CocoaDust

My name is Steve Harris, I run Reinvented Software and welcome you to CocoaDust.

The idea of this blog is to cover things I don’t feel comfortable writing about on Reinvented Blog, including software development, whether for the Mac or the web, software I use or like the look of, occasional industry commentary and the business of being an indie Mac developer, which is probably of no interest to people who aren’t and don’t want to be.

And it’s going to be a little more than that.

This blog will also be written by my friend, Hans Kim. Hans has been a Mac user for almost as long as anyone could be one, works as a User Experience Designer at Yahoo! and has helped me with both my Reinvented Software apps in the past. One thing I never realised was the sheer breadth of knowledge and influence a UED can have on a project, so Hans’s perspective on these things and more should prove interesting.

And this brings me neatly to this post’s anecdote. You may think the name CocoaDust is something plucked out of the air as a nod to the Cocoa frameworks in Mac OS X. Well, it is and isn’t. Inspiration for the name originated in the Ghirardelli chocolate factory in San Leandro and fell from the air to gather as a thin film of actual cocoa dust on the deck of Hans’s apartment, where we first worked together on a Cocoa project back in 2003.

At the time we were thinking of putting some stuff out on the web, including applications, source code, articles, etc. I bought the domain name and never used it. While the idea was not really ahead of its time, it was ahead of our time and only now does it seem to make sense for us to put the CocoaDust name to use here. It only took three years!

For now this blog is a bit basic, but will improve as we develop content, design a proper theme, a worthy blogroll, etc. I thought it was better to get something out there than obsess too much over details in advance. I hope this is the start of something really interesting and a little different, but now this blog is launched it has a life of its own, so who knows what might happen.

Stay tuned!