I’m from Brazil, and I’ve seen many reports of enrollments taking more than 4 weeks to complete, and, after reading all these posts, I was conformed in waiting the four weeks for the process.

Just so you know, we need to send a signed fax with a lot of information, including credit-card details, to Apple.

I was astonished that, 4 hours after I’ve sent the fax, my credit card was charged and I’ve got two e-mails saying that my developer program was activated and it was ready to use. Immediately I’ve logged on the Apple developer site, and it was everything there. Provisioning creation, iPhone SDK 4 and iPhone OS 4 available for download… Everything.

Well, thank you Apple, for another great customer service.

I’m sorry my fellow countrymates took so long, but we do need to report the goods and bads, right? Expect some info on upcoming app store software from us!

It assumes that you already know how to code, and is moving to a new platform (in this case Cocoa). It helped me a lot (and it still does) when I came from my C/C++ background to the MacOS Cocoa + ObjectiveC. It’s a hands-on approach that leaves no gaps in the explanations.  I’ve found myself many times coming from the Apple’s official tutorials to the eBook to get some clarification on some topics. It’s great both for learning and for reference.

If you’re new to programming and is starting in a MacOS platform, you can check out the Beginning Mac Programming: Develop with Objective-C and Cocoa. I haven’t read this one, but it seems to make the same approach from the first one, except it does not assume any programming background.

In the meantime, my wishlist is available with some other options of books (and, if you want to send me a gift, those are great ones).