Those Mac developers looking forward to attending this year’s Worldwide Developers’ Conference (WWDC) just got another reason to go.
Today Apple sent an e-mail to registered developers, offering them first cuts and the much-anticipated Leopard (Mac OS X 10.5) operating system. The e-mail says there will be a “feature complete” version of Leopard – ostensibly with [...]
A few months ago I started to mess around with a .htaccess file in connection with one of my websites. When I transferred the file from my web server to my desktop via FTP, the file never showed up. I tried again and again, but that dang file would never show up.
After a [...]
A Product Manager at Symantec Corporation posted a query Wednesday on the Entourage mailing list.
I was curious if anyone knew the names of a few dev shops that focus on creating custom extensions for Entourage.
Although the mailing list is unofficial, and not run by Microsoft, it is frequented by MVPs and has seen activity by [...]
Today I came across an article with a few ‘tools’ for web design and frankly, I thought it pretty lame and unexciting. There were 2 things on there that I felt were actually good information, Color Schemer and Typetester. The other, information was either lame (a “handy dandy” notebook) or untrue (“Mountain Dew“).
So, [...]
Recently Google has announced a release of FUSE for OSX.
For those not familiar with FUSE, it means Filesystem in User Space. FUSE allows someone to implement a filesystem using the built-in API instead of having to write complex software to achieve the same goal. This should open up a lot of interesting possibilities [...]
After TUAW posted about Leopard only applications the other day, Scott Stevens (of Thoecacao and CocoaBlogs, and CocoaDevCentral) addresses the issue from a developer perspective. You may want to check the TUAW post first, and then go back to Scott’s explanation of things for a full-world view of the situation.
The insight Scott offers [...]
I’ve been working more in web development lately, both in PHP (picking up more freelance work) and learning Ruby on Rails. It’s always been something of a hobby of mine to try new things with web programming, but one thing always makes me clench my fists and gnash my teeth: the Mac OS X user [...]
Apple has officially released Dashcode, an application for developing Dashboard Widgets. It’s in beta, but from what I can tell from using it, it seems to be pretty feature complete, and very stable.
This application is really cool, I must say. It allows anyone, even someone with very very little technical knowledge, to create a dashboard [...]
I do quite a bit of design and development with my company. To keep things streamlined I’ve setup my machine as a local development server to avoid the obvious hassle of having to FTP files every time I make a change that I want to see. Setting up your machine as a development server is [...]
This will be a new thread where I’ll show a tip or trick for Cocoa programmers, and why it’s imporant to everyone. These articles will be geared towards everyone – not just programmers. I’ll hide the code so you don’t have to look at it if you don’t want to see it.
I got an iChat message from Paul yesterday, asking about a way to use music visualizations as a desktop ‘wallpaper’. My initial suggestion was to play with Quartz Composer and see about coming up with something there. I’ve come up with a couple more suggestions – which I’ll write about in a moment [...]
Apple will be including Ruby on Rails in the next version of OS X (Leopard), both server and client.
I’m a big fan of RoR and since the version of Ruby that shipped with my Mac was a little botched, I’m excited to hear that they’re including a tested version of both Ruby and Rails in [...]
At WWDC a briefly mentioned major addition to Leopard is the new Xcode 3.0. Now, many users will find no use in this important feature except for the improvement of the applications they use. For developers it is a must have, and it is quite disappointing that we will have to wait until spring of [...]
The Smart InputManager Bundle Loader (SIMBL), developed by Mike Solomon, is a hack, and not only that, it’s a hack that allows for more hacks. In this meaning, it’s a good hack. SIMBL allows developers to write plugins for cocoa applications that would normally not allow them. Once SIMBL is installed, each [...]
Months ago, I saw the “Evening at Adler” video that DrunkenBatman released, which consisted of Mac indie developers discussing important topics about our platform. Something that they discussed which rang strong with me was a topic known as “versioning”. Basically, when a developer works on a major project, no matter what environment or platform, it’s [...]
You may have seen the Iron coder contest in the previous rounds – the first one occurred this spring. It gives Mac developers (with Cocoa) a means to stretch their programming muscle. Participants are given 48 hours to make something cool from scratch. Kinda like “Iron Chef”, but with Mac programming. The catch? You must [...]
About a month or so ago, I attended an Apple briefing on Microsoft interoperability using the new Intel Macs. It was a lot of fairly familiar ground, with Boot Camp and Parallels, but they also introduced a new product, still in alpha testing, from CodeWeavers called CrossOver that got me really excited because it was [...]
Looks like Apple pulled a sneak attack with us in the night, and released the new Macbooks. Which are now in two colors (black and white), but sadly they only come in 13″. They come at 3 different price points, $1099 for 1.83 GHZ core duo, $1299 for 2.0 GHZ core duo, and another [...]
This is the just one reason I hate the rumor sites. In a post that reads like an April Fools joke, this intelligent discussion suggests Mac developers will abandon coding for OS X because new Macs can run Windows. “Just boot into Windows” they say. Come on, this is a complete cop-out and it only [...]
I was going to write up a C/C++ primer, but I think this will do well…. http://visualcplus.blogspot.com/. Just start with lesson one, and work your way from there.
Now that it’s fallen off of the digg.com top spots, it should be accessible. Just ignore the Windows-centric portions of the tutorials, and it is a good intro [...]
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