a OAuth consumer with step-by-step examples to follow along with.

The Google OAuth Playground is a great resource for testing out your OAuth queries to see if the problem is with your library or the OAuth details you've got.

PHP

• Zend, Twitter, and OAuth Made Easy shows you how to "force" Zend_Service_Twitter to be OAuth aware

Java/Android

• Brion-Learns-OAuth is an example of using the Signpost OAuth library in and Android application.

Python / Google App Engine

• python-oauth2 just works perfectly.
• Using python-oauth2 to access OAuth protected resources
• oauth.py from tweetengine is nice in that you can easily create new clients. But beware, I had to do a bit of hacking to force it to urlencode the consumer key/secret.

• GlassButtons for iOS uses public APIs to create native-looking glass buttons. No image files used. Buttons can be created in IB (and configured programmatically) or fully by code.
• android2cloud is a way to push web pages from your android device to the cloud. But aside from that it's also a good example of how to combine Android, Google AppEngine and OAuth

• A Beginner's Guide to Design Patterns explains why design patterns are important along with some PHP examples
• CSS Media Queries & Using Available Space is an excellent article demonstrating how to use CSS to alter your document depending on the available width. Useful for re-positioning items etc
• ButtonMaker is a simple iPhone App (simulator only) which uses undocumented APIs to create UIGlassButtons, and then saves the images for the button, and its selected equivalent in the application's documents
  directory.
• MapKitDragAndDrop is designed to bring drag and drop support to MapKit on iPhone platform, with just one single lightweight DDAnnotation and DDAnnotationView, users are able to drag and drop annotation pin and get the new coordinate
• Developing iPhone Apps with iOS4 SDK, Deploying to 3.x Devices : Base SDK and iPhone OS Deployment Target explains that Xcode 3.2.3 only comes with support for SDK's 3.2 and 4.0 but shows how to target earlier releases
• inessential.com: How I Manage Memory from Brent Simmons explains how he eases his memory issues in Objective-C. Follow up here and here
• Conditional iOS3, iOS3.2 and iOS4 code shows you how to determine which version of iOS you are running on as well as explaining how to write a macro that can both conditionally compile and runtime switch between the code for different versions of iOS.
• Create an Apple folder using the Apple icon on iOS4
• How To Use the Three20 Photo Viewer in your iOS applications
• Sencha Touch is a HTML5 Mobile App Framework that allows you to develop web apps that look and feel native on Apple iOS and Google Android touchscreen devices.

• How To Integrate iAd into Your iPhone App while at the same time maintaining backwards compatibility with iOS 3.0
• Send websites and docs to iBooks by creating an alias to iTunes in ~/Library/PDF Services

• Making an iPad HTML5 App and making it really fast
• Getting started with developing Safari 5 extensions
• MagicPrefs is a free menubar and preference pane application for OSX which aims to improve the functionality and configuration options of the Apple Magic Mouse.