- What Is Mac OS X?
- Feb 5, 2010
- David Chisnall looks at what is really at the core of Apple's operating system and where it came from.
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- Snow Leopard: The Underhyped APIs
- Jan 29, 2010
- David Chisnall takes a look at some of the new APIs in OS X 10.6 that will make life easier for developers but didn't receive much publicity.
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- Foundation: The Objective-C Standard Library
- Jan 26, 2010
- David Chisnall goes through the most important aspects of the OpenStep Foundation framework.
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- Cocoa Tips: Exposing System Services
- Jan 22, 2010
- David Chisnall shows how exposing system services makes it easy for users to access the features of your program from other applications.
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- Cocoa Tips: Don't Reimplement Standard Functionality
- Jan 15, 2010
- David Chisnall explains why using OS X's built-in APIs, rather than rolling your own, will allow your program to work with all of the user's other programs.
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- Localizing Cocoa
- Jan 8, 2010
- David Chisnall explains how thinking about localization early on will save a lot of work in the long run.
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- How Core Animation Changed Cocoa Drawing
- Jan 4, 2010
- David Chisnall looks at how things have changed between Display PostScript and CoreAnimation, and where they might end up in the future.
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- Using Distributed Objects in Cocoa
- Jan 1, 2010
- David Chisnall shows how, with distributed objects and with Bonjour, you can write applications that find and communicate with all instances on the local network, without writing any networking code.
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- Basic Animations with Core Animation
- Dec 28, 2009
- Marcus Zarra and Matt Long explain Core Animation's flexibility in allowing you to achieve your application animation goals.
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- How Paul McFedries Gets Under the Hood of Microsoft Products
- Dec 10, 2009
- Paul McFedries talks about his books, why he decided to take a diversion from the Microsoft path and write about OS X, and why he loves to track new words and phrases as they enter the English language.
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- Discovering Mac OS X 10.6 Snow Leopard
- Dec 4, 2009
- Eric Geier discusses the performance enhancements and new features of Apple's $29 upgrade.
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- Using Mac OS X Snow Leopard Applications
- Nov 3, 2009
- Snow Leopard’s applications are powerful tools for organization, gaming, controlling digital media, and Internet communication, just to name a few. Steve Johnson shows you how to use them to their best advantage.
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- Easy Mac OS X Snow Leopard: Organizing Your Life
- Oct 19, 2009
- Kate Binder explains how to use Address Book, iCal, and iSync.
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- A Half-Way Step to Apple’s Source Code: An Interview with David Chisnall
- Jun 5, 2009
- Longtime InformIT contributor David Chisnall talks Cocoa, GNUstep, and the Étoilé project with Linda Leung.
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- Advanced Flow Control for Objective-C
- Jun 5, 2009
- David Chisnall points out some of the more dynamic options that make Objective-C code even simpler than C.
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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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- From NeXTSTEP to Cocoa: Erik Buck on the Development of Cocoa and Objective-C
- Jun 5, 2009
- Erik Buck talks with David Chisnall about the history of modern Apple development from it's NeXTSTEP beginnings to Cocoa and Objective-C today.
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- Fun with the Objective-C Runtime
- Jun 5, 2009
- David Chisnall takes a look at some of the activities made easy by OS X Leopard's public interfaces to the Objective-C runtime library.
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- Steve Kochan on the Evolution of Objective-C
- Jun 5, 2009
- David Chisnall talks with Steve Kochan about Objective-C and the differences between programming for the desktop versus mobile devices.
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- The Technology NeXT Gave the World
- Jun 5, 2009
- The current Apple is a fusion of the beleaguered Apple of the 1990s and NeXT. David Chisnall takes a look at some of the now-ubiquitous ideas that were popularized by NeXT.
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