Ramblings of a Programmer

The latest stable build of the Eclipse 3.1 code path is now available for download. If you are doing any Java development on the Mac, you should check it out.
Eclipse 3.1M7

Apple has posted some Dashboard sample code
to demonstrate to developers how to do certain techniques in their
widget applications.  Currently, there are only three examples
posted, but they deal with things like DHTML, stretching, and fading.

Are you interested in doing software development on the Mac?  I am
going to play around with Java when my Power Mac gets here next
week.  I am also thinking about playing around with Objective-C
and Cocoa, especially after reading the article at MacZealots called Beginning Mac Development.  It is a fantastic overview for getting started with development on the Mac.

A new tutorial and a reference document for using Core Data and creating an application using Core Data has been published on Cocoa Dev Central.

Apple has released a Java update for Mac OS X 10.3.9 to fix systems
that may have some issues with Java applications and Java-enabled web
sites when using Safari.  You can get more information from Apple's site for the update.

After installing Mac OS X 10.3.9, people started having issues running
when Java applications or visiting certain web sites.  Apple
recognized this issue today and has posted an update to fix this issue.