Mac Software Business Podcast Episode 10: Boxed Product and Marketing
Thu, Nov 20 2008 07:56
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Scotty chats with Dan Counsell and Nik Fletcher of Realmac software on the process of producing a boxed product and their take on marketing.
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MDN Book Review: Pragmatic Version Control Using Git By Travis Swicegood
Pragmatic Version Control Using Git By Travis Swicegood
Publisher: The Pragmatic Programmers
The book is currently in Beta so only available electronically.
To buy the PDF now with the paper edition shipped when its complete is $43.75 or you can purchase just the PDF for $22
Review By Diego Zamboni
Summary
Pragmatic Version Control Using Git provides a good overview and introduction to using Git for version control. The book covers all the basic concepts of distributed version control systems (DVCS), and provides a hands-on guide to all the basic Git features, and some advanced ones. The book is well written, in general the examples are useful and serve to clearly illustrate the points, and the book provides enough information to get started and exploring on your own. It does not contain a lot of advanced usage of Git, nor is it a Git reference tome, but after reading it, you will have enough knowledge to dig through the ample git documentation and discover all the functionality that is not described in the book.
If you are coming from Subversion or CVS, the book will allow you to quickly become productive with Git. There is a short guide in the Preface that points to the parts that you may want to skim and where you need to start paying more attention.
Overall, a highly recommended read if you want to get introduced to the world of distributed version control systems and to Git. If you are expecting a full reference to Git and its advanced techniques, this book may not be for you.
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Publisher: The Pragmatic Programmers
The book is currently in Beta so only available electronically.
To buy the PDF now with the paper edition shipped when its complete is $43.75 or you can purchase just the PDF for $22
Review By Diego Zamboni
Summary
Pragmatic Version Control Using Git provides a good overview and introduction to using Git for version control. The book covers all the basic concepts of distributed version control systems (DVCS), and provides a hands-on guide to all the basic Git features, and some advanced ones. The book is well written, in general the examples are useful and serve to clearly illustrate the points, and the book provides enough information to get started and exploring on your own. It does not contain a lot of advanced usage of Git, nor is it a Git reference tome, but after reading it, you will have enough knowledge to dig through the ample git documentation and discover all the functionality that is not described in the book.
If you are coming from Subversion or CVS, the book will allow you to quickly become productive with Git. There is a short guide in the Preface that points to the parts that you may want to skim and where you need to start paying more attention.
Overall, a highly recommended read if you want to get introduced to the world of distributed version control systems and to Git. If you are expecting a full reference to Git and its advanced techniques, this book may not be for you.
Read Full Review
Updated Soucre Code page of MDN Website
I have added more projects to the source code page on the MDN site.
http://www.mac-developer-network.com/code/
http://www.mac-developer-network.com/code/
New Book Review on MDN Website : Release It
Release It!: Design and Deploy Production-Ready Software
by Michael T. Nygard
Publisher: The Pragmatic Programmers
RRP: $34.95 (Available in PDF for $22)
Review By Niklas Saers
Summary
Release It is a great book if your day job, like mine, is to create enterprise systems that integrate lots of sub-systems. The author clearly states "I’ve targeted this book at architects, designers, and developers of enterprise-class software systems—this includes websites, web services, and EAI projects, among others." For an Indie Mac developer or an up-and-coming iPhone developer, unless what you're making is enterprise-class software that needs to integrate with lots of sub-system, you probably want to give this book a miss.
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by Michael T. Nygard
Publisher: The Pragmatic Programmers
RRP: $34.95 (Available in PDF for $22)
Review By Niklas Saers
Summary
Release It is a great book if your day job, like mine, is to create enterprise systems that integrate lots of sub-systems. The author clearly states "I’ve targeted this book at architects, designers, and developers of enterprise-class software systems—this includes websites, web services, and EAI projects, among others." For an Indie Mac developer or an up-and-coming iPhone developer, unless what you're making is enterprise-class software that needs to integrate with lots of sub-system, you probably want to give this book a miss.
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Late Night Cocoa (034): F-Script with Philippe Mougin
Mon, Oct 20 2008 05:50
| Podcast, Late Night Cocoa
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Show Notes for Mac Developer Roundtable on Open Source Now Released
Wed, Oct 15 2008 02:02
| Podcast, Site Info, Mac Developer Roundtable
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Sorry About The Tax
Because I am organising Mac Dev 2009 I am finding myself incurring large amounts of VAT on expenses for the conference. The only way I can recover this tax is to register for VAT myself which means unfortunately I now have to charge people in the European Union VAT on membership and video sales.
If there was any other way around this I would have done it but its only by doing this I can make a European Mac Developers Conference a reality.
If there was any other way around this I would have done it but its only by doing this I can make a European Mac Developers Conference a reality.
MDN Book Review: Pragmatic Version Control: Using Subversion By Mike Mason
We have today added a book review section to the Mac Developer Network Website.
The first review is by Andrew Nixon and is of Pragmatic Version Control: Using Subversion By Mike Mason from The Pragmatic Programmers
The first review is by Andrew Nixon and is of Pragmatic Version Control: Using Subversion By Mike Mason from The Pragmatic Programmers
Molecules source code now available
Mon, Oct 6 2008 03:04
| Dev News, Code, Other Resources
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Brad Larson has released the source code to his iPhone application, Molecules.
There is a details post about it here
The source code tarball is available on that page, as well as on my main page for the application
Brad figured that this might be of interest to MacDevNet members, as this application uses OpenGL ES, SQLite, multithreaded elements, table views, and network downloads via NSURLConnection. The code is available under the BSD license, so other developers can copy and paste portions of it into their closed-source applications without worry. The source is not terribly well documented yet (the NDA lift came as a bit of a surprise), but hopefully my post about it makes clear some of its core structure.
Sorry folks I have been sitting on this one for a few days.
There is a details post about it here
The source code tarball is available on that page, as well as on my main page for the application
Brad figured that this might be of interest to MacDevNet members, as this application uses OpenGL ES, SQLite, multithreaded elements, table views, and network downloads via NSURLConnection. The code is available under the BSD license, so other developers can copy and paste portions of it into their closed-source applications without worry. The source is not terribly well documented yet (the NDA lift came as a bit of a surprise), but hopefully my post about it makes clear some of its core structure.
Sorry folks I have been sitting on this one for a few days.
Show Notes Available for LNC iPhone SDK
Sat, Oct 4 2008 08:38
| Podcast, Late Night Cocoa
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