So, 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? I…
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Programming in Objective-C
Well, 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 as…
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…
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!
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!
Programming with Cocoa
I’ve been meaning to do this for a long time, bought several books, flipped through them, and thought to myself, by golly — one day, I’ll learn to program this Mac, but — of course — I never followed through. I thought I wanted to program graphics plugins or other funny little apps, like an…
Audioscrobbler
I added a “Music Habits” link to the navigation links in the bar to your right. This link goes to my page on Audioscrobbler. Audioscrobbler, for those who don’t know, is a wicked keen site that has plugins you can download for your music player of choice (Mac, PC, Linux, whatever) and it tracks what…