Scotty from the Mac Developer Network is putting together an event called NSConference. It is a conference aimed at European Mac and iPhone developers (although people from further afield are more than welcome) and it is being held on the 16th and 17 of April 2009 in Hatfield, UK. I’m not going to copy and paste a whole load of information about the conference speakers and topics because you can find it all at http://www.nsconference.com. Sadly it looks like I’m not going to be able to attend although I would dearly love to. I went to my first WWDC last June... [Read more]
In my previous post about Version Numbers I briefly mentioned the idea of including build numbers in your version numbering scheme. To make this easier some people automatically populate this build number with the version number of the code from their source code repository. Below are some links to other sites where you can find details about doing this for various source code control systems and please feel free to submit more via the comments section and I will update this article accordingly. Subversion Courtesy of Daniel Jalkut at Red Sweater Software http://www.red-sweater.com/blog/23/automatic-build-sub-versioning-in-xcode Bazaar Courtesy... [Read more]
The Core Intuition Podcast In episode four of Core Intuition, Daniel Jalkut’s and Manton Reece’s excellent podcast, the conversation evolved from Apple’s Design Awards to application version numbering. Daniel and Manton raised some very good points and this has prompted me to use their thoughts as the basis of writing an article about it. If you want to listen to this particular episode then you can download it via http://coreint.org/audio/CoreInt_4.mp3. The section about version numbers starts at 15:20 but I would strongly recommend that you start at... [Read more]
One of the advantages of being a newcomer to Cocoa is that I can make my life easier (albeit at the expense of a few potential users) and concentrate on Leopard-only code and ignore all of those previous version of OS X that have gone before. A result of this, however, is needing to tell a user who has downloaded your application that they need a more recent version of OS X or even simply that they need to update from, say, version 10.5.2 to 10.5.4. This can be quickly and easily achieved via SystemVersionCheck by Chris Campbell which you can download from http://homepage.mac.com/chris_campbell/blog/SystemVersionCheck-1.1.html.... [Read more]
As a new Cocoa developer I’ve spent a fair amount of time ferreting around for useful books, web sites, podcasts and blogs, forums and discussion lists and looking into source code repositories. This article will highlight some of the best that I have found to date and will be the first post in my ‘Resources’ category. There are a several more books that I have and many more sites and blogs that I visit but these are some of the key ones so they get mentioned first. Books I have pretty much relied on a couple of books to get me started, Stephen Kochan’s... [Read more]