Check out the Ad Hoc Packager script I released that is far better than the old bash script.

When deploying beta builds of your iPhone apps, you make what is known is an Ad Hoc distribution. Apple's instructions tell you that you should zip up the Ad Hoc distribution and send it to your testers along with your .mobileprovision file. As John Hartzog discovered, however, using the Compress option in Finder for Ad Hoc distribution has drawbacks so you should use the command line to package up your Ad Hoc distributions.

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Pistach.io is entering beta testing.

You've probably noticed the Pistach.io ad on my site for a little while now. Peter Elst was helping us alpha test the ad rotation. Seb's got his badge up as well and the other beta testers from the Pistach.io Flash Pack will be adding theirs shortly.

So what's Pistach.io and the Pistach.io Flash Pack? We're a group of highly regarded and influential Flashers who are banding together to monetize our web sites in an elegant way: With a single ad, prominently displayed across all of our web sites. (Read more about Pistach.io here.)

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Google App Engine is a massively-scalable all-in-one application, database, and storage hosting solution released this week by Google. And it has me more excited than I can remember in a long while.

Here's how it works:
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