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If you follow me on twitter then you know that recently I bought an Asus eeePc 1000H with Windows XP. I wanted to buy this machine because I don’t think Apple will be building a net-book in the next six to nine months in my opinion.
I also wanted to have a small from factor notebook to play with and to use as an experimental platform to try different distributions like Windows, Linux and even the OSX86 platform that I know existed. I also did not want to spend much more than $500 U.S.
So I got the computer and really like it a lot. As I started to read more about installing operating systems on this computer, a listener and tweeter friend; @eclipseempire, gave me advice that he had one of these and had put OSX86 on it without a problem. He then got together with me and did all the heavy lifting of making this a reality for me. The credit goes to him as he had done all the research on how to do this.
Here is a post on his website eclipseempire.com that describes links to how to go about doing this in detail.
Thanks to Greg (eclipseempire,) for helping me, and providing this great article.
by: George Starcher, Associate Editor
A few weeks back I hit the Big Nerd Ranch for Cocoa Objective C bootcamp. It has been fun and interesting dusting off some programming skills. I mainly want to work on some projects for the Mac. However, the idea of playing around with the iPhone/iPod touch for some development. I was sent a review copy of Erica Sadun’s The iPhone Developer’s Cookbook.
The book provides a very well rounded tour of code samples, suggestions and guidance on building your applications. You do need some foundation in Objective C and xcode to get the most from the book. Like most cookbooks it has plenty of code recipes for all sorts of different parts you need to make good applications. However if you are really just getting started completely from scratch I recommend going through Aaron Hillegass’ Cocoa Programming for Mac OSX first. Get yourself familiar with xcode and cocoa. Then you can build from there using Erica’s book.
Overall I think the book will be a great reference. Just keep in mind it was written as best it could be to be current yet timeless. There is one reference to the push services that Apple has yet to release. Erica mentions she did not religiously address memory management retain and releases in the code. This was done to ensure the code would work for learning purposes well into future versions of xcode. So be sure to pay attention to what you need to do if you follow the examples to tighten up your memory management.
She takes you through getting setup with your certificate into xcode so you can test your code on an actual device. Then there are tons of code sample on different interface styles. Even a dash of references on neat but technically unsupported tricks. Erica makes clear when she shows those so you can use them at your own risk. You still will need to reference Apple’s user interface guidelines if you want your application to measure up. Still you can get a lot of great mechanics for your applications from the book.
All in all I rate this a great companion reference with my book on Cocoa programming. Just give yourself time to absorb it all and practice with all the examples you are given. Erica even keeps pretty up to date code samples from the book on her web site. At the time I write this the most recent file updates show as October 13 which is pretty recent.
Good reading and coding!
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Just found out yesterday that the Typical Mac User Podcast has been nominated for the “Technology” category in the 2008 Podcast Awards.
I want to thank everyone who nominated the show for the award and I’m glad I made it through the first cut in the nomination process. I also want to congratulate everyone else that has been nominated in the Technology category. I’m honored to even be mentioned among that group of peers.
This awards requires that you go vote (when voting opens) everyday over at 2008 Podcast Awards so that I have a chance to win. Why not, when I when I ‘ll have some very specific people that I will thank for making this possible and who I doubt without this could have happened.
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