October 22 - 3:25pm EDT   Absoft has announced a new plug-in for Apple's latest development platform, Xcode 3.1. The Absoft add-on lets users program in Fortran within Xcode, via support of the company's special IDE. Both 32- and 64-bit compilers are present, and users additionally have access to Absoft's Fx3 debugger, MRWE framework and third-party libraries. Resulting programs can be composed entirely of Fortran, or a mix of Fortran and C++. [full story]

August 28 - 3:50pm EDT   Bare Bones has released v9.0 of BBEdit, its text and code editing software. The key addition to the software is said to be the addition of Projects, which replace file groups, and allow users to directly create, delete and rename files and folders. The contents of Projects can be searched, as well as processed through text factories. [full story]

July 24 - 10:25am EDT   Absoft has announced significant gains in debugging Fortran code on the Mac platform when combining its Fx3 debugger with Apple's recently released Xcode 3.1 update (which provides additional debugging capabilities to developers). The combination of the two tools allows developers to view and modify values of program variables, which can be located in COMMON blocks, allocated in static storage or declared in Fortran 90 modules. The tools can work in both 32- and 64-bit executables and are multi-processor aware. [full story]

July 12 - 2:30pm EDT   Apple has released an update to its developer tools, Xcode Tools 3.1. Xcode 3.1b was previously available as part of the iPhone SDK and is now as a standalone package for Mac OS developers as well. Addressing security issues, the new update fixes an arbitrary code execution and a WebObjects session ID disclosure. Requirements for Xcode tools 3.1 are an Apple Developer Connection membership and OS X 10.5 or higher. Xcode is available for Mac OS developers and as part of the final iPhone SDK; both are free for ADC members. [updated] [full story]