I’ve created a new iPhone and iPad development link blog at http://heroicautobot.tumblr.com. It’s mainly intended for students in my iPhone SDK Programming class, but other folks may also find it useful as well.
Enjoy.
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 [...]
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 [...]
http://ktd.club.fr/programmation/fichiers/cpp-objc-en.pdf
Exactly what I was looking for.
Via Daring Fireball linked list.
I’m the kind of person who puts in hours of research before buying a toothbrush*, so you can imagine the amount of thought that went into selecting a look for learning a new programming language and API.
First, I wanted to take into account the fact that I’m a Mac newbie. (I’ll have to tell the [...]
Part of learning Cocoa is learning Objective-C. I guess technically it isn’t necessary as Cocoa is an API and Objective-C is a language, but it looks like most people use them hand in hand.
For future reference, the “official” way to write (or type, I guess) the language is Objective-C, capitalized and with a hyphen. It [...]