Year: 2010

Apress’s latest book “Objective-C for Absolute Beginners: iPhone and Mac Programming Made Easy,” (http://www.apress.com/book/view/1430228326) is written for those who have never programmed before. Author Gary Bennett shares his formula for success in four tips for brand-new programmers:

° Learning to program is an interactive process. Code, code, and keeping coding. The more you code, the better you’ll get. Like learning to play an instrument, you have to practice.

SeedCode has released an iCal server for FileMaker, Zulu (http://www.seedcode.com/zulu), a collaboration with the developers at 360Works. Zulu is a server-side plugin for FileMaker Server that lets iCal see your FileMaker data as iCal calendars.

You can edit your records in iCal and from the calendars on your iPhone and iPad. When you do, you’re editing the FileMaker records directly. iCal will even respect FileMaker’s record locking if someone else is editing the record when you try to do the same.

REAL Software — creator of REAL Studio, a cross-platform software development tool for Mac OS X, Windows and Linux — has announced a new platform for their development tool, the web, which will be available in REAL Studio Web Edition.

Jumsoft (http://www.jumsoft.com) has updated its selection of free products for Apple’s iWork with 10 new Keynote themes. The popular Goodies collection of exciting design templates, themes, images, and 3D objects is available for download for free.

The themes contain up to 20 master slides, which include a mix of bulleted text and photo-oriented layouts. The 10 Keynote themes included in the Goodies feature IT-related images, nature motifs, various patterns, and other design elements.