Archive for July 2007

Red Shirt Code

In Beta on 13 July 2007 with no comments

Red Sweater Blog starts a good discussion on how to create a built-in expiry into your Beta app. Subscribe to my RSS feed!

Cocoa Animation With Dynamic Resizing

In Animation, Cocoa on 12 July 2007 with no comments

A great article at Noodlesoft explaining how to programatically alter the autoresizing masks (those springy things you set in Interface Builder) to have your view expand and contract as you add items (like the rules in Hazel).

Note that the autoresizing masks don’t have to be something you set once in IB and never touch again. [...]

ThinDoc - Creating Cocoa Docs

In Cocoa, Documentation on 12 July 2007 with 1 comment

Waffle has created a new document generator called thindoc for auto-generating docs for your Objective-C projects that look just like Apple’s own documentation. Not yet released, but the results so far look amazing. Subscribe to my RSS feed!

Nibless Cocoa Apps

In Cocoa on 12 July 2007 with no comments

LapCat Software publishes Part 5 of the series of articles outlining the tricks and contortions necessary to create a Nibless Cocoa App. Subscribe to my RSS feed!

Cocoa is NOT A Fetish

In Cocoa on 12 July 2007 with no comments

Rixstep reminds us that often a low level OS call can be more efficient and simpler than using the Cocoa API:

There are times - lots of them - when messaging and middlemen can get in the way: when they’re far from your best solution. Remember: the APIs you intend to call have nowhere to go [...]

Leopard Dock is Not HIG Compliant

In Graphics on 11 July 2007 with no comments

Furbo on why the new Leoapard doc defies the HIG (especially bad for those of us who like a vertical dock)

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Carbon AND Cocoa

In Carbon, Cocoa on 10 July 2007 with no comments

Uli on why no programmer can afford to say, “I don’t do Carbon….”:

That’s why Delicious Library is so slow, that is why it took Apple 3 revisions to get Mail.app to keep it from going brain-dead for five minutes when you quit and you had a mailbox with more than 1000 items, while MailSmith did [...]

Textmate XCode Bundle Build Sounds

In TextMate, XCode on 10 July 2007 with no comments

The build sounds on build success or failure when building from TextMate were starting to drive me crazy so I was glad when I saw this in the latest TextMate change notes:

[CHANGED] Xcode bundle: The success/failure sounds used by the Xcode build command now has tame defaults, namely Hero and Basso — if you want [...]