Another year has come and gone here at Switch On The Code and that means it's time to look back at 2009 and how we did. First I have say it was a great year and we really did a lot of new things here. We started podcasting, doing video tutorials, and much more. A new version of the site was launched built completely in Drupal just about 1 year ago exactly. Now I really hope that this year will bring just as many goodies.

I enjoy writing applications for the iPhone, not because I like Objective-C or Xcode but I really like seeing the application on my phone. This means I have to endure the other two. Being fairly new to the Cocoa and Objective-C world I spend a fair amount of time in documentation. This is always a mundane task but Xcode just makes it a completely bad experience. Recently I ran across an application that improves the task. The application is called AppKiDo.

We've successfully jumped through all the Apple App Store hoops and are proud to bring you the first iPhone application brought to you by the writers of Switch On The Code - Stat Fever. I bet you're wondering what Stat Fever does, so I'll tell you - it lets you view your Feedburner stats from anywhere using your iPhone. And really, why would you use anything but an iPhone to view you Feedburner stats?

The data center that holds our dedicated server suffered a power loss yesterday morning that unfortunately took down Switch On The Code for close to 14 hours. This incident, however, really showcases the potential of Twitter's real-time search. A simple query for "crucialparadigm" listed a handful of people experiencing the same outage.