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What's your objective in learning Objective-C? Is it the medium or the [message]?

By Andy Oram
June 18, 2009

At O'Reilly Media, we're looking for reader reactions to help guide our new books, workshops, conference sessions, etc. Is it a hurdle you have to leap or a start to a whole new programming style?

Actionscript to Cocoa - Prototyping in Flash for iPhone

By Michael Huntington
November 26, 2008

After months of being gagged and leashed, iPhone developers are now free to talk about the iPhone SDK. Apple has dropped their NDA and opened the flood gates to those new developers who thirst for iPhone programming knowledge. I feel that Actionscript developers will have an easier transition to Cocoa-Touch than developers coming from other languages. Being a long time Actionscript developer myself I found it easy to port from Flash to iPhone. Further down in this article I show how I built my app in Flash and the steps I took to port it over to Cocoa. But first, here’s why I believe the learning curve is very low for Actionscript developers.

Swapping Custom Views with RubyCocoa

By Eric Berry
October 29, 2008

Learn how to swap custom views using RubyCocoa in your interface.

RubyCocoa and NSTables De-Mystified

By Eric Berry
October 17, 2008

Screencast showing how to create a RubyCocoa application which pulls search results from Amazon using their Web API and populates a table.

New Cocoa Book

By Daniel H. Steinberg
September 19, 2008

One of the things I love about writing a book is it forces me to poke around into corners that I would otherwise just gloss over. My latest book on Cocoa Programming is no different -- I'm having a blast.

[Todd Ditchendorf:TODParseKit] A Mac OS X Parsing/Tokenizing Toolkit Written in Objective-C 2.0

By M. David Peterson
August 18, 2008

Basing his design on Steven Mesker's seminal work "Building Parsers with Java", Todd Ditchendorf has released the TODParseKit, a Mac OS X Parsing Framework written in Objective-C 2.0.

The Tools of the Trade

By Matt Twomey
July 28, 2008

In which I try not to gripe about the NDA (gripe-worthy though it may be) and instead look for answers to more basic questions about iPhone development and it's roots in OS X tools.

Ruby Cocoa

By Daniel H. Steinberg
June 5, 2008

Hey, you got Ruby in my Cocoa. Mmmm. Two great taste treats.

Cocoa Spaces

By Daniel H. Steinberg
March 27, 2008

Imagine giving your iPhone the power of a nearby eight-core Mac Pro.

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