Archive for January, 2009
NSNotification & NSNotificationCenter
Jan 28th
Below you will find the slides and accompanying sample project that I presented at the January 2008 CocoaHeads meeting in Syracuse, NY. I posted both the Keynote presentation and the PDF export of said presentation. Because it was an informal gathering I decided to use a few of the Keynote transitions that are fun, but maybe a little over the top. If this kind of thing bugs you, rock out the PDF version, it just has the slides.
Also, during the meeting a few folks asked about playing sounds and doing speech synthesis, so you will see simple examples of those technologies used in the sample project as well.
NSNotification and NSNotificationCenter (zipped up Keynote version)
NSNotification and NSNotificationCenter (PDF version)
cocoaFusion:The new podcast all about Cocoa
Jan 11th
For those of you waiting for the next great thing in Cocoa development podcasts I humbly submit cocoaFusion:.
cocoaFusion: is hosted by Kevin Hoctor of MoneyWell fame, and Danny Greg the lead developer on Realmac Software’s most recent release, LittleSnapper. The pair decided to start a podcast of their own after being introduced on one of Scotty’s excellent Mac Developer Network shows.
The idea behind cocoaFusion: is for each Kevin and Danny to cover a coding problem that they’ve faced down since the last episode. The first episode has Kevin relating his experiences with NSDateFormatter while Danny goes in depth on NSPredicateEditor.
While the pair admits to some rough edges in the first episode, the overall quality of the show’s production and the ease with which Danny and Kevin relate to each other makes for a fantastic show that’s a pleasure to listen to.
cocoaFusion: can be found on the web at cocoafusion.net and in iTunes by following this link.
If you’d like to hear more from Kevin you can read his blog, Entrepreneurial Seduction or follow him on Twitter.
Danny’s musings can be found on his blog at dannygreg.com and also on his Twitter page.
