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January 27, 2007
In response to the comments on the lifehacker post about Growl
So Growl was featured on LifeHacker today. I would generally post a response to anything that seems to be a question in a blog. However, lifehacker is super lame. They require that you be invited to comment. I have no intention of asking everyone I know on the internet for an invite, so I'm just going to post my responses here.
The responses:
@tomfrost - QuickSilver will not download artwork from amazon if there is artwork missing from the id3 tag
@rusharound - You were more than likely using a display that utilized webkit, which causes much higher resource usage than otherwise. If you use smoke/bubbles/brushed/bezel you will not be using a webkit display. Music Video has a known leak we are trying to track down for 1.1
@everyone who wants a windows port - I've humored this for years. I no longer care to. If someone wants to do it, that'd be great. Snarl is probably your best bet though.
Posted by Chris Forsythe at 12:01 AM | Comments (0)
January 20, 2007
About pragma mark
So in the challenge this week, if you are following along on the summary page, I suggested to start using pragma mark and pragma in general.
I was even going to make a screencast about it tomorrow. It was scheduled.
However, my good friend Peter Hosey beat me to the punch. here is his explanation of how to use #pragma mark, in silent movie format. I hope this clears things up for you if any of you had any questions about it.
Also, be sure to read the comments for info about other uses of pragma.
Posted by Chris Forsythe at 10:39 PM | Comments (2)
January 18, 2007
Podcast interview
So Scott over at the Late Night Cocoa site interviewed me for his first podcast show.
One thing to note when you listen to this. I said "model view controller" at one point where I meant "master-detail interface". I have no idea why I said the first, but that should make way more sense when you listen to it.
Anyhow, here it is.
Posted by Chris Forsythe at 10:37 AM | Comments (0)
January 17, 2007
The weekly cocoa app challenge, week 3
So this week I decided to reimplement the challenge from week 1. Be sure to set the alternate image.
As always, discussion is welcome on #cocoa on freenode.
Dude Menu is this weeks challenge.
Posted by Chris Forsythe at 01:24 PM | Comments (18)
January 16, 2007
Source for weekly challenge number 2
Here's the source. Have fun.
Posted by Chris Forsythe at 11:48 PM | Comments (4)
January 08, 2007
The weekly cocoa app challenge, week 2
Check out that sweet icon too:
Be sure to keep your work handy, I'll probably be expanding on it.
Posted by Chris Forsythe at 09:21 PM | Comments (17)
irc channel to discuss the challenges
I've always held onto #cocoa on freenode for some reason, and this seems as good as any.
Anyhow, if you would like to discuss the challenges with others, get onto irc.freenode.net #cocoa
If you are not familiar with irc, try Colloquy
Posted by Chris Forsythe at 09:17 PM | Comments (0)
Source for weekly challenge number 1
As promised, here is the source for the weekly challenge, for week number 1:
Posted by Chris Forsythe at 09:14 PM | Comments (0)
Macworld irc channel
For those interested, there's a macworld channel setup on freenode for the rest of the week:
irc.freenode.net
#mwsf2007
or for those who need it
irc://irc.freenode.net/mwsf2007
Posted by Chris Forsythe at 08:05 AM | Comments (0)
January 06, 2007
Weekly Cocoa Challenge web page
I went ahead and made a summary page for the Weekly Cocoa Challenge.
It's here: Weekly Cocoa Challenge
Posted by Chris Forsythe at 12:41 AM | Comments (0)
January 03, 2007
The weekly cocoa app challenge, week 1
So for a while now I've always been saying the best way to learn something is to keep trying it. For Cocoa I've been working on things called "stupid apps". Basically these are a set of applications that perform 1-2 tasks, help me learn a new thing, and allows me to continue evolving with Cocoa.
So the rules:
1) I will post a new mini "stupid" app once every week or two. Some weeks I get super busy, so I may skip a week every once in a while.
2) If you are learning Cocoa, you try to reimplement the application. I won't be including readmes or anything so you'll also need to figure out the functionality, the api used, and the general goal of the app.
3) When I post a new app, I will also post source code for the previous app.
Got it? If you don't, post a comment.
Anyhow, here's the first app. Have fun:
Good luck, feel free to ask questions in the comments as well.
Posted by Chris Forsythe at 10:36 PM | Comments (22)