Last week, I had the pleasure of attending an excellent CouchDB presentation by the excellent Sam Bisbee.

CouchDB just hit the release 1.0 milestone, and I believe it’s a really compelling option for persistence – especially if your data relationships are relatively light (i.e. not a ton of many-to-many relationships, not a ton queries involving the joining of many, many tables).

Chris Adamson has posted a great summary of his presentation from the Voices That Matter: iPhone Developers Conference where he dives into the possibilities and perils of implementing in-app purchases in your iPhone applications.  These follow up nicely on his original post on the topic (An In-App Purchase Brain Dump).
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Much of the media buzz about iPhone OS 4.0 has focused on multitasking, home screen customizations and iAds.  While these changes are significant, at Cantina we’ve been wondering what other new features might emerge in 4.0 (and beyond) – and what new classes of applications they might enable.
While the full list of iPhone OS 4.0 [...]