Posted in Cocoa on August 31, 2008 | 3 Comments »
« Become an Xcoder », the book I wrote with Bert Altenburg and Alex Clarke, is now available in German.
The German translation was made by Berthold Leimbach and includes updates for the latest version of Xcode in Leopard.
This tutorial is for non-programmers, and is aimed at levelling the Cocoa learning curve as much as possible. [...]
Posted in Cocoa, Smalltalk on August 30, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
What a blast to meet and discuss with so many people whose works I'm fan of! The five days conference put together over 170 participants, with a high concentration of languages designers and implementors.
A few notes of interest:
Newspeak, a new programming language designed by Gilad Bracha, is extremely promising. I haven’t seen such an important [...]
Posted in Cocoa, F-Script, Smalltalk on August 20, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
It would be nice too have, don’t you think? Well, Doug Ransom just wrote to me about a bounty he is setting up for developing such an action. You can help growing the bounty or, if you are a bounty hunter, develop the Automator action.
Interested? Go to the bounty page to participate.
Posted in Cocoa, F-Script, Smalltalk on August 10, 2008 | 8 Comments »
Updated on January 7, 2009 to reflect changes in F-Script 2.0 alpha 7.
The following program illustrates subclassing Cocoa classes with F-Script 2.0. It displays a circle that can generate psychedelic effects by displaying flashes of colors. Here is a screenshot of the application:
The main component of the program is PsychedelicCircleView a subclass of NSView. This [...]
Posted in Cocoa, F-Script, Smalltalk on August 7, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
When we define a method with F-Script (as shown here and here), it gets automatically registered in the Objective-C runtime. Indeed, from the point of view of the runtime, the new method is just like any other Objective-C method. Among other things, this means that it can be invoked from Objective-C code.
This also manifests in [...]
