When newcomers to programming on the Mac ask me for advice about getting started with Cocoa, I usually boil it down to three steps, depending on the amount of time and money they are prepared to put into the task:
If you’re the slightest bit curious, buy Mark Dalrymple and Scott Knaster’s affordable book, Learn Objective-C [...]
Unit testing is a good idea. Ask any random developer what they think about unit testing and you’re likely to get one of four responses:
I don’t know what they are.
I love them! You should always use them!
I hate them! You should never use them!
I appreciate them, but I’m lazy and don’t use them that much.
Of [...]
Manton and I sat down to chat about everything under the sun, but inevitably everything turned to Apple’s newly launched AppStore for iPhone and iPod touch.
In the podcast I mentioned a funny picture I had seen of many copies of Sudoku installed on the same iPhone. I mistakenly (tentatively, though!) credited Glenn Fleishman as the [...]
Joel Spolsky has a remarkable track record of speaking truth to programmers on his blog: Joel On Software. Occasionally he says something with which I disagree, but usually it’s on a subtle point, or it’s an issue where his passion for doing things one way is motivated by his preferred platforms: Windows and the [...]
My name is Daniel Jalkut. I'm a Mac software developer and founder of Red Sweater Software, LLC.
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