TypeRoom has just opened a public beta for their TypeRoom Lite service.

I covered TypeRoom Lite a few months back and was really impressed with the concept. If you are looking for content management systems for a web project I highly recommend trying this out.

It's really easy to get started:

1. Go to www.TypeRoom.com
2. Type in a web site
3. Start editing

This service is free while it is in public beta.

I watched the announcement on Apple's iPhone SDK today and was amazed at the power that developers now have.  I couldn't wait to get started trying things out until I found out that the iPhone simulator and IDE are only available on the Mac platform.

I highly recommend watching the full announcement on Apple's Developer Connection page.

Here is a quick summary of the main API features and tools being released:

API Features

I have been getting a few messages lately from people who are having trouble with Facebook not properly detecting that they have Flash Player 9 installed.

It sounds like Facebook has a slight bug in their version detection scheme that only affects a few users. A post on the developer feed a few weeks ago seems to confirm this.

Facebook tried patching this bug but the fix caused problems with the <fb:swf> tag so they unapplied the patch.

As the Facebook platform expands the number of users who are not native English speakers is growing. Facebook just released a Spanish version of the site and used a neat idea to translate everything into Spanish. Instead of sending all the text off to professional translators, they set up a system where Facebook users who speak Spanish could translate text directly on the site.

This creative use of the user base seems to have worked well as it resulted in the entire site being translated in less than a month.

Web developers often have a few small projects over their career where the final output is a set of static HTML pages with no server side code.

This is usually because the client's budget constraints left no room for a database driven web site with content management system, or the web site just isn't updated frequently enough to need anything complex. In these cases the client usually sends email requests for small changes that the webmaster manually updates.