So first off, Xbase 1.1.1 mostly works with Snow Leopard. There is an update coming soon (1.1.2) that will address some of the remaining issues. In particular, sending emails from scripts does not work.

1.1.2 also adds a new import system. For now it can import CSV, TSV and DBF. More formats are forthcoming.

Squish is a new app coming soon (http://squishapp.com) as a joint project with SilverCocoa. It makes shortening URLs for twitter, email, IM, easier and actually quite fun. Unfortunately, Snow Leopard broke a major component (InputManagers and SIMBL) which must now be rewritten.

To ship Squish we needed a new web store. The current store only handles one version of one product which is clearly not sufficient. Enter Inventory:

It supports multiple products, upgrade versions, coupons and is in general a nicer experience.

To ship Inventory we needed a way of logging users in and out. The current system amounts to a shared MySQL table that all web applications read. Unfortunately, this means each web app needs to build its own login and registration system which equals a lot of code duplication and very little consistency. We have at least four separate login pages for that shared table. To fix this, Fauth was born (pronounced as in “Fourth”):

Fauth is completely centralised and provides an easy API so that PHP and Django apps can talk to it. Best of all, all login pages now look the same so users can be sure that they’re logging into the same site.

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