If you are a Mac (or iPhone) developer, I highly recommend getting a subscription to the Mac Developer Network Access to the Developer Lives podcast is worth the price alone, but you also get free and discounted software.
If you are even thinking of considering of toying with the idea of getting a membership, you should [...]
I’ve had a couple people ask me how to get started with iPhone development, so I thought I’d post an answer here so I’d only have to write it once. Plus others may find this useful.
Introduction
iPhone development is fun and rewarding, but it requires a significant investment of both money and time. You’ll have no [...]
I now have concrete proof that I have written Objective-C code worthy of including in a product.
I’ve been using FMDB on a couple projects, and found a bug and made a couple improvements. I submitted the changes to Gus and he included them in the project.
Here’s the proof: http://code.google.com/p/flycode/source/diff?r=30&format=side&path=/trunk/fmdb/CHANGES_AND_TODO_LIST.txt
Actually, it was only about 4 lines of [...]
http://arstechnica.com/journals/apple.ars/2007/06/13/64-bit-support-in-leopard-no-carbon-love
I really don’t know close to enough to understand the implications of this, but it sounds pretty serious, at least if you want to build 64-bit applications. From the Infinite Loop article:
Although we can still look forward to 64-bit Cocoa applications in Leopard, this development means that third-party developers, especially those with cross-platform products, will [...]
Just a quick follow up to my last post.The Apple-style form elements also appear in web pages, not just the application dialogs. This must have involved a significant development effort on Apple’s part. (I have some experience with web browser development.) I think Apple must really want pages to look identical in all versions of [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]