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Panther Maintenance Tips
Yes, Mac OS X is incredibly stable, but here's a comprehensive list of tips to keep it that way for the duration of your OS install. What? You don't do any maintenance at all? Well, read on. That might change.
[MacDevCenter.com]
Keynote's XML Connections
For its Keynote application, Apple had created an XML syntax, APXL (short for Apple Presentation XML), and made its schema publicly available. That means you can build presentations outside of Keynote using data stored in apps like FileMaker Pro and 4D. David Miller explains, and shows you how to leverage this functionality.
[MacDevCenter.com]
Customize FileMaker Menus with Fast Tasks
As you know from designing your FileMaker templates, creating buttons to control new functions can get out of control fast. But there's an alternative called Fast Tasks that lets you streamline your designs by incorporating pop-up fields into your templates. Alan Graham shows you how.
[MacDevCenter.com]
A Look at the Eclipse IDE
Eclipse is an open source integrated development environment that has gained considerable popularity in 2003. Philippe Mougin provides an introduction plus some expert opinions from the last ECOOP conference.
[MacDevCenter.com]
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 Elements of a DAMP System -- DAMP is an acronym for Darwin, Apache, MySQL, and PHP/Perl/Python, the components necessary to create a powerful and scalable open source web-publishing platform on a Mac OS X system. Chapter 14 of Mac OS X in a Nutshell offers a step-by-step guide. Get a free trial to read this and four other O'Reilly books on Safari.
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Panther Internet Sharing
A quick look at sharing an Internet connection in Panther with IP over FireWire (which is now built into Mac OS X 10.3) and AirPort, including the pros and cons of each method.
[MacDevCenter.com]
Rendezvous Picture Transfer with Panther
You can show others on a Rendezvous network pictures directly from your camera using the new Image Capture app in Panther. But that's only part of the good news. Derrick Story shows you the ins and outs of this handy new Mac OS X 10.3 trick.
[MacDevCenter.com]
Scripting Mac OS X
As an administrator, when you think of automating tasks, you naturally think of scripting. James Reynolds shows you how to apply a variety of scripting languages to automate your workflow on Mac OS X.
[MacDevCenter.com]
Top Ten Digital Photography Tips
You have a digital camera and have recorded the typical shots of family and friends. Now what? Here are ten tips to make your next batch of digital images so impressive that people will ask: "Hey, what type of camera do you have?" Guess what? It's not the camera.
[Mac DevCenter]
Using WebObjects "Direct to Web" Technology
"Direct to Web" takes RAD and injects a shot of technology steroids to create RBRAD, or Rule-Based Rapid Application Development. Through the use of an EOModel file and a D2WModel file, you can create a full-blown web application in just a few simple steps. Josh Paul shows you how.
[MacDevCenter.com]
From Keynotes to Congregation: The Real Mac OS X Conference
The sessions and the keynotes are what get us to the conferences. But once everyone is there, chemistry among the attendees and speakers create a new event different than anything that could be planned -- especially at a Mac gathering. Here's what happened at the second Mac OS X Conference in Santa Clara, CA.
[O'Reilly Network]
Confessions of the World's Largest Switcher
After encountering roadblocks from Dell and IBM, Dr. Srinidhi Varadarajan went to Apple, and 24 hours later, had a commitment to deliver--within two months--the G5's he'd need to build a Supercomputer. At this week's O'Reilly Mac OS X Conference, Dr. Varadarajan reveals the details behind what it took to build Virginia Tech's G5 Supercomputer. Find out why he says you can expect to see a lot more G5 clusters in the future.
[MacDevCenter.com]
Ten Things I Dig About Xcode
Following in the footsteps of "Ten Things I Dig About Panther," James Duncan Davidson further explores one of the facets near and dear to Mac developers--their application development environment. Apple is introducing Xcode, along with Panther, and Davidson takes it for a spin and reports on his initial findings.
[MacDevCenter.com]
Creating Easy-to-Deploy Unix Applications for OS X
With OS X's Unix foundations came the promise of access to thousands of Unix applications for Mac users. But if those applications are hard to install, configure and use, everyone loses. Mark Roseman describes some of the most common obstacles to deploying Unix software on Mac OS X -- and how to overcome them.
[MacDevCenter.com]
Start Me Up: Writing and Understanding OS X StartupItems
StartupItems are easy to set up and extremely flexible in managing the startup process. Andrew Anders shows how StartupItems fit into the OS X startup process, what you need to do to create a StartupItem, and an example of a StartupItem that will run the Tomcat Java servlet engine.
[MacDevCenter.com]
Programming REALbasic, Part 1: Syntax of the Language
Wei-Meng Lee helps you leverage existing skills to get started in Mac development using REALbasic. In part 1, he introduces the REALbasic syntax for experienced programmers who are new to Mac development.
[MacDevCenter.com]
Apple Wireless Mouse and Keyboard Tips and Tricks
The new Apple Wireless Mouse and Keyboard and two great peripherals that can spice up your computing life; here's how to make the most of them.
[MacDevCenter.com]
Ten Things I Dig About Panther
Now that the release of Panther is officially announced, it's time to take a close look at its key features. O'Reilly author James Duncan Davidson shows you the aspects of Panther that he really digs.
[MacDevCenter.com]
Mac OS X Innovators Update: Round 3
The judging is over and the winners have been notified in the third and final round of the Mac OS X Innovators Contest. The formal announcement will be made at the O'Reilly Mac OS X Conference, on Wednesday, Oct. 29, 2003.
[MacDevCenter.com -- Mac Innovators Contest]
Fast Picture Previews
Many photographers like to peek at their digital photos before uploading them into their digital shoebox. If that appeals to you, here's an easy to use procedure to preview and sort in the Mac Finder -- even while the pictures are still on the memory card!
[MacDevCenter.com]
Programming With Cocoa
The Double Life of Variables
The most basic duality that exists with variables is how the programmer sees them in a totally different way than the computer. When you're typing away in Project Builder, your variables are normal words smashed together, like software titles from the 80s. But when the machine compiles your code, however, it does a little bit of translation. At run time , the computer sees nothing but 1s and 0s. Seth Roby introduces you to this double life of variables.
[MacDevCenter.com]
Ant and AppleScript
Tools from the AppleScript and Java communities can help each other create new things. For example, programmers can use Ant to help develop AppleScripts, and AppleScript can help produce Java applications. David Miller shows you how to make it all stick together.
[MacDevCenter.com]
What's on Your Dock?
A peek into the heads of writers, bloggers, designers, movers, and yes, even shakers, on a quest to find out something crucial about their personalities; their quirks and habits; to delve into their very souls. Yes, you guessed it. We are going to look at their Docks.
[MacDevCenter.com]
An Introduction to WebObjects
WebObjects is most often referred to as an application server; however, it's much more. WebObjects consists of a set of frameworks which allow you to write cross-platform, server-distributed applications, and a set of tools to help you write them. Josh Paul takes you inside WO and shows you how to get your feet wet with this introductory tutorial.
[O'Reilly Network]
From NEXTSTEP to Now: An Interview with LaunchBar's Norbert Heger
When LaunchBar was announced as a winner in the second Mac OS X Innovator's Contest, we received lots of positive comments from readers who were fans of this software. Like so many good ideas, the concept for this software has been around for a while. Its roots go back to 1995 and NEXTSTEP. Norbert Heger describes those early days and the evolution of this terrific Mac OS X application.
[MacDevCenter.com -- Mac Innovators Contest]
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ComputerWorld: Xserve Cluster Crunches Bio-data For Lab
The Mac Observer -- We hear a lot about Apple's latest desktops and notebooks these days -- even ganged PowerMac G5s have been making headlines -- but we seldom hear news of the Xserve and how businesses are using them. Here's a story from ComputerWorld Singapore about a laboratory that has recently installed Xserves.
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