Yummy FTP has quickly become my favorite FTP/SFTP client for the Mac. I like it so much, I even bought it! This client is packed with some great features like fast threaded transfers, failure auto-recovery, uploading from finder, auto-upload folders, directory synchronization, scheduling and remote editing.
CrossLoop is a free, secure screen sharing utility designed for PC users of all skill levels. Screen sharing is a useful utility when try to troubleshoot PC problems from a remote location, like those times when your friends need help removing viruses and spyware!
Mac only: Textmate Shortcuts Desktop Wallpaper is a handy wallpaper for those of you who are just beginning to learn the powerful code editor for OSX. If you want to add your own favorite shortcuts, the author has made the PSD version available.
During my recent trip to SXSW, Dustin Diaz introduced me to a new and powerful editor for Windows. E-TextEditor is a TextMate clone for Windows that shares many of the features found in its Mac father. Features like support for TextMate bundles, commands and bundles could make this a nice option for those of us who have to develop on both Apple and Windows platforms.
The Amazon Web Services Developer Connection site has a great tutorial that will show you how to Mount Amazon S3 as a File System in Amazon EC2. S3 is Amazon’s distributed storage service and EC2 is their distributed, virtualized server solution. In the past it was difficult to have persistent storage in EC2, but now using S3, persistent storage is possible.
You’ve been eagerly waiting to get your hands on Adobe’s Apollo product and now you have it. So what do you do next? Here is a list of URL’s where you can find some great information, sample AIR files and tutorials:
Good luck building your first Apollo app!
Lynda.com has added the Apollo Alpha Preview to it’s training library and they have made it free to the community in celebration of the release of Apollo. The over one hour of online training features Mike Chambers, Senior Product Manager for Developer Relations.
Adobe has just released the first public alpha of Apollo. Apollo is a cross-platform runtime environment that allows developers to leverage their existing web development skills (Flash, Flex, HTML, JavaScript, Ajax) to build and deploy rich Internet applications (RIAs) to the desktop. I have been playing with private builds of Apollo for about 6 weeks now, and I must admit that the Apollo/Flex platform is way too much fun! I hope to release my Twitter client over the next few days. I plan on releasing the source so you can check out how easy and fun it is to create Internet connected desktop applications.
Apollo for Adobe Flex Developers Pocket Guide - an ebook by Mike Chambers, Rob Dixon and Jeff Scwartz - is now available for download from Adobe Labs. Hopefully this means we’ll be seeing an alpha release in the next few days.
The “Works on My Machine” Certification Program is a rigorous certification program that provides you with the credential to prove to your product manager that, indeed, your code does work on your machine.
