There has been a shift in development landscape over at Apple. John Siracusa of Ars Technica recently published an article about Apple’s language and API future. I believe Apple is preparing to transition to Ruby as their next default language. Today Today, the Apple development stack sits on top of the GCC compiler. GCC compiles [...]
When teaching Objective-C, I’m finding that some have trouble reading method signatures. Reading Objective-C methods can be made easier if proper spacing and indenting is used. This is what a method looks like in Objective-C: – (ret-type) keyword:(arg-type)arg-name keyword:(arg-type)arg-name It is much easier to read if it is typed as such: – (ret-type) keyword:(arg-type)arg-name keyword:(arg-type)arg-name [...]
I’ve been getting a number of questions from programmers about iPhone development. I thought I would compile the answers into one place and push them out into the world. The iPhone SDK has been updated at a blistering pace and the documentation has not kept up with the API changes as quick as it could [...]
If you are an certified iPhone developer, then you have probably been frustrated at some point by the Fucking NDA. You’ve probably come across the 0xE8000001 error when trying to sign code and provision a device. That last sentence probably doesn’t make any sense to you if you are not a registered developer. I Tweeted about [...]
Last week Apple released a BETA version of the iPhone Software Development Kit. They also announced the iPhone Apps Store. Users will be able to download applications through iTunes on their Mac or PC. Applications can also be downloaded directly from the iPhone or iPod Touch too. This essentially makes Apple the gatekeeper. There are [...]
From here. I fired off an email to Steve Jobs about this. I basically told him that if Apple had to have one must game on the platform that year, it would have to be Half-Life 2. …. At some point Apple did meet with Newell, but I guess nothing came of it except that [...]
D1R-jKKp3NA It’s been about a month since I purchased my MacBook Pro. I can say without a doubt that, Windows is dead to me. The developer in me loves the fact that it is built on top of UNIX. All of those UNIX programs that I missed are available. Aquamacs is the best Emacs I’ve [...]
These instructions are based on this blog post over here. Those instructions are from 2005, there was a little bit of extra work to get it working on my MacBook Pro. OpenMCL You need to download the latest version of OpenMCL. For Mac OS X on Intel, Version 1.0 will NOT work, so you need [...]