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November 22, 2003

Great Mac OS Development Presentation

This is a great write-up of a presentation by Steve Kalkwarf of Bare Bones Software (authors of the amazing BBEdit text edit for the Mac). Steve gave a talk at the O'Reilly Mac OS X conference entitled "Incredibly Obvious Software Development Secrets" that covers a lot of terrific tips for improving your development practices (many of which are not specific to OS X).

Posted by Brian at 7:03 PM |

Creating PDFs in MacOS X

Also from Cocoa Dev Central comes this tutorial on creating PDF files using OS X's built-in support for the format. It also covers creating multi-page PDFs and paginating your content.

Posted by Brian at 6:57 PM |

A Web Browser in Zero Lines of Code

Cocoa Dev Center shows off the power of Apple's Webkit framework and the OS X visual development tools by creating a functional web browser with 1 line of code. ALSO, if you read the comments of that article, you'll see that you can actually create a browser without writing a single line of code. Awesome!

Posted by Brian at 6:53 PM |

Xcode Clippings Menu

Xcode Clippings Menu is a plug-in for Xcode, the core component of Apple's new developer tools for OS X. The plug-in adds a new "Clippings" menu to Xcode allowing developers to quickly gain access to snippets of code and other text resources directly from the Xcode menu bar.

Posted by Brian at 6:39 PM |