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Theobroma Cacao
Personal blog · theocacao.comprogrammingdesign
Theobroma Cacao is a personal blog at theocacao.com about programming and design. Since 2007, 12 different Hacker News readers have linked it 12 times. The last post was in 2009, but the archive is still widely read.
Too few sampled comments (5) to say how often HN recommends it.?
Why HN links it
HN readers link this Cocoa and Objective-C resource for Mac and iOS developers. One commenter calls it a favourite Cocoa website, and another recommends its overview of Objective-C 2.0 features.
Summarised by Claude from a sample of 5 HN comments that link here. Each comment is marked recommending, critical or neutral (citing without judging); how this works.
Most-linked posts?
- /2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2010-06-26
What Hacker News says?
Apple started selling 64 bit machines in 2005 and supported it in the operating system with Leopard: http://theocacao.com/document.page/343 There weren’t many 32 bit only Intel based Macs. This complaint says far more about the developer than Apple.
Comment linking /document.page/343
on “Thoughts on Cocoa”Submitted Objective-C, Ruby and Python for Cocoa as a story · 29 points
HN discussionJust in time for WWDC too. Epic. And I'm going to take a second to hijack this thread for a tangentially related announcement: 280 North is co-hosting a small event with Sofa ( http://madebysofa.com/ - they're responsible for Cappuccino's new theme, "Aristo") on Monday for Cappuccino developers and anyone else who wants to join us. http://cpcoder.eventbrite.com/ 7-9PM, Martini Room at Jillian's in Metreon across the…
Comment linking /document.page/606
on “Apple Gets Pwned, SF Store Is Now Advertising DVD Jon’s doubleTwist”Submitted Measuring the Design Process as a story · 27 points
HN discussionThe bible is certainly Aaron Hillegass' Cocoa Programming for Mac OS X - http://www.bignerdranch.com/book/cocoa®_programming_for_mac®... The Apple documentation is outstanding. http://developer.apple.com/resources/ Check out ObjC and iOS podcasts. My favorite Cocoa website it http://theocacao.com/ Delicious might also help you: http://delicious.com/tag/cocoa
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on “OS X/iOS Programming”Submitted First look at Cappuccino and Objective-J as a story · 10 points
HN discussionNo, there isn't a huge difference between Obj-C 1.x and 2.0. 2.0 brings you object properties (just syntactic sugar), object iteration (for x in ...), and garbage collection (but not on the iPhone). http://theocacao.com/document.page/510 is a good overview of the new features.
Comment linking /document.page/510
on “Where to start - programming for mobile phones”Submitted Satisfying UI Design is Often Illogical as a story · 4 points
HN discussionThis is a Google Custom Search Engine that I've set up. I'm focusing on sites that would be useful for new iOS developers, specifically sites with good tutorials, examples, or articles. This is my site list so far: http://developer.apple.com/library/ios/ http://cocoadevcentral.com/ http://www.iphonesdkarticles.com/ http://iphonedevelopertips.com/ http://mobileorchard.com/ http://maniacdev.com/ http://mauvilasoftware…
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on “Ask HN: Need iOS development links for Google Custom Search engine”Submitted Theocacao: Core Animation Isn't Just for Animation as a story · 3 points
HN discussionSubmitted Thinking Like a Programmer as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted My Data Says You Like Beautiful Things as a story · 1 points
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