Getting Started with iPhone Development
This weekend I finally found some time to watch [Bill Dudney](http://bill.dudney.net/roller/bill/)'s screencasts about iPhone development.
The screencast series is called '[Writing your first iPhone Application](http://pragprog.com/screencasts/v-bdiphone/writing-your-first-iphone-application)' and it is an ideal way to get started with iPhone application development.
All you need is a recent version of Xcode and some basic knowledge about Objective-C and Cocoa.
In 2,5 hours Bill shows you how to create a simple but nice recipe application where you can store recipes and its ingredients (sure, it is NOT a full-blown recipe database application but it serves its purpose). You learn a lot about table views, view controllers, navigation controllers and how to store your entered data persistently by using [SQLite](http://sqlite.org/).
I really enjoyed watching it and I'd recommend to write the application in parallel while you are watching it. That way you'll think more about how all the stuff works.
Every episode (five in total) costs $5 but I think it's completely worth the money.
iPhone SDK Beta Out!
Today Apple released a beta version of the iPhone/iPod touch SDK for developers to create their own applications for these devices. The final SDK is about to be released in June this year.
Unfortunately Apple's [ADC website](http://developer.apple.com) seems to be overstrained at the moment with all the developers trying to download the SDK.
Third Party Applications on iPhone and iPod touch
Today, Steve Jobs [announced a native SDK](http://www.apple.com/hotnews/) for their mobile OS X devices (iPhone and iPod touch).
This SDK allows third-party developers to create their own applications running natively on the iPhone and iPod touch.
Apple plans "to have an SDK in developers’ hands in February". Well, that sounds very interesting. 
