Apple patents OS X Dock
Apple has patented the OS X Dock, nearly a decade after the operating system made its public debut with a new slant on the taskbar. The late... more »
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MacBeans: Native-looking NetBeans for OSX
If you know me you also know that I don't like NetBeans. In fact, I hate it. I hated it when it was called Forte CE and I hate it now. If by any... more »
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Apple Drops iPhone Non Disclosure Agreement (NDA)
Apple Drops iPhone Non Disclosure Agreement (NDA)
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Cocoa Touch Tutorial: iPhone Application Example
Similar to one of my first blog posts on building a basic application for Mac OS X using xcode 3.0, I am going to explain for beginning iPhone/iPod... more »
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Apple drops NDA for iPhone developers
Apple announced this morning via a posting on the front page of its iPhone developer site that it has decided to discontinue the non-disclosure... more »
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Flash for iPhone due 'soon' if Apple approves
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Adobe is nearly done with a version of its Flash Player for the iPhone that could be released 'in a very short time' if it passes Apple's App Store... more »
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Adobe Speaks of Flash Player for iPhone
The Internet pipes are chock full of reaction to the news that Adobe is “working on” a Flash player for the iPhone, much of it based on the weird... more »
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Pragmatic Programmers iPhone SDK book latest casualty of NDA
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The Pragmatic Programmers, known for its line of programming titles in print and PDF form, have decided to shelve production of a planned book called... more »
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Android vs. iPhone: No Contest for Developers
The official announcement of the first Android phone was naturally cause for much discussion on the Linux blogs last week. We take a look at the issue... more »
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Apple Has Learned The Importance of Play. We Should Too
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Joyful playful exploration is critical to learning.
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Flash for the iPhone confirmed at FOTB
Finally it's confirmed by Adobe officials. Flash on the IPhone is not impossible, it's reality.
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Mac Widgets for Java - 0.9.2
I’ve just released Mac Widgets for Java version 0.9.2. I’ve added a Heads Up Display (HUD) component and factored out the UI delegate from SourceList... more »
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The OS X Kernel is Open Source
I think people either don't know this or forget about it, but the OS X kernel environment is open source, which obviously is the core of the iPhone OS... more »
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The Heads Up Display (HUD) for Java
The Heads Up Display (HUD) offers a great way to unobtrusively show transient information. This type of window is offered via Apple’s Interface... more »
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Apple is listening
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Just a small positive note amongst the gloom of NDAs, app rejections and approval delays: Apple have today changed how the customer reviews system... more »
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Get Java 6 on 32-bit Intel Mac
Dying to have Java 6 on an older, non Core 2 Duo Intel Mac? You should get SoyLatte.
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Don’t alienate developers
My thoughts on Apple's latest controversy.
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Two Apps that Lower the iPhone Development Barrier
When the iPhone first launched, Steve Jobs announced that the web was the iPhone’s development platform. Despite the many initial groans that there... more »
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SoyLatte, Meet OpenJDK: OpenJDK 7 for Mac OS X
The long-term goal of the SoyLatte project was to ensure open, timely development of Java 7 for Mac OS X, with support for all recent versions of Mac... more »
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Mac Java Community
This community is for all things Macintosh and Java related. That may mean developing Java code on the Mac, with the various tools available to Mac... more »
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How Apple decides whether or not to put an app on the App Store. (cartoon)
It's true, we're not pulling your finger.
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Drawing gloss gradients in CoreGraphics
This post presents a function — DrawGlossGradient(CGContextRef context, NSColor *color, NSRect inRect) — that will draw a "gloss" gradient in a single... more »
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Get that sketchy look in your GUI mockups
Get that sketchy look in your GUI mockups
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HotCocoa Is Pretty Damn Hot
A few days ago, MacRuby 0.3 was released. If you haven’t heard about it before, MacRuby is an implementation of Ruby 1.9 running directly on top of... more »
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Bye bye, Mac OS X?
If you follow my blog, you know that I've a bad attitude towards Apple's gear, even though (or just because?) I've been an Apple user for three years... more »
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