phranker’s Think Tank

I got into the iPhone development community soon after I bought my iPhone. I thought it would be awesome to work with and develop apps for such an amazing phone. I’m sure everyone knows that Apple will be releasing a SDK in February, but I quickly found out that other members in the community put together an open sdk called the ‘toolchain’.

First of all, I am not a mac guy. Never was. Surely have become one  though. I want a Mac bad!! I’m saving some money to get a MacBook or MBP, but in the mean time I figured I’d install and use the toolchain under Linux. It took some time – but I got it. I have a dedicated server setup just for iPhone development. But the more I read, the easier it seems to develop apps under Mac OS, especially Leopard.

Then today, while hanging out at iPhone-Elite in #iphone-dev, a member with the nick Shade posted a link to his filebase which I have to admit is the most comprehensive archive of everything released with in the community. I mean EVERYTHING!!

What he was most proud of is, he finished working on a VMWare image of Debian with the toolchain already installed. That means all you need to do is download the VM Player, download Shade’s VM Toolchain image, and poof… you got yourself a working iPhone development platform.  Pat on the back for Shade