O’Reilly’s MacDevCenter used to have much more in-depth articles on Apache, Cocoa development, Database and Systems administration, but now it is all about conferences and Aperture. Seems like they have forgotten the “Dev†in the sites name and are getting it mixed up with their other Mac site over at Digital Media.
That stream of great articles that were written after I got my first Mac (TiBook with 10.1) has died off. And that includes the practice of updating older articles after an update or new release of the OS. The newsletter hasn’t been updated since August of 2005 and even the list of contents in the sidebar has been absent for sometime (below is a copy of what used to be in the sidebar with links to each category, grabbed from The Internet Archive).
Derrick Story please bring back the MacDevCenter to it’s former self.
Content:
• All Articles
• Apache and Web Serving
• AppleScript
• Cocoa Programming
• Database and Sys Admin
• Designing for Aqua
• Developing for Mac OS X
• Digital Photography
• Email and Related
• Inside Mac Radio
• Java on Mac OS X
• Mac Weblogs
• Mac OS X Conference
• Mac OS X Innovators
• Music and iTunes
• Networking and Wireless
• Product Reviews
• QuickTime and iMovie
• Terminal App and Unix
• Switch to OS X
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I contacted them about this in early December and I was told: “Not to worry. We’re doing some work on the site, but it’s coming back strong very soon…..”
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