Archive for the 'Cocoa' Category

Thursday Randomness

Thursday, March 1st, 2007

Kicking Bear Guy English, a developer for Rogue Amoeba kicked off a new Mac development blog this week. Whoo! Looks like a nice addition to the Cocoa Blogs landscape. iinnovate A couple Stanford students run this entrepreneurship podcast. Looks like a good addition to the listening lineup especially if you’re a fan of Entrepreneurial Thought […]

Cocoa-Java Porting Step 2: Life Support

Tuesday, February 20th, 2007

In the first part of this series, Triage, I talked about some of the earliest steps I took in the process of purchasing a Cocoa-Java application and porting it to Objective C. In this article, I’ll discuss some techniques I stumbled upon for working with a legacy Java code base while gradually migrating functionality to […]

Hexy Little Thing

Wednesday, February 14th, 2007

I’m working on an application now that uses a custom document format. Since my code manipulates this format and spits it back out to disk, I find myself frequently examining the resulting documents using Peter Ammon’s excellent Hex Fiend to examine the resulting files, and make sure the content is still format-compliant. But while I’m […]

C Is The New Assembly

Wednesday, February 14th, 2007

John Gruber was recently featured for a second time on Dan Benjamin’s instantly-awesome Hivelogic Podcast. I’m glad that Jesper heard and was intrigued by some of the same comments I was, because he reminded me that I wanted to comment on a subtle but worth-repeating impression that I took away. The comments are those pertaining […]