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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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