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How to make people give up programming

Posted on 13/08/2011 by Extelligent Cocoa

In which Apple breaks Core Data and leaves me with an invisible, undeletable data store that is messing up development and which cost me several hours of my life. Which I want back. Continue reading →

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The Snow Leopard Has Landed

Posted on 30/07/2011 by Extelligent Cocoa

I’ve upgraded my main OS from Tiger to Snow Leopard – I will continue to dual boot, but this means that I’ll have more opportunities to dabble in Xcode, and it also means that I’m moving wholly to garbage-collected code. … Continue reading →

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Resources: Booklisting

Posted on 12/04/2011 by Extelligent Cocoa

http://www.igor-delovski.iz.hr/forum/viewtopic.php?p=3785 has a very long list of Cocoa (OS X/iPhone) books. It’s an exceedingly comprehensive list; many of these are books I hadn’t even heard of and wouldn’t have known how to look for them. Some of them just stand … Continue reading →

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Text Handling Overview

Posted on 02/04/2011 by Extelligent Cocoa

I’m posting this as a mainstream post instead of merely as code snippets because I want to talk about the _conceptual_ side of text-in-Cocoa. Apple might have a long and detailed guide but, as usual, it helps me to work … Continue reading →

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