Cocoa

Cleaning Up Apple Template Code

In Cocoa on 29 May 2008 with no comments

Marcus Zarra outlines his thinking as he cleans up the template code that XCode gives you when you start a new Core Data project.

“Apple writes some amazing code. Unfortunately a lot of their templates demonstrate simply terrible coding practices. What is worse, people take these templates and assume that they are the proper practice for [...]

Hillegass Interview

In Cocoa on 29 May 2008 with no comments

Scott Stevenson interviews Aaron Hillegass.

I’m up late reading the 3rd Edition right now, in fact… Subscribe to my RSS feed!

Here Come the Cocoa Books

In Cocoa on 24 May 2008 with 1 comment

Now that the Iphone store and final SDK are imminent, it’s no surprise that there will suddenly, and finally, be some new Cocoa and IPhone programming books on shelf.

Here are the Amazon teases:

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Vidnik

In Cocoa, Google, Mac Apps on 10 May 2008 with no comments

Handy for those quick videos you want to put on YouTube, like, right now! Vidnik lets you record video from your ISight and immediately upload it to YouTube.

David Phillip Oster: “To use Vidnik, run the app, then click the record button to start recording. Click it again to stop. Trim to just the golden [...]

Hillegass Cocoa Programming 3rd Edition Available Now

In Cocoa on 30 April 2008 with 2 comments

It’s been a long time coming, but the sequel to the greatest Cocoa programming book is now available to read online.

Available in paper May 16 but available now through the Safari online book service. Subscribe to my RSS feed!

Testing Asynchronous Events In Cocoa Unit Tests

In Cocoa, Testing on 13 April 2008 with no comments

I was scratching my head trying to figure out how to unit test NSURLConnection when the Google God gave me this explanation from Mitchell Hashimoto.

Since the operation under test is asynchronous, the test would exit before the the NSURLConnection completed. The key is to let an NSRunLoop, well, run until your asynchronous operation is [...]

iTunes Scrollbar with Core Animation

In Cocoa, Core Animation on 12 April 2008 with no comments

Matthieu Cormier shares his implementation of an ITunes style scroller using Core Animation. Very slick.

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The wait is over……

In Cocoa on 24 January 2008 with no comments

Cocoa Programming, Hillegass, 3rd Edition

(Ok you have to wait until June to actually read it, but you can order it now) Subscribe to my RSS feed!

CocoaDev Forum

In Cocoa on 20 January 2008 with 1 comment

CocoaDev, the excellent Wiki for Cocoa developers, has started a discussion forum.

This has a lot of potential for people to learn and post questions about Cocoa. The cocoa-dev list and macdev irc room are also good, but not easy to keep up with.

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Ask Me When I’m Not Busy

In Cocoa on 9 January 2008 with no comments

Paul Kim has come up with an elegant solution to the problem of your Mac popping up an dialog while you are busy doing something else and having the new alert steal your focus.

This was created for Sparkle+ but Paul has released it as a category you can use in your own apps: “It’s [...]