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On this day in 1996, Apple acquired NeXT (Updated)

by Steven Sande (Dec 20th, 2011)

Updated to clarify that 10.0 was the first official client version of Mac OS X, and that Mac OS X Server shipped prior to its release. On this day, December 20, just fifteen years ago, Apple paid $400 million to purchase NeXT. That's the move that brought Steve Jobs back to the company he ...

Found Footage: Apple introduces Cocoa at the 1996 WWDC

by Steven Sande (Aug 3rd, 2011)

In case you're thinking this footage is about Cocoa, the Application Programming Interface for Mac OS X, you're dead wrong. This Cocoa was a simulation tool and easy programming language for kids that was demoed at the 1996 WWDC by a young man named Gregory Miller. Miller does an admirable ...

Apple posts free developer documentation for iBooks users

by Steven Sande (Dec 19th, 2010)

If your resolutions for 2011 include teaching yourself to be a Mac or iOS developer, then Apple just gave you a very nice Christmas present. According to a tip from our old friend Nik Fletcher at Realmac Software, Apple has recently put a number of Apple Developer Publications books into the ...

TUAW at Big Nerd Ranch: Aaron Hillegass

by Brett Terpstra (Feb 7th, 2010)

More coverage of TUAW's inside look at developer boot camp. See below for notes & disclaimer. On my last day at Big Nerd Ranch, I got a chance to sit down with with the biggest nerd at the ranch, Aaron Hillegass, and talk about nerds, NextStep, the iPad and more. Aaron has a unique vantage point ...

TUAW at Big Nerd Ranch: now taking (app) requests!

by Brett Terpstra (Feb 3rd, 2010)

More coverage of TUAW's inside look at developer boot camp. See below for notes & disclaimer. It's Wednesday at Big Nerd Ranch. I'll get to meet a few of the personalities behind the ranch today, as well as meet up with some blogger friends from Atlanta. Victor is even going to stop by ... it's ...

TUAW at Big Nerd Ranch: cabin tour

by Brett Terpstra (Feb 3rd, 2010)

More coverage of TUAW's inside look at developer boot camp. See below for notes & disclaimer. This is a quick video I shot on Sunday. It's a quick tour of my cabin, just to show you what the lodging and amenities at the Big Nerd Ranch look like. Participants don't spend a lot of time in their ...

TUAW at Big Nerd Ranch: meet Joe Conway

by Brett Terpstra (Feb 2nd, 2010)

More coverage of TUAW's inside look at developer boot camp. See below for notes & disclaimer. It's Tuesday at Big Nerd Ranch, and we're deep into writing simple apps for our iPhones. Once Mark Fenoglio had finished teaching us some fundamentals of C and Objective-C, Joe Conway took over as ...

TUAW at Big Nerd Ranch: Mark Fenoglio

by Brett Terpstra (Jan 31st, 2010)

More coverage of TUAW's inside look at developer boot camp. See below for notes & disclaimer. I'm on my second day at Big Nerd Ranch, settling in and getting some blogging done between 3-hour lectures on Objective-C fundamentals. I sat down with our first instructor, Mark Fenoglio, last night to ...

TapLynx media-based iPhone app builder from NewsGator released

by Jason Clarke (Oct 16th, 2009)

The iPhone app platform TapLynx from NetNewsWire was released yesterday, after months of anticipation. TapLynx provides you with a way to build media-rich iPhone applications without having to write any code. It's basically NetNewsWire's way of leveraging their RSS expertise along with their iPhone ...

Is the future of Mac...the iPhone?

by Erica Sadun (Sep 15th, 2009)

I was chatting with my TUAW colleagues this morning about Mac versus iPhone programming. And as per usual with these conversations, we veered in the direction of unfettered speculation. It's an occupational hazard. As someone who regularly develops on both platforms, I declared that the iPhone ...

Earn a certificate in iPhone and Cocoa Development from the University of Washington

by Victor Agreda, Jr. (Aug 10th, 2009)

If you've already got a degree or a little knowledge in programming and you're looking to get in on the iPhone app craze (or maybe you wish to write a Mac app -- many people still do) you may want to look at the University of Washington in Seattle. They are now offering a certificate program in ...

The iPhone is a platform for coding newbies

by Mike Schramm (Apr 27th, 2009)

I love hearing this about the iPhone: the San Francisco Chronicle has a piece about how Apple's little revolutionary telephone has brought a whole new crop of programmers into the development mix. People who had never before looked at code or considered writing their own applications are getting ...

iPhone Dev 101: Useful Cocoa Development Resources

by Cory Bohon (Mar 25th, 2009)

It has been a while since the last iPhone Dev 101 post (and I must apologize for that -- sometime life can get in the way of different things, and this was one of those times). In this Dev 101 post, I want to take you through a few of my favorite resources for Cocoa/iPhone development. Some of these ...

Cocotron lets you develop in Cocoa for Windows, with a little extra work

by Mike Schramm (Nov 3rd, 2008)

It kind of sounds like a developer's dream: create an app in Cocoa that automatically works on Windows, too. But that's what Cocotron promises, and the folks at Ecamm say the dream is there, even if it requires a lot of elbow grease. They tried using Cocotron to port an app called FileMagnet, and ...

Cocotron: bringing Cocoa to Windows

by Mat Lu (Oct 28th, 2008)

Cocotron is a potentially exciting open-source project that "aims to implement a cross-platform Objective-C API similar to that described by Apple Inc.'s Cocoa documentation." What this means is that, in principle, Cocotron would allow an OS X Cocoa app written in Xcode to be easily cross-compiled ...