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MGTwitterEngine and MGViewAnimation updated

A couple of updates to some of my source code; details below. MGViewAnimation updated code is available via the source code page as usual and the latest MGTwitterEngine code is in the public Subversion repository at http://svn.cocoasourcecode.com/.
(Please do get my code from the repository if it’s available there, because I don’t guarantee to update the [...]


FolderSweep source code

Some new source code for you, this time from my esteemed colleague Rainer “RBSplitView” Brockerhoff, in collusion with myself. The code is called FolderSweep, and in a nutshell it shows you how to recursively traverse a folder-hierarchy really quickly (faster than using NSFileManager) and in a controlled way, optionally also memory-mapping the contents of files [...]


iPhone Development

I’m seriously excited about the iPhone SDK. You should be too. Whether or not you actually own an iPhone or an iPod Touch, the SDK is potentially huge for OS X developers, and for the platform as a whole.


Icon Resource - Learn to create your own OS X icons

Just a heads-up to all those Mac developers looking to learn a bit about icon design (that’s all of us, right?) - Sebastiaan de With of Cocoia fame has today launched his new site at http://www.iconresource.net/.
It’s a site where for a very modest fee you can get access to video tutorials (and all accompanying materials [...]


Using MAAttachedWindow with an NSStatusItem

I get asked how to do this disproportionately often, so I put together a sample project showing how you can have an NSStatusItem in the menubar which spawns an MAAttachedWindow instead of a menu (really, it’s ridiculously simple - no tricks involved). It looks like this:

Could be cool for status displays, alerts, or just having [...]


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