Outer Level

Category: Cocoa / Objective-C

  • Apple Design Awards 2006

    Apple has posted the winners of their annual Apple Design Awards contest. Congratulations to all the winners and runners-up.

  • Xcode 3.0 and Objective-C 2.0

    Xcode 3.0 and Objective-C 2.0: garbage collection project snapshots non-linear debugger Xtray (GarageBand-like time-line performance analyzer) Interface Builder 3.0 Sweet UI updates

  • Productive Day

    I had a nice productive Sunday. With some quiet and very few interruptions, several items on my LicenseKeeper development to-do list got knocked out. The major item I had been struggling with was how to support drag and drop from Apple Mail. After many hours of research, much experimentation, and lucking into some nice open…

  • 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.

  • C++ vs. Objective-C

    What are the differences between the programming languages C++ and Objective-C? What are the fundamental approach and philosophy differences? I just found this old, yet informational article “C++ Versus Objective-C” on MacTech. It appears to have been written during the old Rhapsody days, but the information contained within is pretty interesting if you are new…

  • NSTableView with CocoaBindings and DeleteKey

    NSTableView+CocoaBindingsDeleteKey (Jonathan ‘Wolf’ Rentzsch) I wish saw this cocoa source code two weeks ago when I was trying to get this to work in LicenseKeeper.

  • LicenseKeeper: CoreData Remodeling

    I’ve been toiling away on LicenseKeeper development, struggling with a ton of various approaches to the user interface. No matter what I tried, things just didn’t feel right. So yesterday, I ripped most of the interface out and completely reworked the CoreData model. Things are now starting to feel a bit better. This was a…

  • Core Data Video Tutorial

    Jonathan ‘Wolf’ Rentzsch has created a video tutorial on developing Core Data applications in Cocoa and Objective-C. I’ve been looking for something like this for a long time. Related Links Video Tutorial Source Code Official Apple Developer Connection Video Tutorial Page Cocoa Dev Centeral: Core Data Tutorial Cocoa Dev Central: Intro to Cocoa Bindings

  • Sparkle: Self Updating Framework for Cocoa Applications

    Mac Geekery talks about a new Cocoa framework that allows Self-Udating Programs, For Free. Sparkle is a BSD-Licensed Open-Source framework for Cocoa applications that is literally drop-dead easy to use. This is perfect timing for me. Just this week, I started writing up some requirements that my next project will need as part of it’s…

  • 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.