I’ve seen so many developer blogs around these days, I started to feel like “Why don’t I have one too?”. After having read Andy Matuschak’s blog regularly and sneaking into various other Mac OS X Developer blogs from time to time, I eventually decided to put up one myself.

A few words on myself

Well, when I was 9 years old I began to program. Starting with BASIC and switching to REALbasic later on I made my first steps and learned some of the principles of software engineering. When Mac OS X 10.0 finally came out and old Project Builder started to become stable and reliable, I decided to move on — leave REALbasic and give the new Objective-C as well as the new Cocoa API a try. I have to admit it was hard work learning Objective-C, not having had any C or C++ background, just BASIC in my mind.

Since my first steps in BASIC, 9 years have passed which makes me 18 years old, having 9 years of experience in software development, as well as probably 7 years of Cocoa experience.

So why launching a Weblog anyway?

A few years ago, when Apple started this whole Podcast-thing in iTunes, I came across this great Podcast by Blake Burris, “CocoaRadio”, which I felt was just great to listen to — hearing all those other developers talk about their problems and experiences, as well as their software.

Two years later, Steve Scott started his gorgeous “Late Night Cocoa” podcast which is now part of the Mac Developer Network. The show was great, having software engineers speaking about basic as well as more advanced topics concerning Mac development, directly addressing development issues.

In what I remember was the fourth episode, Scotty interviewed Scott Stevenson — who I haven’t known back then — about new Leopard features. At the end of the show I picked up his blog address (Theocacao.com) and started to read it. Later on, Andy Matuschak joined the show talking about his updating framework Sparkle, also leaving his blog address (andymatuschak.org) at the end.

That somehow pushed me into reading weblogs, which I now do on a fairly regular basis. I was overwhelmed by the quality and beauty of some of the programming blogs I’ve read. The Mac OS X developer community is just great, and growing rapidly as well, therefore I thought about trying to “give something back to the community”, publishing my developing experiences.

What “The Axamblis Blog” is all about

In order to publish my software projects, I started “Axamblis” which now acts as some kind of pseudonym. Some of the topics that I will deal with are

• thoughts on Axamblis and the projects I have
• articles on Cocoa
• Xcode and Interface Builder
• the Developer Tools
• general Mac OS X development topics
• as well as sometimes personal stuff regarding the blog or the chaos I call my life

I won’t write articles on a regular basis, but I’ll try to keep the blog alive, full of intersting stuff such as tutorials or articles and hopefully also full of comments and responses written by readers. If you have any thoughts, ideas, pros and cons, e-mail me at fabianschuiki@axamblis.com (I know I must be nuts publishing this one here, ready to be found by “scan bots & friends”).

Thank you for reading the blog, so I close my very first article with the words…

Welcome to The Axamblis Blog!