Jeff's Cocoa Journal

Accessor methods revisited. Stepwise.com on writing Cocoa accessor methods. [ranchero.com]

Writing accessor methods may not be as simple as you thought. Especially if you are writing a multi-threaded application.

Open Source Icons for OS X. Xicons.com “is an enthusiastic supporter of Open Source software. We are pleased to announce the launch of our new open source icon category.” [ranchero.com]

I'm really looking forward to this. I am not at all an artist and it seems silly to have a beautiful Aqua interface with stick-figure icons for toolbars, etc.

On Aquafying Office. O’Reilly interviews Ivor St. John Clarke, formerly the program manager in charge of guiding Office’s transition to Aqua. [ranchero.com]

Had a slight scare today. I got back from vacation and my PowerBook (my primary development machine) would not accept AC power. Once the battery ran out, that was it. Luckily, Fry's had a PowerBook AC adapter in stock and all is well again.

Comparing NSStrings numerically provides source code for an NSString category which compares strings with embedded numbers. For example, it will sort a list of filenames as

pic1.gif, pic8.gif, pic9.gif, pic12.gif instead of sorting them as

pic1.gif, pic12.gif, pic8.gif, pic9.gif as a more traditional comparison would.

Understanding the design behind Cocoa’s Foundation classes. CocoaDevCentral on the patterns used in the Foundation classes. [ranchero.com]

This article covers mutable vs. immutable containers, the different container types, container enumerators and strings.

Hello!

My name is Jeff Gilbert. I have been writing Macintosh software for about 11 years, mainly using C++ (and some Object Pascal in the beginning).

I have heard many good things about Objective-C and the Cocoa application framework for developing Mac OS X applications quickly and easily. So, I decided to explore Cocoa in my spare time by writing a new application -- a narrowly-focused accounting application for someone I know.

This weblog will chronicle my experience as a first-time Cocoa developer. I plan to write about interesting problems I encounter, post helpful code snippets and pointers to other useful Cocoa-related information I find on the web.

To create this weblog I am using the wonderful Radio UserLand weblog tool from Dave Winer and the fine folks at UserLand Software.

I would also like to thank Rob Fahrni for gently nudging me to start this weblog.