New Site: Cocoa Blogs

I'm very happy to announce Cocoa Blogs, a brand new site designed to track the goings-on in the Cocoa developer community. This is an expansion of the blog listings on the Cocoa Dev Central home page.

Cocoa Blogs Screenshot


The site tackles Cocoa community content from two angles. Featured and Recent Posts highlight current topics of discussion and new (or newly-discovered) tutorials. Featured Blogs focuses on authors with a consistent level of Cocoa and Mac-related content.

I developed for Safari and tested with Camino. The design is a combination of Leopard, MacBook Pro and Bruce Wayne's office.

Donations to Cocoa Dev Central go into a communal fund for the Cocoa projects I work on. In other words, if you donate to Cocoa Dev Central, it directly supports this site. Thanks to all of those that have already done so. Your help made this site possible.

Enjoy, and tell your friends.
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New Site: Cocoa Blogs
Posted Dec 11, 2006 — 30 comments below




 

Daniel Jalkut — Dec 11, 06 2629

What a cool idea. I love the design, and thanks for keeping me in the list :)

Peter Hosey — Dec 11, 06 2630

Woo. This is awesome.

And thanks for adding me. :)

Jesper — Dec 11, 06 2631

Seconding Hosey here, even if I do happen to think that "Blog" is one of the ugliest words in the english language. Would Bruce Wayne refer to the regular Batman or the drunken one? ;)

Ross — Dec 11, 06 2632

That's pretty cool - is it likely to turn into a PlanetCocoa type site a la http://planet.jabber.org/ ? Or some OPML to I can keep my feeds in sync with all of the feeds in the list (as it changes etc).

Scott Stevenson — Dec 11, 06 2633 Scotty the Leopard

@Jesper even if I do happen to think that "Blog" is one of the ugliest words in the english language

Maybe, but "Cocoa Periodically-Updated-Web-Based-Journals" just doesn't have the same ring.

Would Bruce Wayne refer to the regular Batman or the drunken one?

The original one. I think the other would have to be modeled after a bar.

@Ross is it likely to turn into a PlanetCocoa type site a la http://planet.jabber.org/ ? Or some OPML to I can keep my feeds in sync with all of the feeds in the list

We'll see what happens. Some sort of aggregate feed or OPML thing makes a lot of sense.

Jesper — Dec 11, 06 2634

@Scott: "Cocoa Weblogs". ;)

I am sufficiently intrigued to ask: do you manually pick the noteworthy posts? Are they selected through a process not unlike bovine bingo? Is it an ancient Chinese secret, only passed down from father to son through generations? Were all of these options except for the first one a load of hooey (er, or the second one) specifically to pad this comment?

Jeff Johnson — Dec 11, 06 2635

Thanks, Scott! The site looks good.

Or some OPML to I can keep my feeds in sync with all of the feeds in the list (as it changes etc)


On my blog, I provide an opml file for download that contains an extensive list of Cocoa blogs (among other things). The file is date stamped for updating purposes, so I won't link to it here, because the link will eventually become broken.

Rob — Dec 11, 06 2636

กกก WoW !!!

You took my advice about dropout text and ran with it !!

VERY NICE !

Jeroen Leenarts — Dec 11, 06 2637

Indeed an OPML set or RSS feed containing the featured and/or recent posts would be very nice.

Especially a featured post feed would be nice, since reading up on the 12 featured blogs can take a bit of time.

Jon Trainer — Dec 11, 06 2638

Great idea, Scott.

I'd like to echo the suggestion for an rss/atom feed.

Dunk — Dec 11, 06 2639

Dammit! Having just lost my (extensive) cocoa bookmarks list in a nasty HD death, I had just decided (last tues, whilst going home on the bus actually) to start up cocoablogs.com....

Great minds and all that, eh?

D.

Marc Charbonneau — Dec 11, 06 2640

Found it on del.icio.us this afternoon; I wondered why I hadn't heard of it before. :)

Scott Stevenson — Dec 11, 06 2642 Scotty the Leopard

@Jesper: I am sufficiently intrigued to ask: do you manually pick the noteworthy posts?

The selection process is based on an incredibly complicated system of levers and pulleys. In other words: they're all hand picked. I figure if I find them interesting, other people will too.

@Jeff Johnson: On my blog, I provide an opml file for download that contains an extensive list of Cocoa blogs

I just downloaded it and will check it out. As you know, I'm a regular reader (and fan) of your blog.

David Young — Dec 11, 06 2643

Beautiful glossy black, and nice clock. :)

Dunk — Dec 11, 06 2644

Dammit! Having just lost my (extensive) cocoa bookmarks list in a nasty HD death, I had just decided (last tues, whilst going home on the bus actually) to start up cocoablogs.com....

Great minds and all that, eh?

D.

Ankur — Dec 12, 06 2645

Excellent design. It's similar enough to CocoaDevCentral so it's evident they're "brothers" while having its unique blackness. I like it!

B. C. — Dec 12, 06 2646

A new Mac dev blog that you may want to include-

http://briksoftware.com/blog

Thanx for the site, we wish you all the best :)

William Henderson — Dec 12, 06 2649

Perhaps you'd like to include my blog as well? Just another indie mac developer...
http://whenderson.blogspot.com/

Jeff Johnson — Dec 12, 06 2650

As you know, I'm a regular reader (and fan) of your blog.

I apologize that there's been nothing regular to read lately. I started a new job (yay!), so I've been focusing on that. I do have some post ideas in the hopper, though. Anyway, let me know if there's something I can do to help maintain a blog list.

Perhaps you'd like to include my blog as well? Just another indie mac developer... http://whenderson.blogspot.com/

That seems to link to a Bible studies site.

Chuck — Dec 12, 06 2652

That seems to link to a Bible studies site.
Looks like a software blog to me. Are you sure you didn't miss part of the address when you copied and pasted?

Hkan W — Dec 12, 06 2655

Great! But where's the RSS? Am I expected to go in there every day to check for new posts?

Scott Stevenson — Dec 12, 06 2657 Scotty the Leopard

Great! But where's the RSS? Am I expected to go in there every day to check for new posts?

Ten miles uphill, both ways.

Seriously, here's the issue. If there's an RSS feed for all the posts, I feel like the site just becomes a feed server where you bounce directly to the article. I'm not sure that makes sense, but I could see room for an authenticated feed for users who make a donation (DF-style).

Does that seem reasonable?

Jeff Johnson — Dec 12, 06 2659

Looks like a software blog to me. Are you sure you didn't miss part of the address when you copied and pasted?

Actually, I didn't copy and paste. I clicked the person's name. That link has a typo: "blogpsot" vs. "blogspot".

William Henderson — Dec 12, 06 2660

hehe. whoops =)

Rob — Dec 13, 06 2662

The BEST place to Cocoa ???

http://www.cocoafl.org/

B. C. — Dec 14, 06 2688

http://mattgemmell.com

Cocoa & Scotch

Hkan — Dec 14, 06 2695

<i>Seriously, here's the issue. If there's an RSS feed for all the posts, I feel like the site just becomes a feed server where you bounce directly to the article. I'm not sure that makes sense, but I could see room for an authenticated feed for users who make a donation (DF-style).</i>

Well, right now, Cocoa blogs is just a few collections of links that will be regularly updated, right? So if one particular collection (for example "Featured topics") interests me, why can't I be kept updated via a feed?

I don't think you will have to worry about people just reading a post and not commenting, if that's what you mean. Feeds is mainly a way to be notified of new content; if a topic really interests you, you will join the discussion in the comments section as well.

Scott Stevenson — Dec 14, 06 2697 Scotty the Leopard

I don't think you will have to worry about people just reading a post and not commenting

Whether people intend to comment on other sites isn't really what I was thinking. I mean that the site is meant to be more than just a feed service. Will people ever visit the site if it's just a link vending machine? I don't know.

However, if a link vending machine is a service people would be willing to donate for (effectively, the DF model), than the situation is different because it can be used as a tool to fund other related projects.

B. C. — Dec 19, 06 2746

http://yamacdev.blogspot.com/

Yet Another Mac Dev Blog

A new blog, could be a good one. Nice title at least.

Zenith — Mar 24, 08 5687

Nice idea... I visit Cocoa Dev Central quite a bit, so I'll be sure to check here often. I like the style of this page, it's very classy..




 

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