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Apr
8
Learning Cocoa
So… Are you an experienced programmer and is moving to Cocoa? For either MacOS X or iPhone OS, the Cocoa Programming: A Quick-Start Guide for Developers book from the Pragmatic Bookshelf is a great addition to your library. It’s a great deal, wich i’ve just finished reading. The eBook costs $22.00 (US Dollars).
It assumes that you already know how to code, and is moving to a new platform (in this case Cocoa). It helped me a lot (and it still does) when I came from my C/C++ background to the MacOS Cocoa + ObjectiveC. It’s a hands-on approach that leaves no gaps in the explanations. I’ve found myself many times coming from the Apple’s official tutorials to the eBook to get some clarification on some topics. It’s great both for learning and for reference.
If you’re new to programming and is starting in a MacOS platform, you can check out the Beginning Mac Programming: Develop with Objective-C and Cocoa. I haven’t read this one, but it seems to make the same approach from the first one, except it does not assume any programming background.
In the meantime, my wishlist is available with some other options of books (and, if you want to send me a gift, those are great ones).
Mar
18
Convert EUC-JP to UTF-8 in Python
So… I study Japanese. I was searching for a way to convert some EUC-JP encoded files to the UTF-8 (now standard in most OSes), and I found myself stuck with no tools to do so.
Searching the web, I’ve found many language functions to convert lines, strings or chunk of bytes from one encoding to the other, but I have in my hand a plain-text file (a rather large one).
Mar
2
Currency Converter
Check out the online currency converter for MacOS X. It was developed on Snow Leopard and targeted to Snow Leopard users.
You can choose to work online or offline. When online, the program fetches the conversion rate from the internet and used for your conversions.
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Feb
22
Online Currency Converter for MacOS
An simple online currency converter application made for MacOS 10. This simple application lets you choose an target and destination currency from a predefined list and it convert the currencies for you.
It fetches online the current convertion rate, displays it to you and the target value.
It is very simple and plain. No in-depth work. Just saves you the time to go online, search the site and do the math by yourself.
I’ll post a download link later this week.
Tagged development, macos, online
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