Hallelujah: Apple is now offering official developer forums for the members of the iPhone Developer Program. It’s tied to your Apple ID, so they know who’s in and who’s not, and part of the usage agreement implies that they may provide forums for the discussion of pre-release software.

I hope they extend this to Mac development, too. The Apple mailing lists are great, but up until Leopard was released, the moderators on cocoa-dev were constantly fighting the tide of questions about Leopard-only APIs.

(Seen on Daring Fireball.)

Surfin’ Safari has a great post talking about some recent improvements to the Web Inspector in the latest WebKit nightly builds. Safari’s Web Inspector has long been a really great tool for examining the DOM and simple profiling of a requested page and its resources, but these new updates make it a serious tool for web developers.

If you’ve never tried a WebKit nightly build before, it is easy (on a Mac, anyway) to run it side-by-side with Safari. You don’t have to give up your stable, released browser to check out these new features. Still, it will be very nice when these improvements make it into an official release.

For Firefox users, YSlow is a very nice extension built on top of Firebug that provides a detailed report card on page load performance, including suggestions for improving it.