Learn Objective-C on the Mac - Mark Dalrymple [2]
Jack’s picked the current best-of-breed techniques for making applications in Mac OS X 10.5 and 10.6 (and beyond). There’s enough breadth to know what you need to know, enough depth to get you up and running, and enough knowledge to dig deeper on your own.
I hope you enjoy reading this book. I truly enjoyed reviewing it.
Cheers,
++md
P.S. C|N>K means “coffee piped through nose into keyboard”
About the Authors
Jack Nutting has been using Cocoa since the olden days, long before it was even called Cocoa. He’s used Cocoa and its predecessors to develop software for a wide range of industries and applications including gaming, graphic design, online digital distribution, telecommunications, finance, publishing, and travel. When he’s not working on Mac or iPhone projects, or developing web applications with Ruby on Rails, he’s usually spending time with his family. Jack is a passionate proponent of Objective-C and the Cocoa frameworks. At the drop of a hat, he will speak at length on the virtues of dynamic dispatch and runtime class manipulations to anyone who’ll listen (and even to some who won’t). He blogs from time to time at http://www.nuthole.com.
Jeff LaMarche is a long-time Mac developer, and Apple iPhone Developer. With over 20 years of programming experience, he’s written on Cocoa and Objective-C for MacTech Magazine, as well as articles for Apple’s Developer Technical Services website. He has experience working in Enterprise software, both as a developer for PeopleSoft starting in the late 1990s, and then later as an independent consultant.
Dave Mark is a long-time Mac developer and author and has written a number of books on Macintosh development, including Learn C on the Macintosh, The Macintosh Programming Primer series, and Ultimate Mac Programming. His blog can be found at http://www.davemark.com.
About the Technical Reviewer
Mark Dalrymple is a long-time Mac and Unix programmer, working on cross-platform toolkits, Internet publishing tools, high-performance web servers, and end-user desktop applications. He is also the principal author of Advanced Mac OS X Programming (Big Nerd Ranch, 2005) and Learn Objective-C on the Mac (Apress, 2009). In his spare time, Mark plays trombone and bassoon, and makes balloon animals.
Acknowledgments
This book would never have been possible without contributions from many people. Clay Andres’ expert guidance and helpful insights into the publishing process have helped keep me on track numerous times. Dave Mark’s feedback and concrete writing tips have been absolutely essential; believe me, you don’t want to see the first draft of the first chapter I wrote, before Dave started setting me straight. Jeff LaMarche’s work on the first chapters of the book, as well as his initial outline for the rest of the book, provided a solid foundation for me to build upon. Mark Dalrymple has done a great job of examining the book’s technical details with a fine-toothed comb, keeping me honest and making me look good at the same time. Brian MacDonald’s vantage point as someone with great technical knowledge, but not detailed experience with Cocoa, helped uncover bits and pieces of the book that needed to be expanded or compacted. Throughout the last several months of the writing, Mary Tobin has been consistently patient and helpful with this newbie author, keeping track of the statuses of each chapter and keeping the process working smoothly. And copy-editor Tracy Brown Collins has responded to a deluge of way-past-deadline chapters with remarkable efficiency and a keen eye for detail. Beyond that, there are any number of people involved in the layout and other aspects of the production who are, to me, completely unknown and nameless, despite their crucial contributions. Thank you, whoever you are!
Apart from the people associated with Apress, a number of friends have helped in a variety of ways, at various stages during the creation of this book, either volunteering their time freely or at least answering my pleas for advice. Saurabh Sharan