If you want to have add/remove/resize controls at the bottom of a source list view (like the ones in Mail and so many other nice-looking applications), Neil Allain has at least one method of getting them…

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In this episode of the Mac Software Business Podcast Scotty discusses exhibiting at Mac World and 2 man companies with John Chaffee of Busy Mac.

In this post Matt Long of Cocoa if My Girlfriend continues to address topics of relevance to Macintosh programmers who are, like him, moving from being hackers to becoming independent software vendors (micro ISV). In this article he addresses adding copyright and version information to your about dialog and shows you how you can update these dynamically. He also covers a few tips on formatting the text in your about dialog. There is more than one way to achieve these things, but his hope is to help others out there who need to accomplish these things and have no prior experience doing them on the Mac.

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Lack of feedback is one of the most difficult things about caring for a small child. You know they are unhappy because they are crying. But you don’t know if that unhappiness is due to: hunger, thirst, too hot, too cold, ear ache, stomach ache, wind, tiredness, boredom, teething or something else. They can’t tell you, so you can only guess. Creating software without feedback is tough for the same reasons. You know how well or badly you are doing by the number of sales, but without detailed feedback from your customers and prospective customers, it is difficult to know how you could do better.  Andy Brice examines the problem.

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Sometimes, you need to draw text with more control than an NSTextField or NSTextView will let you do, and sometimes you need better performance than the NSStringDrawing category will provide. And maybe you need to draw text into a CGContext or even inside a Carbon application.  Uli Kusterer explains all.

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NSDecimalNumber is Objective-C’s solution to numbers that need to be very precise. Marcus Zarra of Cocoa is my Girlfriend takes a look.

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Matt Long of Cocoa is My Girlfriend discusses application naming.

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In his latest foray into Core Animation, Drew McCormack examines how to build up hierarchies of layers.

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Developers often ask in forums how they can get their software into retail. Andy Brice discusses.

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For the TextMate users out there who write C and C++, Josh Carter demonstrates a handy command for beautifying a bunch of #define lines.

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Apple have released a new build (9M2165) of the iPhone SDK. This is beta 4.

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Amit Singh of the Google Mac Team works more of his low level magic

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Brent Simmons shares a couple of secrets on designing Mac Apps.

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Matt Long from Cocoa is my Girlfriend says "I am faced with the stark reality that the work of building the app is a small fraction of the entire work load. Once the code is finished, the list of what is left to do before being able to release the application seems to be growing rather than shrinking. In this series of posts, I intend to examine these hurdles and provide information not only about my experiences, but how I’ve overcome these hurdles and turned them into success."

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Developing software in a solo environment has its pros and cons. On the upside you have complete reign over the code base (no problems with ownership here), freedom to follow specific designs and an ability to express your creativity. On the other hand, the very nature of the activity can be your down fall; tunnel vision and shortsightedness can eclipse all of your efforts.

There is a way out of this quandary and its called peer review. The mere mention of “peer review” can strike fear and foreboding into the hearts of developers. But, like it or not, this egoless programming practice has the power to deliver. 

Outside input can lead to an increase in production quality and ultimately product appeal. Shane Crawford shows a few ways to get outside input and ideas if you’re flying solo

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In the last post on NSViewController, Cathy Shive described the need for a view controller class that is part of a sound controller architecture, especially when developing an application with a single window interface. In this post, Jonathan Dann and Cathy will share the design we came up with for integrating NSViewController into the existing Cocoa MVC application architecture using NSWindowController as the glue.

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Key Value Observing/Key Value Coding (KVO/KVC) is probably one of the most powerful and most under-utilized features of Objective-C. The guys at Cocoa is my Girlfriend give us a couple of examples of how to get the most out of it

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