Thursday, June 13, 2002

Accessor methods revisited. Stepwise.com on writing Cocoa accessor methods. [ranchero.com] Writing accessor methods may not be as simple as you thought. Especially if you are writing a multi-threaded application. 8:43:42 AM    comment []

Open Source Icons for OS X. Xicons.com “is an enthusiastic supporter of Open Source software. We are pleased to announce the launch of our new open source icon category.” [ranchero.com] I'm really looking forward to this. I am not at all an artist and it seems silly to have a beautiful Aqua interface with stick-figure icons for toolbars, etc. 8:36:49 AM    comment []

On Aquafying Office. O’Reilly interviews Ivor St. John Clarke, formerly the program manager in charge of guiding Office’s transition to Aqua. [ranchero.com] 8:32:40 AM    comment []

Friday, June 7, 2002

Had a slight scare today. I got back from vacation and my PowerBook (my primary development machine) would not accept AC power. Once the battery ran out, that was it. Luckily, Fry's had a PowerBook AC adapter in stock and all is well again. 11:32:13 PM    comment []

Monday, June 3, 2002

Comparing NSStrings numerically provides source code for an NSString category which compares strings with embedded numbers. For example, it will sort a list of filenames as pic1.gif, pic8.gif, pic9.gif, pic12.gif instead of sorting them as pic1.gif, pic12.gif, pic8.gif, pic9.gif as a more traditional comparison would. 10:27:06 PM    comment []

Sunday, June 2, 2002

Understanding the design behind Cocoa’s Foundation classes. CocoaDevCentral on the patterns used in the Foundation classes. [ranchero.com] This article covers mutable vs. immutable containers, the different container types, container enumerators and strings. 6:42:23 PM    comment []

Saturday, June 1, 2002

Hello! My name is Jeff Gilbert. I have been writing Macintosh software for about 11 years, mainly using C++ (and some Object Pascal in the beginning). I have heard many good things about Objective-C and the Cocoa application framework for developing Mac OS X applications quickly and easily. So, I decided to explore Cocoa in my spare time by writing a new application -- a narrowly-focused accounting application for someone I know. This weblog will chronicle my experience as a first-time Cocoa developer. I plan to write about interesting problems I encounter, post helpful code snippets and pointers to other useful Cocoa-related information I find on the web. To create this weblog I am using the wonderful Radio UserLand weblog tool from Dave Winer and the fine folks at UserLand Software. I would also like to thank Rob Fahrni for gently nudging me to start this weblog. 6:00:44 PM    comment []