File this under: I know enough to make myself look stupid.
Look at the dialog labeled “General” in this blog post. This is the preferences dialog in Safari for Windows. There are very few clues that it’s a dialog for a Windows application. Really, the only clue is the ‘x’ close button in the upper right [...]
Memorial Day seems like a month ago, but it’s only been a couple of weeks. Thankfully, this will be my last post on the topic, and I can get back to blogging about writing code and reading books.Just for a refresher, in part 1 I migrated our old blog to this new site. In part [...]
Turns out that garbage collection for Objective-C in Leopard is not speculation (scroll to “Application Technologies”):
Leopard brings a multitude of improvements and additions to the Carbon and Cocoa application frameworks. The most visible of these is the new Core Animation framework which makes creating compelling interfaces much easier. Not as obvious, but no less important [...]
http://www.apple.com/macosx/leopard/developer/xray.html
A cool debugging tool / paradigm included in the developer tools for Leopard.
Feature of note: Tracks garbage collection. Does this mean that Objective-C is getting “real” garbage collection? (I think I’ve read speculation along these lines.) So far, I’ve seen some tools for helping with reference counting, but nothing like Java or .NET garbage collection.
For [...]
Aaron Hillegass, whose book I’m using to learn Cocoa, has made MacTech’s list of the top 25 most influential people in the Macintosh community. He’s at the top of the list, but only because it’s sorted alphabetically by first name. (There’s no ranking among the top 25, though there is an honorable mention section at [...]
http://ktd.club.fr/programmation/fichiers/cpp-objc-en.pdf
Exactly what I was looking for.
Via Daring Fireball linked list.
I just want to take a moment to clarify what I mean when I talk about Unix on this blog.
I recognize that I am presenting a naive view of what Unix is, and that the reality is rather complex. However, in my mind and on this blog, when I say “Unix”, I really mean, “A [...]