Wednesday, 2 May 2007

Macvaerk User Group and Cocoa Demo Resources...

Here is the homepage of the Danish Mac User Group "Macvaerk"...

They have weekly meetings on tuesday evenings, and everyone is welcome!

They also recently had a rather good introduction to Cocoa/Obj-C, which I attended. Kudos to Daniel Eggert for a good performance on the stage! The Demo Cocoa-App that Daniel has shown on stage is available here... Demonstrating Value-observing through bindings and some transformations in raw ObjC-code, based on the data-values supplied by these bindings.
Key-words:
  • Cocoa bindings
  • Key Value Observing
  • MVC Cocoa
  • Interface Builder/Xcode

Monday, 5 February 2007

Generic properties w. KVC...

Here is a nifty way to replace several lines of code using KVC in a fashion were multiple properties are loaded into a NSDictionary instance in one step.

Great Cocoa podcast

Go to the site of the podcast "Late Night Cocoa" and start enjoying a technical podcast on Cocoa development.

Cocoa - Add auto-update to your apps!

Whenever you create a new app, you actually have the opportunity to add auto-updating to this app. Using this cool framework will do the trick for you Sparkle

Wednesday, 17 January 2007

Become an Xcoder...

Here's a little PDF download (2MB), outlining the basics of Xcode practices and Objective-C. The CocoaLab source of this download also contains good tutorials and some select Code examples.



You might not like the Objective-C syntax at first, but you will love its elegance in the long run (I guarantee it!).

Offline resources...

Two great books!

1. Cocoa Programming for Mac OS X by Aaron Hillegass

If you're serious about programming, and serious about Mac OS X!


2. Step Into Xcode by Fritz Anderson
Another great book, supplementing Aarons quite well!

Online resources...

Learning Cocoa and Objective-C


I've supplied these free resources for learning Cocoa, and for making the journey more pleasant with a few great tools.

Please add more, as you see fit, as long as they're of equal quality.


Object Oriented Programming @ Stanford University


Learn the Xcode basics, the Objective-C language, how to use Xcode and project-builder. Stanford University delivers slides, tutorials and problems for you to solve

Communication level:University,Programming experience:none


Apple Developer's Site


The official Objective-C and Cocoa frameworks API. You will also find downloads for all of the latest Xcode-versions and API documentation. Do create an account here... it's well worth it!

Cocoadevcentral


A place to learn Cocoa, providing tutorials and links to great resources to get you started!

CocoaCast - Podcast


A podcast which goes through several lessons, each describing a key-concept in Cocoa as presented in the book by Aaron Hillegass.

Great tools


Apple Developer's Site, members get Xcode tools etc.


This is a repeat, as it is a Must have!

AppKiDo


Ever wondered how to get to grips with all of those Cocoa-frameworks? AppKiDo shows the way!