Borkware Rants

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What we're thinking about right now

MarkD wrote a bunch of the BOLTS (Brave Os x, Learn Techy Stuff) features over at MacEdition. Links to those, as well as locally published rants are here. You can see MarkD ranting in-person at the Big Nerd Ranch's Core Bootcamp class, and read more about programming in the book Core Mac OS X and Unix Programming

Mac Programming

• OpenGL at the Ranch, a review of the Big Nerd Ranch OpenGL course. (November 10, 2006)

• A Better NSLog(), a special Guest Rant by AgentM. (February 14, 2005)

• Making Inspectors for NSDocuments, using NSWindowController to make a shared inspector window. (February 4, 2005)

• STUC on You, using the Scsi Toolkit User Client to read data off of DAT tapes. (January 9, 2005)

• Undology 101, Undo in Cocoa at MacEdition. There are some small support files as well. (November 12, 2003)

• Eeek! XML!, published at MacEdition. There are some small support files as well. (June 10, 2003)

• The machine that goes ping (or, Being stuck in the MIDI of it all), published at MacEdition (April 10, 2003)

• Sound-off, Part 2, published at MacEdition. There's support files (including source code) on our sound page (May 9, 2003)

• Grumpy Code? gdb it!, published at MacEdition (February 10, 2003)

• Memory corruption and malloc tools, published at MacEdition (December 10, 2002)

• Yet another Mac OS X command line introduction, published at MacEdition (August 5, 2002)

• Arrrr! Avast ye screen savers, published at MacEdition, talking about writing screen savers. There's also a part 2 (May 14, 2002)

• Cooca Development in Emacs
  (also republished at MacEdition)

• Cool Stuff in Cocoa / Objective C

Unix Stuff

• Cheesy Web Backups using Rsync. This is how I backup this website. (December 31, 2003)

• Xs! They're Everywhere!, an overview of X11 at MacEdition. (July 15, 2003)

• (a few) Productivity Tips For The Unix User, published at MacEdition (March 10, 2003)

• AOLserver Virtual Hosting with TCP (Februrary 11, 2003)

• OpenACS and you (or, "Mental Hygiene for the Internet generation"), published at MacEdition (February 7, 2003

• OpenACS on Mac OS X Quickstart (December 2, 2002)

• All your versions are belong to you: An introduction to CVS, published at MacEdition (October 16, 2002)

Other Stuff

• Importing MIDI files into GarageBand. (January 21, 2004)

• About the Site, a little peek behind the scenes. (June 16, 2003)