Friday, May 16th, 2008
Aaron Hillegass's Cocoa Programming for Mac OS X is now available on Amazon's US store. UK store to follow. This coincides nicely with my "Thursday Is Code Night In Bangor" plans. I already have second edition but I'd like third edition because things have changed. That said - even third ...
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Tuesday, April 29th, 2008
I'm finding Cocoa very hard. A few months ago, Aidan spent some time to coach me through the basics and while that went on I managed to get a lot of 'relatively' advanced things done. Going back to the code I wrote, even with the benefit of several weeks of ...
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Wednesday, April 16th, 2008
My copy of "iPhone Open Application Development" arrived in my hands today after spending a couple of weeks in the Mac-Sys office. It's a slim tome compared to the other Cocoa books I have but I understand where it fits in and it's a nice little addition to the collection. ...
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Thursday, April 3rd, 2008
The recent news that Adobe Creative Suite 4 will not be 64-bit for the Mac is taken as a blow to the Mac. It will be 64-bit for Windows on 64-bit machines running a 64-bit Windows OS (which is a surprisingly small number of people).
64-bit Windows XP runs slower than ...
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Thursday, March 27th, 2008
'Perry' wrote (on the RogueAmoeba blog post "Code Signing and You"):
"...the case for Code Signing on a Mac - in the service of its administrator/owner - is very compelling. In a sense, the Mac is living on borrowed time - viruses and worms and other nasty bit-critters will surely come ...
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Wednesday, March 19th, 2008
After each section of the name, there is a colon, which is actually considered part of the name itself and then a parameter. The type of the parameter is given in parentheses, followed by the parameter name.
After reading this short section, seriously I felt a light switch on in my ...
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Wednesday, March 19th, 2008
So how am I meant to deal with the light blue blobs. I can't 'edit' that text in any sensible fashion when what I really want to do is remove the space just after the * character. I end up just typing the whole thing which removes the point of ...
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Saturday, December 22nd, 2007
Cool, I didn't know you could just grab entire articles from the IntarWeb and publish them wholesale without even giving an attribution link!
That's what Rixstep has done?
Scott Anguish, one of the nicest guys on the Intarweb is more than a little upset because Rixstep has repeatedly refused to remove his ...
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