Of course, it’s a bit early for a retrospective of 2008, besides which I’ve already written 73 entries this year, my most prolific year to date on iamleeg. And that doesn’t count numerous tweets, stack overflow contributions and of course the occasional piece of source code here or there for some security company. As the noise of fireworks and exploding media players sounds across the world, it’s time to pre-emptively ditch 2008 and see what we can expect from 2009. Specifically, what you can expect from me.
It looks to me like the most popular pieces on this blog are the opinions and how-tos regarding Cocoa development, particularly my thoughts on properties and Cocoa memory management round-up. Don’t worry, there’s definitely more of this coming. As well as preparing for this Mac Developer Network conference talk I’ve been discussing recently, I’ve got another exciting – and unfortunately secret – project on the go now which should see plenty of collateral blog posting in the first half of the next year, all about Cocoa development. There’ll also be a bit more of an iPhone mix-in; obviously for much of last year the SDK either didn’t exist or was under non-disclosure, but now I’ve got more reasons to be using Cocoa Touch it will also be mentioned on here. I shall also be delving a bit deeper into Darwin and xnu than I have in previous times.
One example of Cocoa-related information is meetup announcements; I’m still involved in the local CocoaHeads chapter and I’ll endeavour to post an advance warning for each meeting here. I know many of my readers are in the States but a few of you are local so please do come along! In fact, if you’re not local (or “bissen’t from rond theez partz”, as we say here) then consider going to your nearest CocoaHeads or starting a new one. It’s a great way to find out who’s working on Mac or iPhone development in your area, share tips and stories and build up that professional contacts network.
Previously I’ve been concerned that readers here at iamleeg don’t seem interesting in commenting on my posts, but these days I’m no longer worried. I can tell how many people are reading, and of those how many are regulars, and I have to say that the blog is doing pretty damn well. Of course, if you do feel inclined to join in the discussion (particularly if I’ve got something wrong, or missed an important point from a post) then you should feel perfectly at liberty to leave a comment.
Finally, have a happy new year!
