- Delphi 6 Component Structure
- May 17, 2002
- Delve into the makeup of Delphi components.
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- Delphi 6 Shell Links
- May 24, 2002
- Xavier Pacheco and Steve Teixeira explore how to use the IShellLink Windows shell interface.
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- Delphi 6 Threads: Priorities
- May 31, 2002
- Learn about the process priority class and the relative priority of individual threads in Delphi 6.
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- Delphi 6 WebSnap Advanced Topics
- Jun 7, 2002
- Xavier Pacheco and Steve Teixeira covers some advanced topics that allow you to more finely tune your WebSnap applications.
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- Delphi, CORBA, and Enterprise Java Beans
- Jul 12, 2002
- Learn how to make a Delphi CORBA application connect to Enterprise Java Beans (EJBs) that are deployed under the Borland Application Server.
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- Design Patterns in Ruby: Keeping Up with the Times with the Observer Pattern
- Jan 11, 2008
- Build components that know about the activities of other components without having to tightly couple everything together.
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- Design Patterns in Ruby: Picking the Right Class with a Factory
- Oct 23, 2009
- In this chapter, Russ Olsen at both the Factory Method pattern and the Abstract Factory pattern. He also shines a light on some dynamic Ruby techniques that will help you build factories more effectively.
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- Designing the iPhone User Experience: Prototyping App Concepts
- Sep 2, 2010
- This chapter looks at various iPhone prototyping approaches — paper, software, and video — and suggests how to choose the best approach for your iPhone app.
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- Detached Retinas: How to Develop and Test OS X Retina Apps on Non-Retina MacBook Pros
- Apr 2, 2014
- Not everyone owns Retina MacBook Pros but when youβre deploying to the Mac App Store you need to ensure that your apps work as consistently on this target as they do on your home system. Learn how to add Retina emulation to your non-Retina development machine.
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- Discovering Swift and the iOS Playground
- Mar 27, 2015
- In this excerpt from iOS 8 Application Development in 24 Hours, Sams Teach Yourself, 6th Edition, John Ray takes you through the steps you need to know to be comfortable with Swift and starts you down the path to mastering this unique and powerful language.
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- Distributed Programming with Ruby: Distribunaut
- Nov 17, 2009
- Distribunaut is a framework agnostic port of the mack-distributed package. In this chapter from his book, Distributed Programming with Ruby, Mark Bates shows you how to install and use it.
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- Distributed Ruby: Mark Bates Sheds New Light
- Mar 2, 2010
- Sometimes Ruby code is too cool to run on just one computer at a time. In this interview with Hal Fulton, Mark Bates explains how he defines distributed programming, reasonable concerns about Ruby performance, and how to choose Ruby libraries.
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- Document Level Parameters Using Core Data: A Guide for Cocoa Developers
- Apr 7, 2006
- Core Data is one of Apple's latest technologies that allows the developer to effortlessly develop applications with a very complex data store. By utilizing Core Data your Cocoa application can instantly have access to a full database for storing the applications
data. All without a single line of code. But what if you want or need to store parameters that may be file specific but not application specific? In this article we will walk through one solution that allows for elegant access to document specific parameters in a Core Data application.
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- Effective Objective-C and Swift: Q&A with Matt Galloway
- Dec 9, 2014
- Matt Galloway, author of Effective Objective-C 2.0: 52 Specific Ways to Improve Your iOS and OS X Programs, and Senior Acquisitions Editor Trina MacDonald discuss the Objective-C programming language and how Apple’s new Swift programming language will alter the landscape of future iOS application development.
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- Eloquent Ruby: An Interview with Russ Olsen
- Mar 24, 2011
- Pat Eyler interviews Russ Olsen about his new book, Eloquent Ruby, recommended programming practices, why it's beneficial to learn a new programming language, and why it's sometimes worthwhile to color outside the lines.
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- Eloquent Ruby: Embrace Dynamic Typing
- Mar 2, 2011
- In this chapter from his book, Eloquent Ruby, Russ Olsen In looks at how dynamic typing allows you to build programs that are simultaneously compact, flexible, and readable. Unfortunately, nothing comes for free, so he also looks at the downsides of dynamic typing and at how the wise Ruby programmer works hard to make sure the good outweighs the bad.
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- Eloquent Ruby: Use Symbols to Stand for Something
- Mar 1, 2011
- In this chapter from his book, Eloquent Ruby, Russ Olsen shows symbols in Ruby for what they really are: very simple, useful programming language constructs that are a key part of the Ruby programming style.
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- Erica Sadun on the iPhone SDK, OS X, and the Computing Landscape
- Jun 5, 2009
- David Chisnall talks with Erica Sadun about the iPhone SDK, Objective-C, and what she'd like to see at this year's WWDC.
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- Erica Sadun's Roadmap to Mac/iOS Development
- Mar 7, 2013
- There is a lot to learn if you want to become a Mac and iOS developer. Fear not, however, because bestselling author and developer Erica Sadun has developed this handy guide for getting you started with the best course of action and resources available.
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- Foreword to "iOS Components and Frameworks"
- Oct 30, 2013
- Developer and author Kirby Turner explains why iOS Components and Frameworks: Understanding the Advanced Features of the iOS SDK is the book he wishes he would have had when he first started developing iOS apps in 2008.
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