| Beginners Guide: Programming Cocoa for OS X |
MacApper
| A few months back a friend asked me if I wanted to help work on a
small application for OS X. He figured because I had a long history of
Windows based programming I would have no trouble making the
transition to writing apps for Mac. Well he was wrong for obvious
reasons and I also found (unlike coding Windows apps) that the journey
to bring my skills up to par for Mac, was a greatly rewarding, yet
somewhat convoluted experience.
The Mac OS X Server community tends to be an odd one in the larger IT
world. It isn't because of the relative scarcity of our OS, or the
strange hardware, it's because the sysadmins are often not sysadmins.
The people tasked with Mac OS X Server are often educators, video
editors, or bus drivers who have been pressed into service as the Mac OS
X Server sysadmin; often for no reason more than they were reading
MacAddict at lunch. Because of this sysadmin conscription I often find
that the people waging the good fight lack training in the practices of
IT administration. Furthermore they are often not required to conform to
the practices of the organization as a whole since they are running
"Those MAC servers..." and are excluded.
| Apple to ditch IBM, switch to Intel chips | CNET
News.com
| Apple has used IBM's PowerPC processors since 1994, but will begin a
phased transition to Intel's chips, sources familiar with the
situation said. Apple plans to move lower-end computers such as the
Mac Mini to Intel chips in mid-2006 and higher-end models such as the
Power Mac in mid-2007, sources said.
| Apple debuts updated PowerBook line | MacNN
News
| Apple today introduced its new 15-inch PowerBook G4, offering a sleek
aluminum design weighing just 5.6 pounds, a 15.2-inch widescreen
display, speeds of up to 1.25GHz, a backlit keyboard, and advanced
connectivity including AirPort Extreme, Bluetooth, FireWire 800, USB
2.0 and Gigabit Ethernet. The new 15-inch PowerBook G4 starts at
$1,999. Apple also updated its other PowerBooks: the new 17-inch
model features a faster 1.33 GHz G4 processor with double the amount
of on-chip level 2 cache and is now available for $2,999, a $300
price reduction. The new 12-inch model features a 1GHz G4 processor
and includes a Digital Video Interface (DVI) port.