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Thinking Like a Cocoa Programmer Theocacao: “First and most importantly, the Cocoa programmer’s focus is always the end result for the user, not the academic sophistication of the code.” Fri, 27 Jun 2008 23:16:36 GMT

CocoaHeads reminder Reminder: tonight’s CocoaHeads meeting is at 7 at the Apple Store. A bunch of smart folks are speaking: Gus Mueller, Daniel Jalkut, Dirk Stoop, Jasper Hauser, and Mathieu Tozer. (I’ll join them for the Q&A session at the end.) And, after that, it’s time for the Ars Party. Wed, 11 Jun 2008 00:58:31 GMT

CocoaHeads WWDC 2008 Theocacao: “I’m thrilled to announced that we have an amazing lineup for Tuesday’s special meeting of CocoaHeads in San Francisco.” Gus Mueller, Daniel Jalkut, Dirk Stoop, Jasper Hauser, and Mathieu Tozer are speaking. I’m joining them for a Q&A session at the end. Sat, 07 Jun 2008 18:55:04 GMT

Preview of Versions SVN Client Theocacao: “Versions is the first practical solution I’ve seen for developers — web developers included — who have high standards for UI and don’t have the patience or interest to learn the quirks of the subversion command line tools. For those folks, this is far better solution than making zip copies of your source folders with manual timestamps, particularly when you work within a team.” Sun, 01 Jun 2008 16:57:07 GMT

Third Edition of Cocoa Programming Available Theocacao: “The first edition is the one I used to learn Cocoa (back when it was one of maybe two books on the topic), and I remember being struck by how well written it was.” Like Scott, I learned Cocoa from the first edition. When I recommend Mac programming books, this is the one I recommend first. Wed, 21 May 2008 16:53:32 GMT

CocoaHeads videos Theocacao: “The video from the UI Design Essentials talk at last month’s CocoaHeads Silicon Valley, is now available, along with the Debugging with Xcode talk by Joar Wingfors.” Sun, 11 May 2008 17:05:29 GMT

Cocoa Blogs Update Theocacao: The Cocoa Blogs feed is “now free to everyone — even those who have not made a donation.” Sun, 30 Mar 2008 19:31:40 GMT

Writing Modern Copy for Product Pages Theocacao: “It’s in your best interest to make specific statements about what your software does, and to not talk down to the reader.” Fri, 21 Mar 2008 00:00:33 GMT

Core Animation Sample Code: NanoLife Theocacao: “NanoLife is a simple Core Animation project with a single layer-backed view and a collection of sublayers. Each sublayer has a glowing sphere and moves along a random path, giving the impression of a microscopic lifeforms (or maybe fireflies?)” Sat, 23 Feb 2008 00:21:10 GMT

NetNewsWire style hack - Show web page instead of feed ollicle: “This stylesheet for NetNewsWire loads the linked web page instead of displaying the feed itself.” Thu, 14 Feb 2008 03:08:12 GMT

How Transmission Does Cross-Platform Theocacao: “Transmission doesn’t just give the appearance of being a good Mac app, it actually is. There’s real, solid Cocoa goodness here.” Fri, 01 Feb 2008 01:54:54 GMT

Questions and Demos from CocoaHeads MacFUSE Theocacao: “As a complement to the MacFUSE CocoaHeads talk, Joar Wingfors posted video for the Q&A and demos which followed the main talk. Two of the three projects demoed are now available for download.” Mon, 28 Jan 2008 02:06:19 GMT

Performance Comparisons of Common Operations, Leopard Edition Mike Ash: “Sending a message with NSInvocation on Tiger took about 160ns per message, but on Leopard it took only 77ns. That’s over a factor of two faster.” Tue, 22 Jan 2008 19:54:11 GMT

Monocle 1.5 waffle software released Monocle 1.5, a search engine launcher: “As you type, suggestions and preliminary results (both from Google) appear in a list right below, so that you can hone your query or go right to a result and cut out the results page.” Cool app. (We’ve been using betas. It’s donationware.) Tue, 22 Jan 2008 06:46:22 GMT

The Cults of Programming Mike Ash: “In my experience with various programmers over the years, I’ve realized that most of them fall into one of several cults which describe their behavior. I’ve compiled a list of cults and brief descriptions you can use to identify them.” Mon, 31 Dec 2007 06:18:26 GMT

Learn Cocoa Tutorial Updated for Leopard Theocacao: “I think it’s probably one of the most gentle, stress-free ways to learn the absolute basics of writing your first Cocoa app. It walks you through setting up a project in Xcode, creating a single window in Interface Builder, and testing out the result.” Mon, 24 Dec 2007 06:38:17 GMT

Scott reviews Acorn Theocacao: “This interface succeeds because of two factors: the display is remarkably compact and the conventions are familiar. The entire user interface fits into a single palette.” Thu, 20 Dec 2007 19:24:24 GMT

Slides from Building a Modern App Theocacao: “You can now download the slides from the Building a Modern Mac OS X App talk I gave at CocoaHeads on Thursday.” Mon, 17 Dec 2007 19:33:28 GMT

Core Animation Samples Theocacao: “Lucas Newman has posted a collection of three Core Animation sample projects. These examples stand out not only because they actually do interesting things, but the code is well-written and well commented.” Mon, 17 Dec 2007 19:32:08 GMT

Late Night Cocoa: what’s new in Cocoa for Leopard Theocacao: “We look at improvements in the built-in views, Core Animation, Core Data, Objective-C 2.0, and a lot more. This was a great episode to do because we could finally get into all of the work that has gone into Leopard.” Fri, 07 Dec 2007 04:37:25 GMT

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