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• June 11 (submission deadline June 9)
• June 18 (submission deadline June 16)
• WWDC Edition: July 2 (submission deadline June 18)

WWDC attendees are invited to meet Apple's top student developers at the Student Developer Career Reception on Sunday, June 27. This informal event is designed for developers attending WWDC to meet, establish connections with, and recruit students for internships or full time employment. These students have been awarded a full conference pass through an extremely competitive scholarship program.

WWDC Session Descriptions Translated into Japanese

The Kernel Debug Kit contains debug versions of the Mac OS X kernel and many I/O Kit families for use with GDB remote (two-machine) debugging. These files contain full symbolic information, unlike the equivalent files in a normal Mac OS X installation. Also included are GDB macros useful for kernel debugging.

QuickLite 1.0.2 from Tito Ciuro is a Cocoa wrapper for SQLite, the embeddable SQL database engine. It includes SQLite and provides you with a SQL database without running a separate RDBMS process. QuickLite acts as the server itself,reading and writing directly to and from the database files on disk.

eSuite4X 2.8 Web Developer Edition for Mac OS X from InterServices New Media allows web developers to easily install and run a database-driven website. The eSuite4X distribution combines the power of open source products with first-class commercial software to bring you a Macintosh-like user experience. This release includes more than 20 new features.

Mergemill 3.6.3 from Cross Culture Limited is a versatile tool for database or web publishing. It merges templates with content source files to create the desired output. Users may use the free web templates provided to quickly build websites. Version 3.6.3 fixes several bugs.

WebDesign 2.5 from Rage Software is an update to the fully-featured web authoring package for Mac OS X. This new version adds an improved Mac OS X interface with all new icons and less window clutter. It also includes extensive preview options with the ability to preview server side scripting languages directly within the application.

Aqua Data Studio 3.7 from AquaFold is a database query and administration tool that allows developers to easily manage any relational database. This version includes visual editing, enhanced schema extraction for developers and DBAs, and an import tool.

Technical Q&A: Discovering all advertised Rendezvous service types

FileWave X 1.6.1 from FileWave is an automated software distribution tool for Mac OS X. This update includes a number of speed increases to the FileWave XServer and FileWave XAdmin. In addition a new FileWave Booster that is a multithreaded, UNIX based daemon is part of the update. This is a free update for current customers.

Installer VISE 8.4 from MindVision Software is an upgrade to its full-featured installer creator for Mac OS X. This new version includes improved bundle detection and display, advanced drive detection, better error reporting and prevention, and more.

PyObjC 1.1 from Ronald Oussoren provides a bridge between the Python and Objective-C programming languages, allowing the Python programmer transparent accesss to Objective-C-based classes and APIs. The major new feature in this release is full support for Key-Value Observing (an enabling technology of Cocoa Bindings).

For more development tools:
Macintosh Products Guide

Mac OS X Downloads

Technical Note: Tagging Handle and Pointer Data Reference in QuickTime

Technical Q&A: Creating a Movie from Movie Data in Memory

Technical Q&A: Graphics Exporters - Creating 16-bit-per-channel image files

3D Matrix 1.6 from Digital Scores is an easy-to-use modeling package that can act as a gateway to other powerful tools. Targeted towards game developers and graphic designers starting out in 3D modeling, it can also be combined with the with POV-Ray (ray-tracer) and Photoshop for post-production to provide a complete solution for 2D designers.

WebObjects Development (II) June 7-11 in Beaconsfield, Bucks, UK

Cocoa Bootcamp June 7-11 in Atlanta, GA

Advanced WebObjects Development June 21-June 25 in Cupertino, CA

Developing Desktop Applications With Cocoa July 6-10 in Cupertino, CA

Core Mac OS X and Unix Bootcamp July 19-23 in Atlanta, GA

Internet Application Development Using WebObjects
July 26 in Reston, VA
August 2 in Cupertino, CA

Ongoing: Apache Bootcamp

Ongoing: OpenGL Shading Language Seminars

Ongoing: Apple Training Courses

Ongoing: FileMaker Professional Foundation Training Series II

A special hardware discount program is available to ADC Premier and Select exhibitors at several major trade shows.

NEXPO
June 19-22 in Washington DC

National Education Computing Conference
June 20-23 in New Orleans, LA

Apple Worldwide Developers Conference 2004
June 28-July 2 in San Francisco, CA
Hardware discounts for Premier and Select exhibitors

ADHOC/MacHack 19
July 21-24 in Dearborn, MI

NAMM
July 23-25 in Nashville, TN

O'Reilly Open Source Convention (OSCON)
July 26-30 in Portland, OR
ADC Members receive a 15% discount, use code:os4adc
Early Bird registration ends June 18

Siggraph
August 3-12, 2004 Los Angeles, CA

Apple Expo, Paris
August 31-September 4

IBC, Amsterdam
September 9-14 O'Reilly Mac OS X Conference
October 25-28 in Santa Clara, CA

European Revolution Conference
November 14-16 in Malta