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Category Archives: Cocoa
Mac Programmer Meeting in Northern Virginia – November 17th
We’re having a meeting of the Programming SIG of the Washington Apple Pi, which is the big local Mac users group in the area. It should be fun. The group started rewriting a Cocoa app using Core Data and Bindings … Continue reading
Posted in Cocoa, Mac OS X, Programming
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Finally found a DC Mac Programming Group
Last week, I finally found a DC Mac Programming Group. It is the Programming SIG of the Washington Apple Pi (WAP), which is the big Mac Users Group in the area. We met over in Reston, VA in a _really_ … Continue reading
I’m at WWDC 2005
It’s less than an hour until Steve Job’s keynote and the place is buzzing. There is a HUGE line to get into the keynote. Its like they released Star Wars Episode 7 or there was a release of The Hobbit. … Continue reading
Posted in Cocoa, Conferences
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Calling all Mac developers in Washington DC / Virginia / Maryland
I want to start up a Mac developer group in the DC Area that would bring together Mac programmers, focusing on Cocoa. I figure that there must be several of us out there, but we just don’t know each other … Continue reading
Iterating over OrderedCollections
One of the things you want to do after having an OrderedCollection (aka List or Array) is to iterate over the elements. I’ll look at the languages I’m interested in: Smalltalk, Java, Objective-C, Ruby, Python, and C#. First off, Smalltalk. … Continue reading
Posted in Cocoa, Desktop Java, Programming, Rails
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Comparison of OrderedCollections in Smalltalk, Java, Objective-C, Ruby, Python, and C#
In my last post, I compared the collections classes at a high level. Now I’m diving into the one that is most often used, the OrderedCollection. What’s an OrderedCollection? It is the collection class in Smalltalk that supports ordering. Seems … Continue reading
Posted in Cocoa, Desktop Java, Programming, Rails
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Comparison of Collections in Smalltalk, Java, Objective-C, Ruby, Python, and C#
Why look at collection classes? Well, after reading a bit about the language syntax and writing “Hello World”, I think the next thing you should learn about a language/framework is its Collections classes. Its one of the things that makes … Continue reading
Posted in Cocoa, Desktop Java, Programming, Rails
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Why did I add Cocoa and Rails?
Astute readers may have noticed that the title of this blog changed this past month from “Eclipse/Java Programming on Mac OS X” to “Cocoa, Eclipse, and Rails Programming on Mac OS X”. Good thing I didn’t put in Panther in … Continue reading
I’m going to WWDC 2005!
I did it. I booked my hotel, my flight, and then signed up early for WWDC 2005 with the Tiger Early Start Kit. Getting that “kit” means that you’re an ADC Select member, where you get beta relases, a special … Continue reading
Posted in Cocoa, Conferences, Mac OS X
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Back from a week of studying Cocoa
As a wise man (Brent Simmons of NetNewsWire fame) once said in a blog post explaining MySQL to Frontier users: “Old programmer’s philosophy: if you work primarily (or exclusively) in one environment, it’s a good idea to learn about others. … Continue reading
Posted in Cocoa, Programming
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