- Waiting for Siri: Why Apple's Personal Assistant Isn't on the iPad (Yet)
- Mar 19, 2012
- Bestselling author and TUAW.com blogger Erica Sadun explains why there are some good technical reasons preventing Apple from bringing Siri to the iPad without some fundamental development work.
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- New Objective-C Runtime Features in OS X 10.7 and iOS 5
- Mar 6, 2012
- The latest versions of the Objective-C runtimes shipped with iOS, Mac OS X, and even GNUstep provide several new features. David Chisnall looks at a few of these features.
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- Practical Object Oriented Design in Ruby: Interfaces
- Mar 2, 2012
- This chapter explores creating flexible interfaces in Ruby that allow applications to grow and change.
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- Programming in Objective-C
- Jan 23, 2012
- To help you understand the steps involved in keying in a program and compiling and running it, this chapter shows you how to write your first simple Objective-C program.
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- Objective-C Memory Management
- Jan 19, 2012
- This chapter provides a broad look at memory management in Objective-C.
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- David Chisnall Presents a Developer's Reading List
- Jan 4, 2012
- Expert programmer David Chisnall provides a list of the 5 books he believes every programmer should read.
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- The iOS 5 Developer's Cookbook: Working with View Controllers
- Dec 27, 2011
- This chapter shows how to build simple menus, create view navigation trees, design tab-bar-based and page-view-based applications using view-controller-based classes.
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- Cocoa Programming for Mac OS X: Objective-C
- Dec 12, 2011
- Cocoa was developed using Objective-C, and most Cocoa programming is done in Objective-C. Teaching C and basic object-oriented concepts could consume an entire book. This chapter assumes that you already know a little C and something about objects and introduces you to the basics of Objective-C.
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- Objective-C Boot Camp
- Nov 25, 2011
- This chapter covers basic Objective-C skills that help you get started with iOS programming: interfaces, methods, properties, memory management, and more.
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- NSOperation: Simple, Parallel, Cocoa
- Nov 22, 2011
- In all of the hype surrounding Grand Central Dispatch, Cocoa's NSOperation class often gets overlooked. David Chisnall shows how this simple class can make it easy to support multiple cores in your Cocoa code.
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- Big Nerd Ranch Advanced Mac OS X Programming: Blocks
- Nov 14, 2011
- In this chapter, Big Nerd Ranch's Mark Dalrymple describes the blocks runtime as released with Mac OS X 10.6 (Snow Leopard).
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- Simplifying 3D Graphics Programming for iOS with GLKit
- Nov 11, 2011
- Expert developer Erik Buck explains how Apple's GLKit can help you design your iOS code for optimal graphics performance with minimal effort and overhead.
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- The Big Nerd Ranch Guide to Variables and Types in Objective-C
- Nov 11, 2011
- During execution, a program often needs places to store data that will be used later. Each variable has a name and a type. This chapter discusses working with variables and their associated types.
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- The Ruby Reading List
- Oct 13, 2011
- In the last ten years the Ruby programming language has gone from an obscure open source project to the expansive technology behind some of the world’s most visible web properties. In this article Russ Olsen points out some of the Ruby ‘must reads’, web sites and books that will help the new Ruby programmer get started.
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- iOS Developer's Bookshelf: A Reading List by Rod Strougo
- Oct 12, 2011
- iOS developer Rod Strougo shares some of the books in his library that have helped him become a better game programmer. He also shares a few books that are excellent companions to his own for aspiring iOS game developers.
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- Learning iPad Programming: Provisioning Your iPad
- Oct 12, 2011
- Before your app will run on a real device, you must setup your iPad as a development device. This is where provisioning comes in, and that's exactly what you will do in this chapter
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- The iOS 5 Developer's Cookbook: Adding Reflections
- Oct 12, 2011
- Erica Sadun shows how to use reflections in your iOS applications.
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- The iOS 5 Developer's Cookbook: Combining Emitter Layers with User Touches
- Oct 12, 2011
- Erica Sadun shows how you can add some sparkle to your apps by displaying clouds, fireworks, or other particle effects at a user's touch.
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- The iOS 5 Developer's Cookbook: Working with View Controllers
- Oct 12, 2011
- Erica Sadun shows how to build simple menus, create view navigation trees, design tab bar- and page view-based applications, and more with view controllers.
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- The iOS 5 Developer’s Cookbook: Six Fabulous Xcode Tricks
- Oct 12, 2011
- Erica Sadun provides six little Xcode 4.x tricks you might be able to use in your day-to-day development work.
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