We write Mac applications at work. We have several ideas for great iPhone apps (not the cheesy $5 ones, but real applications) that we’re working on. We can test on the simulator, yes, and that works most of the time, but it’s not perfect¹ and we do need to test on the device now and again so we decided to get a pair of iPhone 3Gs to start off with and see how the development process was.

First, we approached the local Apple Store’s business contact. He said that they don’t handle business orders for the iPhone at all and gave us a name at AT&T that handles small business orders and said that he’d get us set up. That person would be Christopher Spain. Remember that name, he’s going to be coming up a lot here soon.

So I went back to coding and let my business partner handle all the fun of getting this setup. He called Chris and left a voicemail message that first day. The next day we got some information back about how to get setup.

The Day Job is hiring again and we expect to bring on a couple of folks this time. We’re also opening up to remote workers for this round, so if you’re heathen enough that you refuse to love Austin for the joy that it is, we’ll still love you, just in that red-headed stepchild kind of way.

What would you do? We’re working on a follow-up to Switchblade with some really nice features, Photonic’s 1.1 release is being prepared, and Prosperity is right around the corner. If you know Cocoa, then you can help.

Interested? Apply.

For those that don’t know, I’m a co-founder of Barton Springs Software. We’ve been kind of under-the-radar for the past year or two because we have a lot of projects in development and none really were ready. Well, one is now.

We just released a beta version of our first major product, Prosperity. It’s a desktop personal finance program written exclusively for the Mac and includes the ability to connect to banks that offer OFX servers and download your transactions from them. It, of course, also allows for file imports from QIF and OFX as well as manual entry.

Feel free to get in on the beta by going to the site and signing up for the mailing list. You’ll get instructions from there.

Also, check out the other work blog: BSS Blogs

My day job is looking to hire a good UI Developer in the Austin area. We’re looking for someone that knows how to make a Mac-like UI and solve some real problems with presentation of a large amount of data.

If that’s you, please apply. It’s a big project, and the responsibility will be large, but believe me, this is going to be fun…

To save you a click: you’ll need to not only have an eye for good UI design, but be able to code it as well. Custom views, Quartz, Core Image, and all of that fun will be a daily task, so we’d prefer a pure coder over a pure designer if we had to choose (hence UI Developer). Perhaps Mac OS X Graphics Developer would be more appropriate.

I haven’t written jack crap for weeks now. Not here, not at Mac Geekery, not at After Apple. We haven’t recorded a Mac Geekery podcast in coming on two weeks now. If anyone is following, I’m sure the thought is “He’s gone into hiding again; we’ll see something in two months.”

That’s probably not far from the truth. On the weekends I’m head-first in Notae, trying to get some really cool things going for 2.0 (full-screen editing rocks). On my weekdays, I’m busy with the honest-to-goodness killer application at my little software partnership of a day job. Actually, I just got a couple of breakthroughs in that program and it’s really taking off, so that’s where a lot of my weekdays have gone. It’s quite shocking how much time becomes meaningless when you get into a stride and just start pushing out code that has a real effect on how the program operates.

Well, I’m finally going to WWDC this year. After so many years of trying to land a full-time Mac programming job, it’s finally happened and now I have cause and means to get out there and see it all.

I’ll be at the various get-togethers as well, so if you see a waddling fat guy wearing a brown Duff Beer hat, say hi.

The sessions look great this year, and I have it on authority that there are some very amazing little announcements coming out at WWDC, but, of course, the person could not be specific (nor would I ask that, having worked there). But we’ll all know Monday anyway, so there’s no sense in caring right now when we can just sit tight, eh?