Hello everybody. My name is Jim, and I’m a programmer. I’ve been in the industry for nine years, and worked almost exclusively with the Macintosh for the past seven.

My hunting grounds consist of the innards of the Apple Macintosh and its operating system, and, since Spring 2007, the AppleTV and the BackRow interface & content framework therein. I’ve been a regular on AwkwardTV and have written some tutorials on BackRow programming on their wiki, and on their forums.

In June 2008 I became a freelance developer (thus no longer required to dissociate my name from my exploits chronicled herein) and have worked on commercial projects involving the Macintosh, the iPhone, and the Apple TV itself. As a result of my work in those areas I’ve become a partner in Morfunk, an iPhone development company founded with David Kaneda. Our first iPhone application, Outpost, was released just hours before the start of 2009, and has been the impetus behind the design of some acclaimed open-source code.

I’m also very happy to be involved with a new (April 9 2009) mobile development company called Pinch/Zoom as one of two native iPhone developers. I’m really excited at being able to work with luminaries like Brian Fling and Garrett Murray.

I’ve worked on Windows in the past, and can port software to the Macintosh; I’ve worked on and implemented everything from applications to plugins to runtime-environment-level software on the Macintosh.

If you have a query about programming for an Apple platform, or have a project you’d like to bring to fruition, I am .