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Cocoa Style

Wednesday, July 13th, 2005

Wil Shipley has posted his first code review of a reader’s submitted Objective-C code sample. He has some very interesting comments on code style and best practices. Some of his comments spark a heated and informative discussion on valid class initialization and use of autorelease on accessor methods. Being new to both [...]

Installing Darwin Ports

Saturday, July 2nd, 2005

DarwinPorts provides an easy and very powerful toolset for installing cross-platform UNIX software through an easy to use interface via the terminal (command line).
Where to get it: http://darwinports.org/getdp/
Installation:

Uncompress the installation package using Stuffit Expander
Double-Click on the DarwinPorts.mpkg icon inside the DarwinPorts disk image.
Open the Terminal.app
You’ll need to add the following to your $PATH [...]