I actually have a working Cocoa app that implements all the "must have" features. Moving on to the "nice to have" features now.

  • Cocoa JSON Framework - I'm going to have to swap some data between the Cocoa app and a merb site. Looks like this makes it easy, since merb can do native JSON output of anything. I looked into using YAML, but the only existing Cocoa YAML code doesn't seem to have been revised in several years. I could use a ruby class to do the import, but why not stick to all native Objective C?

  • Mac Help Writer - The help authoring scene on OS X is much bleaker than on Windows. This is the best one I've found; it builds nice-looking standard help files for the Mac, but I can tell I'm going to be hand-editing HTML files to do anything tricky, as it hits its limits quickly. I looked at several other applications that run on OS X, but they're all cross-platform, building help files that look like WinHelp in an OS X container. That's a fail.

  • Capistrano 2.2.0 Preview - Eek, I'm not done grokking 2.0 yet. Fortunately the changes are minimal, mainly better git support.

  • scope-out-rails - Plugin for adding easy scopes to your models.