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by donmcc 14y ago
Kochan's "Programming in Objective-C" is decent http://www.amazon.com/Programming-Objective-C-Edition-Develo... and I'm a big fan of Erica Sadun's "iOS 5 Developer's Cookbook" http://www.amazon.com/The-iOS-Developers-Cookbook-ebook/dp/B.
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by donmcc 14y ago
The Passbook app struck me as a big deal.
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by donmcc 15y ago
Awesome! Thanks for the example. Painfully long but a lot easier to understand in situ than something like CreateWindow().
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by donmcc 15y ago
True, "verbose" isn't really the correct term, "explicit" better describes Objective-C. Here's an example where I think Objective-C's explicitness is helpful. The Windows API CreateWindow() function call in C: HWND hwnd = CreateWindow(
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by donmcc 15y ago
You do get used to it. Because it's a superset of C, Objective-C has all the syntactic noise of C and some of its own. Ruby is certainly more compact, though with its Perl influence, you can write very cryptic Ruby code. You do pay a price
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by donmcc 15y ago
The idea is that code is written once but read many times. Objective-C's verbose naming make you work a little more when writing it (though a good programmer's editor or IDE like Xcode or AppCode greatly eases this) but it pays off each tim
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The year ahead for Apple: the iPad dominates (and Apple TV))(blog.ablepear.com)
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Avoid agile dogma: recommendations not rules(blog.ablepear.com)
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Great Geek Gift: Making Embedded Systems(blog.ablepear.com)
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Objective-C Tuesdays: Sorting Arrays(blog.ablepear.com)
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Mobile + Cloud + Social: the biggest wave of growth, change, and destruction(mondaynote.com)
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Deciphering what the $%$ Entrepreneurs Really Need to Know about Investors(xconomy.com)
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Steve Jobs didn’t(asymco.com)
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It seems too soon to lose Steve. There's yet so much more to do...(blog.ablepear.com)
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Why is there no iPhone 5?(asymco.com)
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Scalable realtime stats with Graphite(blog.adku.com)
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IOS vs. Microsoft: Comparing the bottom lines(asymco.com)
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Apple dumps Intel from laptop lines(semiaccurate.com)
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Mike Ash on Automatic Reference Counting in Objective-C(mikeash.com)
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Could I take down a T. rex with my Beretta 9mm pistol?(straightdope.com)
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Smart cities get their own operating system(bbc.co.uk)
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You’re Doing it Wrong: Common HTML Tag Misuses(line25.com)
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The Facebook Chart That Freaks Google Out(allthingsd.com)
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"Stop Thinking": Kent Beck on Horizontal and Vertical Refactoring(threeriversinstitute.org)
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by donmcc 15y ago
I think Gruber would elaborate by mentioning that garbage collection has a real and measurable cost in terms of performance and Apple would rather have a development environment that allows devs to produce the smoothest UI performance over
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The Unfamiliar (Objective-C & Cocoa)(daringfireball.net)
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Objective-C Fundamentals book(manning.com)
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A Hodgepodge of Python(blog.adku.com)
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Review: Continuous Delivery by Jez Humble and David Farley(itwriting.com)
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The easiest way to add unit test to your application(blog.tabini.ca)
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