http://theocacao.com/ TheobromaCacao: 0x348b60 http://theocacao.com/images/favicon.png http://theocacao.com/ en-us scott@treehouseideas.com Copyright 2004 2008-05-14T01:36:30-07:00 hourly 1 2000-01-01T12:00+00:00 http://theocacao.com/document.page/572 572@http://theobroma.treehouseideas.com/ CocoaHeads Silicon Valley meeting this Thursday night, I'm going to present Best of Both Worlds. This talk is a combination of an introduction to Cocoa, as well as a series of advanced tips and tricks that even relatively experienced Mac programmers may not know about...]]> scott General 2008-05-14T01:33:28-07:00 http://theocacao.com/document.page/571 571@http://theobroma.treehouseideas.com/ Cocoa Programming for Mac OS X is now shipping. I talked about it in some detail previously, but the summary is that this is one book I can easily recommend to new Mac programmers...]]> scott General 2008-05-14T00:52:06-07:00 http://theocacao.com/document.page/570 570@http://theobroma.treehouseideas.com/ UI Design Essentials talk at last month's CocoaHeads Silicon Valley, is now available, along with the Debugging with Xcode talk by Joar Wingfors...]]> scott General 2008-05-11T00:14:19-07:00 http://theocacao.com/document.page/569 569@http://theobroma.treehouseideas.com/ next Thursday, May 15. The preliminary topic is "Intro to Cocoa and Xcode" — particularly for the folks we've recently picked up for iPhone. We'd like your feedback on this, though...]]> scott General 2008-05-06T23:51:17-07:00 http://theocacao.com/document.page/568 568@http://theobroma.treehouseideas.com/ Ratchet and Clank Future, and it actually goes beyond what I expected...]]> scott General 2008-05-05T23:40:38-07:00 http://theocacao.com/document.page/567 567@http://theobroma.treehouseideas.com/ Brent Simmons mentioned Theocacao a few months back, noting the "page-in-a-page" technique used in some site designs. I don't know if there's an official term for this style, but I call it visible borders...]]> scott General 2008-05-04T15:26:05-07:00 http://theocacao.com/document.page/566 566@http://theobroma.treehouseideas.com/ CocoaHeads Silicon Valley, but we've never had an entire night on user interface design. On Thursday night, we're setting that right. I'm going to present UI Design Essentials on April 17 at 7:30pm at the Apple De Anza 3 auditorium...]]> scott General 2008-04-15T00:38:09-07:00 http://theocacao.com/document.page/565 565@http://theobroma.treehouseideas.com/ Cocoa Dev Central. This one is called simply, Learn Objective-C. This tutorial is aimed at programmers who already have some basic experience with C and are looking to jump right into Objective-C...]]> scott General 2008-04-14T01:03:52-07:00 http://theocacao.com/document.page/564 564@http://theobroma.treehouseideas.com/ CocoaHeads Silicon Valley will be Thurs, April 17. This is a week later than the typical schedule. In the meantime, NSCoder Night Silicon Valley is every Tuesday 7pm-9pm in Campbell at Orchard Valley Coffee. You can also follow @nscodernight on Twitter for reminders...]]> scott General 2008-04-03T22:59:46-07:00 http://theocacao.com/document.page/563 563@http://theobroma.treehouseideas.com/ Cocoa Blogs over to the new server. The first step is just that the RSS feed will be updated, then I'll take a look at the web site itself. Also, it's now free to everyone — even those who have not made a donation...]]> scott General 2008-03-29T19:33:13-07:00 http://theocacao.com/document.page/562 562@http://theobroma.treehouseideas.com/ language design is just as important as layout and screenshots. It's in your best interest to make specific statements about what your software does, and to not talk down to the reader...]]> scott General 2008-03-20T16:42:19-07:00 http://theocacao.com/document.page/561 561@http://theobroma.treehouseideas.com/ Instruments at CocoaHeads Silicon Valley this Thursday, March 20 in Garage 1 at Apple. Instruments is Apple's brand-new performance measuring tool for Leopard...]]> scott General 2008-03-17T01:21:52-07:00 http://theocacao.com/document.page/560 560@http://theobroma.treehouseideas.com/ CocoaHeads Silicon Valley. Typically, the meeting would be this Thursday, but it's more likely to be March 20. I'll post something when the date is confirmed. In the meantime, NSCoder Night is tonight at 7pm in Campbell...]]> scott General 2008-03-11T00:00:22-07:00 http://theocacao.com/document.page/559 559@http://theobroma.treehouseideas.com/ scott General 2008-03-10T21:12:43-07:00 http://theocacao.com/document.page/558 558@http://theobroma.treehouseideas.com/ scott General 2008-03-09T16:32:43-07:00 http://theocacao.com/document.page/557 557@http://theobroma.treehouseideas.com/ Josh Anon actually made this happen, walking us around the main building, showing us storyboards, concept art, and full-size recreations of Pixar characters...]]> scott General 2008-02-26T16:04:29-08:00 http://theocacao.com/document.page/556 556@http://theobroma.treehouseideas.com/ NanoLife that other developers have put together based on the original project. Each one does something a bit different...]]> scott General 2008-02-24T18:20:03-08:00 http://theocacao.com/document.page/555 555@http://theobroma.treehouseideas.com/ or maybe fireflies?)...]]> scott General 2008-02-21T19:45:06-08:00 http://theocacao.com/document.page/554 554@http://theobroma.treehouseideas.com/ Cocoa Programming for Mac OS X. Without doing an exhaustive review, I can tell you that this book continues the tradition of being the best introductory Cocoa book available...]]> scott General 2008-02-16T20:15:36-08:00 http://theocacao.com/document.page/553 553@http://theobroma.treehouseideas.com/ scott General 2008-02-15T18:42:16-08:00