Real iPhone Crap 2: initWithNibName:bundle: is the designated initializer of UIViewController
iOSBefore I go into another shortcoming of UIKit, I’d like to make it plain that I genuinely like most of UIKit. In...
Real iPhone Crap 1: UINibLoading uses Key-Value Coding
iOSLast week, my colleague Joe Conway wrote a posting suggesting that dot-notation was not a great addition to the Objective-C language and that he...
Aaron Hillegass on the Cocoa Text System
MacAs a preview of our Cocoa 2 Bootcamp, I did a presentation on the Cocoa Text System for the Atlanta CocoaHeads. Here...
Scott Ritchie works for us!
Big Nerd Ranch has a reputation for mind-blowingly excellent Cocoa and iPhone training. A reputation like this is difficult to maintain. In...
Parsing XML in Cocoa
MacWe apologize for the missing content on this page. You can find other posts on XML and related topics at our blog.
Cocoa Programming for Mac OS X 3rd Edition
MacMy editor at Addison-Wesley wrote me today. He says that 6000 copies of “Cocoa Programming for Mac OS X, 3rd Edition” are on...
PagePacker 1.3
MacSome small fixes – some users complained that the top and bottom margins were too large, so I’ve made the call: All modern printers...
BigShow
Conferences MacAt Big Nerd Ranch, we follow a pretty minimal style for our slides. It is important to us, however, that our slide shows go...
PagePacker Open-Sourced
MacI am celebrating the arrival of Mac OS X 10.5 by making the source code to PagePacker available. Here is the compiled application.
Cocoa and OpenBase
MacI am speaking this week at the OpenBase Summit 2007. I am doing a short introduction to Cocoa. Most of the people...
Reviews of Django Bootcamp
Juan Pablo Claude recently taught the Big Nerd Ranch’s new “Django Bootcamp” at the offices of the Atlanta Journal-Constitution. The engineers in the...
A Scooter Nerd’s Top 10
While zipping around town on this beautiful spring day, I noticed that nearly all of the cars were occupied by exactly one person. Why,...
