Category: Cocoa / Objective-C
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Code Review
One of the major negatives to programming on your own, especially with a new language or framework, is the lack of an external input to your learning process. Other People’s Code I have been learning Cocoa and Objective-C for over a year part-time and on my own. I have learned enough to get by and…
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I love the smell of deleted code in the morning.
Kilgore: Smell that? You smell that? Lance: What? Kilgore: Deleted code, son. Nothing in the world smells like that. Kilgore: I love the smell of deleted code in the morning. Ah, the joys of a good re-factoring session that leads to deleting tons of code that is no longer needed. The code is now leaner,…
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Advice for New Cocoa Programmers
Wincent Claiuta: Son, don’t repeat the same mistakes I made
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Tools Catchup
I’ve spent the better part of the morning catching up with all the upgrades to my developer tools for Mac OS X (Tiger) development. If you’ve been remiss on keeping up with the essentials, here’s a list of the latest and greatest: Xcode 2.4.1 CHUD 4.4.3 Subversion 1.4.2 Please, let me know if I’m missing…
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Cocoa Developer Job Board
The fine folks over at Panic have add a new Cocoa Developer Jobs Board to their CocoaDev.com site. If you are a company looking for developers they have a “Grand Opening” coupon available for $50 or 30 days. If you are a Cocoa Developer, there are several positions already listed. Even Apple is on board.…
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FlexTime UI Redesign
Daniel Jalkut of Red Sweater Software shares his approach to the redesign of FlexTime’s user interface. I really like the new interface and his write up reveals some nice little hints on how to incorporate similar ideas in to your Cocoa applications. It really is amazing how one little talk at a conference can cause…
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New Quartz Tutorial
Scott Stevenson has written up a great new tutorial: Introduction to Cocoa Graphics (Quartz) for his very helpful Cocoa tutorials web site: Cocoa Dev Central. There is some great stuff here. I truely wish that I had this resource back when I started Bullfrog. Scott skillfully walks the reader through a simple illustrated overview of…
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Bullfrog 1.2.0 Released
Bullfrog 1.2.0 is out. I’m pretty excited about this release. There are bunch of cool new things in this version: Automatic Software Updates using Andy Matuschak’s awesome Sparkle Framework Online High Scores Pause Button Screen Shot Button Several bug fixes Download Bullfrog 1.2.0 for Free
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Weekend Diversion
The nice thing about having several software projects going at the same time is that if you need a break from one, there is plenty of work to do on your others. LicenseKeeper development has been progressing nicely the last couple of weeks. But, this weekend I needed a break. With all the excitement of…
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Xcode 2.4 Released
Apple has released Xcode 2.4, available through Apple Developer Connection. The Xcode 2.4 release provides overall stability improvement and adds support for 64-bit Intel based Mac computers. It is recommended that all Xcode users install this update.