Scotty does his best to explain the whys, hows and what’s of all the changes at The Mac Developer Network.
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As of the 1st of January 2009 the Developer Lives Podcast is now FREE
Explains what’s changed at the new MDN website
PREMIUM EPISODE: Scotty interviews Mike Taylor on porting large applications to the Mac platform
See everything thats coming from the Mac Developer Network in January 2009
This months roundtable give advice on how best to get up and running with cocoa. The roundtable is made up of Scotty, Colin Wheeler, Danny Greg, Justin Miller, Mitch Cohen and Brent Simmons
Today (no Pun Intended) I am pleased to announce we have yet another discount for MDN members. This time it’s 20% off Today from Second Gear
I am currently having an issue with the membership system meaning it may take a few hours for a membership to become active once paid for. I am working on fixing this but would appreciate your patience while I get it sorted.
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Scotty
JRFeedbackProvider is a nonviral (MIT license) drop-in source code package which provides an in-application user feedback mechanism for Cocoa apps.
Get it here
Take the concept of Quick Look and squish it into a text field; It’s called the MondoTextField. It’s not called a QuickLookTextField because you don’t just look at the content. With the MondoTextField you look, possibly edit and then close the surrogate window.
It has been said that over 80% of bugs are related to memory problems. Understanding and implementing robust memory management practices in your application will reduce bugs and improve the efficiency of your application.
If you are used to programming in languages such as Basic where memory management is not an issue or if you are used to the raw memory management practices of C and C++ then you will need to change your thinking to work with Objective-C’s reference counted memory management.
This course walks you through Objective-C’s memory management techniques using over 86 minutes of video. By time you finish watching and implementing the techniques described in this course you will be able to develop robust leak free Objective-C applications.
Many application take advantage of the Mac OS X status bar to report their status or allow fast access to key program features.
This short video course will show you how to add your own text and images to the status bar and respond to actions performed upon it.
