Category Archives: objc

WWDC aside

Posted on 2008-06-11 by Graham Lee

None of Perl, Cocoa or some weird XML toolkit came up with the “simple things simple, complex things possible” quote.

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ObjC FAQ update

Posted on 2008-06-10 by Graham Lee

Added a question about the ObjC 2.0 garbage collector. Sorry it’s been so long in coming! I’ll try and add a few more ObjC 2.0 questions over the coming days.

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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 →

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Little hack to help with testing

Posted on 2008-06-04 by Graham Lee

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 →

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Yeah, we’ve got one of those

Posted on 2008-04-24 by Graham Lee

Title linkey (which I discovered via slashdot) goes to an interview in DDJ with Paul Jansen, the creator of the TIOBE Programmer Community Index, which ranks programming languages according to their web presence (i.e. the size of the community interested … Continue reading →

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Nice things about ObjC

Posted on 2008-03-14 by Graham Lee

Title linkies to a post by an F-Script guy (the F-Script guy? I’m not sure, I don’t really follow F-Script development) about nice things he likes about the Objective-C language. Remembering that he wrote a Smalltalk scripting environment for Cocoa, … Continue reading →

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How to solve every problem in Cocoa

Posted on 2008-01-23 by Graham Lee

Yes, really, every problem. Don’t think of Cocoa as "simple things simple, complex things possible" (actually, was it Cocoapenextstepsody or Perl who started with that tagline? Or someone else? I digress) but "simple things simple, complex things simple but you’re … Continue reading →

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Objective-C Design Patterns

Posted on 2007-12-08 by Graham Lee

Certain events at work have turned me into a bit of a design patterns geek of late, and as such I stumbled across this DDJ article from 1997 (the title of this post is the link). According to del.icio.us not … Continue reading →

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Why Java is so damned lame, part exp(I*M_PI)

Posted on 2007-02-08 by Graham Lee

Gah. Back when I used to work for Oxford University, I had to do the occasional bit of Java programming for a WebObjects app. Being quite a bit more familiar with ObjC than with Java, I always found this a … Continue reading →

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Sacrilege!

Posted on 2007-01-26 by Graham Lee

As I wrote the @interface to an object today, I found myself wanting for but one thing: – (NSArray <MyProtocol> *) foo; Where – as if you hadn’t guessed it – the pointy bracket bit (the lengths to which I … Continue reading →

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