Demoing iPhone apps during presentations is a bitch because Apple hasn't (yet) given us a way to mirror the screen like Steve Jobs does during his keynotes. The alternatives all suck to various degrees: use a camcorder, an Elmo (the projector, not the Muppet), or the iPhone Simulator. The iPhone Simulator is the easiest option and is fine unless you're trying to demo features only found on the device (like GPS, etc.) or make a demo video of your app being used in the field.

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Mogenerator is a very useful utility that creates model classes for you when working with Core Data. I've written about Mogenerator before but what I didn't realize is that I wasn't working with the latest version (the version I was using was 1.6.1 and the latest version as of this writing, compiled from trunk, is 1.13.1).

It's easy to get confused as there are several outdated downloads and project pages floating around the web. It appears, however, that this github repository is where Mogenerator is being actively developed.

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A few days ago I stumbled upon Swiz, which bills itself as the "brutally simple micro-architecture for Rich Internet Application development with Adobe Flex." If the term micro-architecture or the buzzword Rich Internet Application haven't scared you off yet, read on, because it really is a lovely little framework.

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There's an open source cloud solution called Reasonably Smart that uses Git and JavaScript. Two weeks ago, they were bought by Joyent.

Cue the emergence of a viable alternative to Google App Engine.

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I've just tagged Gaebar Beta 3 (version 0.3) in GitHub.

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