An overview of Leopard for developers

Filed under: Analysis / Opinion, Software, Apple, Leopard, Developer

by Mike Schramm on Oct 29th 2007

If you haven't seen this roundup yet, Matt Gemmell's huge list of everything Leopard can do for developers is pretty amazing. It's a bit on the technical side, but worry not-- about 1/4 of the way down the page you'll think that this is a list only for developers, and if you keep scrolling you'll start to see that (somewhere around the "HUD windows" part) Apple has broken open almost all of their interfaces to developers of all makes and models. Everything from menus to date formatting is updated in Leopard's developer applications, and there's lots of "freebies" that will make even smaller programs better-- icons and images, an image editor, and a built-in grammar checker can all be easily implemented in any Leopard apps.

As hot as this operating system is (and yes, despite the problems that folks are having with it), the really good stuff is yet to come. When talented programmers and designers get their hands on these tools, then we'll really see why it's so great to be a Mac user.

Thanks, Tony!

Tags: awesome, developer, icons, image-editor, leopard, list, matt-gemmell, overview, tools, xcode

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Reader Comments (Page 1 of 1)

Crouching Leopard, Hidden Dragthing said 6:14AM on 10-30-2007

Oh noes! I has problem wiv Lepard. My wurdz has green skwiggles.

I can has grammer modjewel for LOLcats?

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Rhywun said 8:29AM on 10-30-2007

Apple's developer documentation on all this is still a bit lacking. And the lack of (recent) books and tutorials makes it difficult to get into Mac programming as much as I want to.

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Phil said 11:31AM on 10-30-2007

Anyone know when we can expect Java 6?

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Neil said 12:51PM on 10-30-2007

Regarding Java 6 there's a good timeline of Apple's typical OS to JRE release dates available at http://stuffthathappens.com/blog/2007/10/28/os-x-java-definitive-timeline/

Oh and thanks to Matt for that very informative write up.

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