The Early History of Smalltalk
Alan C. Kay’s The Early History of Smalltalk, courtesy Thomas Gagné. As I understand it, extensions to the C language were based on Smalltalk-80, to create the Objective-C language I’m learning right now.
Category: geek
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Peasant’s Quest
Yay! I just finished Peasant’s Quest! It’s an awesome parody of the original King’s Quest, and it’s ilk. (And no, I most certainly did not get lots of hints from the walkthrough. Hunh-uh! How dare you think that! 😉 )
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Bitwise Operators?
MoreSo, I’m working through Programming in Objective-C, and I come to the second half of Chapter 4: Data Types and Expressions, and I am totally stumped with the section on bitwise operators. I mean, I guess I understand what they’re doing, but the question I have at the moment is what use are they? […]
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Programming in Objective-C
MoreWell, after spending some more time looking for the rest of that “C is for Cocoa” series which doesn’t seem to yet exist, and on the basis of several reviews and comments in forums, I bought the book Programming in Objective-C by Stephen G. Kochan. Yes, I want to learn programming in Cocoa, but […]
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BYOB (Build Your Own Browser)
After a day of banging through the fundamentals of the C language, I decided to take a “break” and found a tutorial on building your own web browser in Cocoa with the help of Apple’s WebKit. Sure, it’s super-basic, and doesn’t do much more than forward/back/reload/print, but for about 15 minutes in Interface Builder and a couple lines of code, I’m pretty damn impressed. Of course, I have no clue how I did it, but it was a fun diversion nontheless.
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Macintosh Garden
Fuck, YEAH!!!
You remember how, a while back I was looking for really old Mac games, like Stunt Copter and Shufflepuck? Well, HERE. THEY. ARE.
Whooooooooo! Hello, babies! I missed you!
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Brain Hotel
The new game from Pinhead Games has been released!
Brain Hotel, written and designed by by AAl, and programmed by our good friend Mark, this is a great little game that provides a few hours of old-school LucasArts-style adventure game fun. Mac, PC or web-based (it’s Flash)— Go play it right now!
Mark Boszko
