Category Archives: TheCodeBook – Fundamentals

A walkthrough on how Wandering Polygon works across multiple monitors.

after-action report for the Sound Picker sample code

I was working on a project and needed to allow the user to pick a sound to play when an event occurs. Even though OS X has great sound support it lacks a common GUI element for allowing users to pick a sound to play. Each program implements this in a different way, and most [...]

A common tripup for programmers moving from other languages to Objective-C is dealing with the difference between equality and identity. This can be especially problematic because the rules for identity and equality are different depending on whether you are dealing with primitives or objects, and because FoundationKit can pull some tricks behind the scenes that [...]