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Category Archives: cocoa
Cocoa#, Mono and Me
My great application: Yeah, OK, not so great. But this Inverse Hoffman is the result of a couple of hours hacking in Mono, with Cocoa#. My app’s largely based on the Stupid Word Counter tutorial, though it’s a from-scratch implementation … Continue reading
Objective-C NAQs
Never-Asked Questions :-) In Code Complete 2 ยง6.5, Steve McConnell presents a list of class-related design issues that "vary significantly depending on the language". So why don’t we look at them for Objective-C? Especially as I can’t find anyone else … Continue reading
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WWDC day three
Today was not quite a full day, so I managed to spend about an hour or so milling around Yerba Buena park, doing a little gift shopping and generally existing outside of the Mascarpone centre. Also put in another update … Continue reading
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WWDC aside
None of Perl, Cocoa or some weird XML toolkit came up with the “simple things simple, complex things possible” quote.
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WWDC – day one
The WWDC keynote is always an odd event to attend. It’s put on for the benefit of the investors and the media, with the developers being invited purely to act as braying masses expressing their adulation for His Steveness. It’s … Continue reading
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WWDC part 0
well, here it is, the pre-WWDC “I’m jetlagged so you have to put up with my wittering” post. I’m just waiting for a softwareupdate to finish so that I can go out with my camera, taking some early-morning pictures before … Continue reading
Little hack to help with testing
Want the ability to switch in different test drivers, mock objects, or other test-specific behaviour? Here’s a pattern I came up with (about a year ago) to do that in a GNUstep test tool, which can readily be used in … Continue reading
Tracking the invisible, moving, unpredictable target
An idea which has been creeping up on me from the side over the last couple of weeks hit me square in the face today. No matter what standards we Cocoa types use to create our user interfaces, the official … Continue reading
