Using the MCPKit is one way to use MySQL from your Cocoa Application, and I decided to do just that. But there is that one problem since the project seems not to be all that alive - the compiled version is PPC only, no Universal Binary. Well, I thought, download the source and build the Framework on your own. I finally succeeded, but not without running into some troubles first.

It's done, I just finished uploading my first iPhone application to the iTunes Store named Eponyms. It still is under review, but it's finally up there and scheduled for release July 20 (if it's accepdet by then). The app is an application to look up medical eponyms and is based on the eponym database created by Andrew J. Yee (www.eponyms.net/) featuring more than 1'600 eponyms. It's released under the Apache 2.0 License and therefore Open Source, you can checkout a working copy at the project site:

code.google.com/p/eponyms-touch/

I sell the app for 2 US Dollars but offer the same app as a free download for students. There will be no check if anyone indeed is a student, let's see how honest people are. :)

I hope you like it!

You can't download the app on your own because distributing iPhone applications is done exclusively through iTunes, here the links:
Eponyms Eponyms (for students)

I'm currently working on an application for the iPhone/iPod touch and decided to use SQLite as storage for the data. The app will display medical eponyms and must fill the database on first launch and when new eponym data is available from an XML file. It parses the XML file and fills the SQLite database, which currently results in 27 entries to a categories table, 1'623 entries to the eponyms table and 3'281 entries to a linker table (4'931 entries in total). The whole database weighs only 394 KB.

Read the full article to see how I sped up the import process by a magnitude of more than 10.