Evening at Adler

On October 21st in the year of '05, ten top Mac developers (primarily indies) from around the USA were invited to the Adler Planetarium in Chicago, IL for an evening of conversation around a broad range of topics: Making a living writing for the Mac, software patents, competing with Apple, digital rights management (DRM), software activation, bugs, Ajax, unit testing, building communities, the x86 transition, and much much more... This was recorded, and the video and audio are now online.

Bob Frank

The author of Log4Cocoa, and founder of Chicago's Cocoa and WebObjects user group (CAWUG), Bob is highly active in the Cocoa, WebObjects and Java communities for the Mac, and is currently an engineer at Apple Computer.

Jason Harris

Through Unsanity and Geekspiff, Jason is the author of a whole slew of Mac software. There's ShapeShifter, MightyMouse, ThemePark -- tools to customize the look and feel of your Mac -- and Chicken of the VNC, an open source and lightweight client for connecting to remote computers.

Nicholas Jitkoff

The author of Quicksilver for OS X, which is dubbed "An evolving framework for accessing and manipulating many forms of personal data." It's very, very hard to try to describe Quicksilver, but when you do the words "interesting" and "innovative" are sure to come up.

Paul Kafasis

Paul co-founded Rogue Amoeba before he'd finished college, and as CEO has gone on to make it one of the larger success stories in independent Mac software. Primarily known for innovative audio software, they've racked up too many awards to count.

August Mueller

Gus's company, Flying Meat, Inc., hit my radar like a rock after I was exposed to a personal wiki solution for Linux called 'Tomboy'. I went looking for an equivalent for OS X, ended up finding VoodooPad, and instantly put my brain in it. Oh, and then there's apps like FlySketch and FlyGesture.

Eric Peyton

Originally of Epicware, Eric was also the originator of the open-source'd Fire.app, which was one of the pioneers of multi-protocol instant messaging for the Mac. He's active in the Cocoa and OSS communities, and currently works for Apple Computer.

Jonathan Rentzsch

One of the Mac's rare Doctor Whos, Rentzsch is the creator of the OSS software mach_inject, among others. He also owns Red Shed Software, which primarily works on projects for companies large enough they won't let him talk about them. (DB Interview)

The Rosyna

It's really, really hard to describe The Rosyna, but I suppose "Anime-loving, sexually-androgynous opinionated programmer for Unsanity, currently responsible for FontCard, Silk, Menu Master, CEE PEE YOU, etc." might work.

Wil Shipley

Self-described "ladies' man" and "stylish shirt-wearer." Wil is also the owner of Delicious Monster, makers Delicious Library, which won an Apple Award for "Best Mac OS X User Experience" at WWDC 2005. Wil may or may not be leashed. (DB Interview)

Brent Simmons

Known as the godfather of RSS on the Mac, Brent runs Ranchero Software with his wife Sheila, which is responsible for growing NetNewsWire and MarsEdit. Currently, NetNewsWire has the largest marketshare of any desktop news aggregator on any platform. (DB Interview)

drunkenbatman

Some guy with a website...

Header image credit to JC Burns, among the hundreds of other Evening at Adler Photos.

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