Mike Ash: “In my experience with various programmers over the years, I’ve realized that most of them fall into one of several cults which describe their behavior. I’ve compiled a list of cults and brief descriptions you can use to identify them.”
Mike Lee: “What if everyone in the Mac and development communities had matching plush lemurs?” Definitely a good cause, and of course tax-deductible.
MacSanta: “MacSanta 2007 is winding down, but you can still save 10% on hundreds of great Mac products. Purchase from the companies below and use coupon code MACSANTA07TEN to save 10% through the end of the year!”
Seth Dillingham: “People who use this hack are stealing money from the Icon Factory: they didn’t pay for the software, and they’re not showing the ads. In response, I just registered my copy.”
Theocacao: “I think it’s probably one of the most gentle, stress-free ways to learn the absolute basics of writing your first Cocoa app. It walks you through setting up a project in Xcode, creating a single window in Interface Builder, and testing out the result.”
John C. Welch: No, in fact I don’t think I’ll be letting this slide: “While I am normally happy to poke fun at the crazy, the stupid, and the like, there is a level of crazy that even I have the sense to just leave alone, at least under normal circumstances.”
Mike Lee: “I actually had a blast writing the iChat chapter, which was not one of my original chapters, and which I’m not even sure I got paid for. Not to put too fine a point on it, it’s a classic of western literature. It’s got a narrative, character-driven plot, which is to say, it’s full of lemurs.”
Congratulations to Mike on the publication of Mac OS X Leopard: Beyond the Manual!
Theocacao: “This interface succeeds because of two factors: the display is remarkably compact and the conventions are familiar. The entire user interface fits into a single palette.”
Congratulations to Red Sweater Software on the Macworld Eddy award for MarsEdit!
Nick Bradbury: “Oh, and I’ve been infected, too: I’m seriously thinking about buying a Mac Pro after FeedDemon 2.6 is released.”
Greg Reinacker: “I think Apple is in the middle of a bit of a perfect storm at the moment.”
Call Me Fishmeal: “First off, Lucas Newman is leaving Delicious Monster—as of January 1 he will be an iPhone engineer. This is an amazing opportunity for him, one I would never ask a friend to pass up.”
Congratulations to Lucas! We’re going to miss him in Seattle, but it gives us another good reason to visit California.
Theocacao: “You can now download the slides from the Building a Modern Mac OS X App talk I gave at CocoaHeads on Thursday.”
Theocacao: “Lucas Newman has posted a collection of three Core Animation sample projects. These examples stand out not only because they actually do interesting things, but the code is well-written and well commented.”
Seattle Xcoders: “December’s meeting is all about CoreAnimation. Lucas Newman, of Delicious Monster and iPhone hackery fame, is going to show a number of demonstrations and examples of CoreAnimation for us, and how to ‘make it go’.”
Not to be missed. The Woodstock of our time.
Fraser Speirs: “Interface Builder 3 on Leopard introduces a new file format: XIB. The developer experience of editing XIB files in Interface Builder is identical to editing a NIB file but, in many other ways a XIB is radically different from a NIB file.”
Greg Reinacker: “But the bottom line is, we want our consumer applications to be as ubiquitous as possible, while we continue to sell our software and services to businesses... and this new round of capital helps us expand our market and solidify our leadership.”
Shawn Blanc: “NetNewsWire is arguably the most popular desktop feed reader on the planet.”
Great review—I’m flattered and pleased. Shawn will also be doing reviews of other Mac apps (MarsEdit, Transmit, and others). Coming soon.
MacApper: “MarsEdit is one of those applications that you don’t think you will ever really need, but after you use it, you can’t live without it.”
Theocacao: “We look at improvements in the built-in views, Core Animation, Core Data, Objective-C 2.0, and a lot more. This was a great episode to do because we could finally get into all of the work that has gone into Leopard.”
Red Sweater: “Apple offers a tool called ‘atos’, which makes it relatively easy to map an address from a symbol-stripped application to a name in a symbol-laden version of that same application.”