(Highly geeky post ahead. You’ve been warned!)
I have found the very message that summarizes the beauty of Cocoa in a single word; see by yourselves, hereunder in line 47:
#import
// The interface of a person
@interface Person : NSObject {
NSString* firstName;
NSString* lastName;
int age;
}
@end
// The [...]
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This is an evening project that turned out to be really cool. Let’s say that you’re a Macromedia Flash designer, and your clients ask you to bundle your nice Flash movie as a screen saver. What to do? For Windows there are free utilities to convert a SWF into a screen saver, but not for [...]
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Il y a de moments clés dans l’histoire de la technologie. Hier soir, vers 18h (heure suisse), il s’est produit l’un de ces moments. Apple a dévoilé un SDK (Software Development Kit) pour l’iPhone, et le monde du développement logiciel mobile ne sera plus jamais le même. Voici pourquoi.
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There’s an interesting discussion going on these days on Ruby blogs about, basically, how to avoid one of the most common, annoying, easy-to-create bugs in any programming language: calling a method on a null reference (or pointer, depending on your language).
This single issue happens all the time, in garbage-collected and non-managed languages, static and dynamic, [...]
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Just found this nice e-book about Core Graphics transitions:
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Lately I got curious to know how could I grab the entire desktop of my computer, and save it into a file, or display it into an NSImageView component. I started to look around on the web and discovered that:
There’s no direct support for that in Cocoa
There’s a lot of different ways to do it, [...]
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Somewhere I read that it was a good thing to learn at least one new programming language every year; I think I have kept up that trend since 1992:
1992: QBasic
1993: Turbo Pascal
1994: C
1995: Delphi
1996: Java
1997: JavaScript
1998: VBScript
1999: Transact-SQL
2000: C# and Prolog
2001: C++
2002: PHP
2003: Objective-C
2004: Visual Basic.NET
2005: Ruby
And this year’s winner is: LINQ. The main purpose [...]
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I haven’t blogged for a while, having been in Argentina and Bolivia seeing family and friends; now back to Switzerland!
Just a small blog entry for those that have installed MySQL 4.1 or 5 in Mac OS X, and have trouble using CocoaMySQL to use it properly: I found this website where somebody has modified the [...]
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I wanted to update recently Ruby on Rails to version 0.14.3 (the final 1.0 release seems to be closer than ever) on my Mac, under Mac OS X Tiger 10.4.3 with Xcode 2.2 (the latest version) installed. Well, it turns out to be quite difficult.
First of all, I tried the classic method “sudo gem update” [...]
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This article is a copy of a research work I did today, to draw a map of today’s development technologies. It is not finished (it will never be, actually) but I think it is rather interesting. Hope you find it interesting too :)
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