Category: Mac

  • Xcode Automation

    Uli Kusterer has a nice list of hints on automating some of the repetitive and tedious steps of Mac software development: Delete Subversion Folders Auto-generating a Help Index Using php for Your Help Books Including the Subversion Revision in Your App Build and Upload File for Deployment Uli also has quite a nice blog.

  • Run Windows XP Without Rebooting

    This is getting interesting. Mac World reports that a company called Parallels now has software that uses Intel’s built-in virtualization technology to allow Windows to run inside Mac OS X. This seems far more interesting that dual booting into Windows. There’s also some speculation of this functionality being built right into the next version of…

  • Apple Boot Camp: Run WindowsXP on a Mac

    Apple Boot Camp sounds like a late April Fools joke, but it looks real. As tempting as this sounds, somehow it just feels dirty. Is Apple selling out here? What’s this going to do to the Mac games market or the Mac 3rd party software market? It’s one thing to use an Intel chip, but…

  • Will Leopard be Intel Only?

    I wonder… now that Apple has announced the Intel-based MacBook and iMac and plan to have the rest of their machines switched over by the end of 2006; will the next version of Mac OS X (Leopard) be an Intel only release? It certainly would be one way of pushing people to upgrade their hardware.…

  • Wil Shipley on CocoaRadio

    CocoaRadio has an interesting interview with Wil Shipley of Delicious Monster, formerly of Omni Group. Some great stories and discussion about NeXT, WebObjects, Web Apps, CoreData, SpotLight, Memory Management, Microsoft, and the future of Delicious Library.

  • Xcode Secrets Uncovered?

    One of the most confusing things I’ve experienced in my short time developing software for the Mac is managing projects and their build and compile settings in Apple’s free development IDE, Xcode. Xcode is built on top of the cross-platform, open- source compiler gcc. Since gcc is a command-line tool, Xcode needs to handle all…

  • Apple: Getting Control with Subversion and Xcode

    Apple Developer Connection (ADC) has up a new article on setting up Subversion to run with Xcode. I’ve written several times about my use of Subversion with Xcode, but this is the first “official” step-by-step article I’ve seen from Apple that also includes setting up Apache 2.0 for the task. I’ll have to revisit this…