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ActiveRecord.js is an open source object relational mapper (ORM) for JavaScript that takes a lot of inspiration from Ruby on Rails’ ActiveRecord database access library. In theory, objects are used to encapsulate database access and add domain logic. In practice, you can do things like this: var fred = User.create({username: ‘fred’,age: 32}); fred.username // => [...]

Google has released an eclectic set of tools for Mac and iPhone developers called “Google Toolbox for Mac” in an attempt to share some sample code, conventions, and tools that Google believes Mac developers could use for inspiration. The toolbox is licensed under the open Apache License 2.0 and includes: A Google Objective-C “style guide” [...]

One Juicer is an online application by Two Toasters LLC that enables you to keep an eye out for competing iPhone apps on the App Store. You specify some keywords, provide your e-mail, and you’ll be notified when apps matching those keywords come on to the store. For example, if you have a “guitar” application, [...]

Route-Me is a new, open source map library for the iPhone, built using Objective C and using the fast CoreAnimation framework. It’s licensed under the new BSD license so you can use it for both commercial and non-commercial uses as long as you include the copyright notice and disclaimer in the documentation for your product [...]

If you’re one of those developers who logs in to iTunes Connect ten times a day to keep an eye on the sales figures, AppSales is probably just the tonic you need! AppSales-Mobile is an iPhone app that allows you to download and easily analyze your daily and weekly sales reports from iTunes Connect. You [...]

Cocos2D is an development framework for building 2D games and other graphical applications in Python. Cocos2D-iPhone offers more of the same, but focused at the iPhone and Objective C! It’s open source and makes it really easy to develop 2D games for the iPhone. There’s built-in support for physics (using Chipmunk), sprites, parallax scrolling, iPhone [...]

InfoQ’s Werner Schuster reports on Rhodes, a new open source toolkit developed by Rhomobile that makes it possible to run Ruby applications on the iPhone, Windows Mobile devices, and the BlackBerry. Support for Symbian and Android is set to follow. The code is hosted on Github. Rhodes works by packaging Ruby code with a Ruby [...]

Japanese iPhone developer Ku was struggling to get the hang of the transform property of UIView – and wanted a quick and easy way to manipulate the variables in real-time by trial and error to get a feel for it. He set to work, and the result is UIMonkey, a JSCocoa-powered interactive console for the [...]

Patrick Collison is a Canadian-based Irish iPhone developer who has put together an “API Explorer” for the iPhone. Patrick’s API explorer shows an outline of the iPhone’s classes and uses Objective C’s run-time introspection to present the implemented protocols, methods, and instance variables of every loaded class. Not only that, but in many cases you [...]