Re: WWDC

2012-04-25 Thread Rob Ross
I filed a bug report under other asking them to increase the numbers of attendees at future WWDC. They should be able to do it, if they want to. Java One regularly had 15,000 in its heyday, at the exact same Moscone Center venue. On Wednesday, April 25, 2012, Nathan Sims

[Meet] LA Cocoa Heads starts iOS book study March 10th

2011-02-23 Thread Rob Ross
Greetings LA Cocoa Heads! Thanks to everyone who attended the last meeting. For those of you that missed it, we've decided to start a group study of this book: Beginning iPhone4 Development book (Dave Mark, Jeff LaMarche, Jack Nutting) You can pick up a copy at the usual book stores, online or

Re: starting with Cocoa!

2011-01-22 Thread Rob Ross
On Jan 22, 2011, at 9:47 AM, Uli Kusterer wrote: On 21.01.11 07:55, Janos Syd Nepthali Pao wrote: I'm glad to find this mailing list. I'm starting with Cocoa (side by side with iOS development), i wanted to learn software development (this totally rocks!). I'd like to ask for your hints,

Re: Help with Basics

2010-11-23 Thread Rob Ross
It's not nonsense, although Jain's description is a little too loose. Rephrased : If you obtain an object using a method containing the words alloc, copy, or new, *you* are responsible for releasing the object, otherwise you are not responsible and the object will be auto-released. That's a

[MEET]: Los Angeles CocoaHeads tonight, 7:30pm

2010-11-11 Thread Rob Ross
Greetings LA CocoaHeads. Tonight we have our monthly meeting. We don't have a formal presentation planned, but we'll have an informal discussion of recent Apple announcements such as the new Mac App store, upcoming features in 10.7 Lion, and general QA about Mac and iDevice development. (I

Re: Declaring a property named private and ObjC++

2010-09-28 Thread Rob Ross
On Sep 28, 2010, at 4:19 PM, Nick Zitzmann wrote: @property(assign,getter=isPrivate) BOOL private; What about trying @property(assign) BOOL isPrivate; ? Rob ___ Cocoa-dev mailing list (Cocoa-dev@lists.apple.com) Please do not post admin requests

Re: Avoid drawing in half pixel

2010-05-05 Thread Rob Ross
Try turning off anti-aliasing. Also see : http://developer.apple.com/mac/library/documentation/Cocoa/Conceptual/CocoaDrawingGuide/Transforms/Transforms.html#//apple_ref/doc/uid/TP40003290-CH204-BCICIJAJ Rob On May 5, 2010, at 8:18 AM, Gustavo Pizano wrote: Hello all. I have a split view

Re: Questions about 2D drawing in Cocoa

2010-04-19 Thread Rob Ross
Books: This is pretty definitive: http://www.amazon.com/Programming-Quartz-Graphics-Kaufmann-Computer/dp/0123694736/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8s=booksqid=1231668829sr=1-1 This is much shorter, but a good quick start:

Re: Debugger Variable window

2010-04-16 Thread Rob Ross
On Apr 16, 2010, at 6:06 PM, Tony Romano wrote: MyObjectA { NSURL url; } Is this just a typo? Shouldn't you be writing: MyObjectA { NSURL *url; } ? Rob ___ Cocoa-dev mailing list (Cocoa-dev@lists.apple.com) Please do not post

[MEET] Reminder : LA CocoaHeads This Thursday 11/12 at 7:30pm

2009-11-11 Thread Rob Ross
Greetings LA CocoaHeads. This Thursday we have quite a treat. Elliot Lee will be discussing his iPhone app Whiteboard: Collaborative Drawing. You can check out the app in the App Store; the exact names are Whiteboard Lite: Collaborative Drawing (free) Whiteboard Pro: Collaborative Drawing

[MEET] Los Angeles CocoaHeads Thursday Nov. 12th 7:30pm

2009-11-05 Thread Rob Ross
Greetings LA CocoaHeads. Next Thursday we have quite a treat. Elliot Lee will be discussing his iPhone app Whiteboard: Collaborative Drawing. You can check out the app in the App Store; the exact names are Whiteboard Lite: Collaborative Drawing (free) Whiteboard Pro: Collaborative Drawing

[MEET] Reminder : LA CocoaHeads TONIGHT 7:30pm

2009-10-08 Thread Rob Ross
Greetings LA CocoaHeads. Tonight, David Hodge will be discussing his experiences with making public transit applications for the iPhone. Starting with iBART and iBART Live in the Bay Area, now CDTA iRide that he made on contract for New York state, and a few other related applications. He'll

[MEET] : Los Angeles CocoaHeads this Thursday 10/8 7:30pm

2009-10-05 Thread Rob Ross
Greetings LA CocoaHeads. This Thursday, David Hodge will be discussing his experiences with making public transit applications for the iPhone. Starting with iBART and iBART Live in the Bay Area, now CDTA iRide that he made on contract for New York state, and a few other related

[MEET] Reminder : LA CocoaHeads TONIGHT 9/10/09 at 7:30pm

2009-09-10 Thread Rob Ross
Greetings LA CocoaHeads. Tonight, Ron will be demoing his iPhone app “The DVD Bit Budget Assistant”, and showing some of the facets that went into creating it. More info on the app itself at http://www.editgroove.com/ We meet at the offices of E! Entertainment at 7:30pm. Our meeting location

[MEET]: LA CocoaHeads tomorrow night, 9/10 7:30pm

2009-09-09 Thread Rob Ross
Greetings LA CocoaHeads. This Thursday, Ron will be demoing his iPhone app “The DVD Bit Budget Assistant”, and showing some of the facets that went into creating it. More info on the app itself at http://www.editgroove.com/ We meet at the offices of E! Entertainment at 7:30pm. Our meeting

[MEET]: LA Cocoa Heads Thursday 8/13 7:30pm

2009-08-11 Thread Rob Ross
Greetings LA CocoaHeads. This Thursday 8/13, Niilo Tippler will be showing some graphic experiments that he built in Flash - stuff that demonstrates some physics, springing, gravity, etc. - and ported over to the iPhone, explaining how they work and the differences he found between the

[MEET] Reminder : LA CocoaHeads meeting tonight at 7:30pm

2009-07-09 Thread Rob Ross
Greetings LA CocoaHeads. Tonight will be seeing a demo of the iPhone app TapStar and discussing what went into making it. You can read about TapStar here: http://toucharcade.com/2009/07/03/tapstar-sony-music-licensed-rhythm-game/ We will also be discussing the public announcements from WWDC

Re: Amount of Arguments per Method

2009-06-22 Thread Rob Ross
I actually had to use that method once in one of my very first Cocoa apps. My personal rule of thumb for my own code is, when a method I write has more than 3 parameters I start to suspect there's a more OO way of breaking up the problem. Huge argument lists indicate a procedural design,

Re: App does not start on a different machine

2009-06-10 Thread Rob Ross
You could try adding logging statements after major milestones in your start-up sequence, and see what the last one it writes is. That might give you a clue how far it's getting (if at all) before it quits. It you don't even see the first message (which you should add as the very first

[MEET] LA CocoaHeads TONIGHT 4/9 7:30pm

2009-04-09 Thread Rob Ross
room 3A at around 7:45pm . If you arrive late, please ask the building security personnel in the lobby to direct you to the E! Security office, and they will be able to contact the group in conference room 3A and send someone down to meet you. Rob Ross, Lead Software Engineer E! Networks

[MEET] CocoaHeads-LA meeting Thu 4/9 7:30pm

2009-04-06 Thread Rob Ross
to conference room 3A at around 7:45pm . If you arrive late, please ask the building security personnel in the lobby to direct you to the E! Security office, and they will be able to contact the group in conference room 3A and send someone down to meet you. Rob Ross

Re: NSProgressIndicator's setUsesThreadedAnimation only works sometimes?

2009-03-13 Thread Rob Ross
No, none at all. The main AppKit thread is the thread that will be repainting your progress bar. If it's blocked, it can't paint the new state of your progress bar. Rob On Mar 13, 2009, at 3:20 PM, Sean McBride wrote: Hi all, I'm trying to make a cheap, modal, indeterminate progress

Re: NSProgressIndicator's setUsesThreadedAnimation only works sometimes?

2009-03-13 Thread Rob Ross
, sometimes my 'hint' is accepted and the progress bar animates, and I am definitely blocking the main thread with my own code at the same time. But it only works sometimes, and I'm looking to make it work all the time. But the docs are not encouraging. On 3/13/09 3:25 PM, Rob Ross said: No, none

[MEET] LA CocoaHeads 3/12/09 at 7:30pm

2009-03-10 Thread Rob Ross
to direct you to the E! Security office, and they will be able to contact the group in conference room 3A and send someone down to meet you. Rob Ross, Lead Software Engineer E! Networks --- Beware of he who would deny you access to information

Re: Disabled button looks like enabled

2009-01-12 Thread Rob Ross
He's also a little hung up on premature optimization. Knuth would not be pleased. Donnie, What system resources are you trying to free up ?? And why?? Rob On Jan 12, 2009, at 11:47 AM, I. Savant wrote: On Mon, Jan 12, 2009 at 2:24 PM, Donnie Lee lpr...@gmail.com wrote: I am curious to

Re: CAD programming.

2009-01-11 Thread Rob Ross
Books: This is pretty definitive: http://www.amazon.com/Programming-Quartz-Graphics-Kaufmann-Computer/dp/0123694736/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8s=booksqid=1231668829sr=1-1 This is much shorter, but a good quick start:

[MEET] LA CocoaHeads Thursday 10/23 7:30pm

2008-10-20 Thread Rob Ross
and send someone down to meet you. Rob Ross, Lead Software Engineer E! Networks --- Beware of he who would deny you access to information, for in his heart he dreams himself your master. -- Commissioner Pravin Lal

[MEET] LA CocoaHeads meeting tonight 7:30pm

2008-09-25 Thread Rob Ross
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[MEET] LA CocoaHeads : Thursday 9/25 7:30pm

2008-09-19 Thread Rob Ross
and send someone down to meet you. Rob Ross, Lead Software Engineer E! Networks --- Beware of he who would deny you access to information, for in his heart he dreams himself your master. -- Commissioner Pravin Lal

[MEET] : LA CocoaHeads next Thursday, 9/11 7:30pm

2008-09-05 Thread Rob Ross
and send someone down to meet you. Rob Ross, Lead Software Engineer E! Networks --- Beware of he who would deny you access to information, for in his heart he dreams himself your master. -- Commissioner Pravin Lal

[Meet] LA CocoaHeads tonight, 8/28 7:30pm

2008-08-28 Thread Rob Ross
the group in conference room 3A and send someone down to meet you. Rob Ross, Lead Software Engineer E! Networks --- Beware of he who would deny you access to information, for in his heart he dreams himself your master. -- Commissioner Pravin Lal

[MEET]: LA CocoaHeads starting group study of Hillegass book.

2008-08-15 Thread Rob Ross
If you are in Los Angeles and interested in participating in a group book study of Hillegass' Cocoa Programming for Mac OS X, 3rd Edition, http://search.barnesandnoble.com/Cocoa-Programming-for-Mac-OS-X/Aaron- Hillegass/e/9780321503619/?itm=1 please sign up with the (very low traffic) LA

[Meet]: LA CocoaHeads Thursday August 14th, 7:30pm

2008-08-12 Thread Rob Ross
and send someone down to meet you. If you have any questions, please email Rob Ross at rross at comcastnetsdhotcom Rob Ross, Lead Software Engineer E! Networks --- ___ Cocoa-dev mailing list (Cocoa

Re: get prefixes in Cocoa

2008-07-30 Thread Rob Ross
the get idiom means that you are passing in pointer arguments to the method, and the method will mutate(modify) the pointed-to objects. It's an alternate way of retrieving data from a method call as opposed to the usual function return value. Rob Ross, Lead Software Engineer E! Networks

[MEET] : LA CocoaHeads : 7/17/08 7:30pm

2008-07-16 Thread Rob Ross
late, please ask the building security personnel in the lobby to direct you to the E! Security office, and they will be able to contact the group in conference room 3A and send someone down to meet you. If you have any questions, please email Rob Ross at rross at comcastnetsdhotcom Rob

Re: Learning How to Program in Objective-C

2008-07-11 Thread Rob Ross
-C programmer, you still might find uses for it. And finally, there's a Cocoa-Python bridge, which means after you become more proficient with Python, you'll be able to use it to write Cocoa- apps. When you start doing that, you're probably ready to learn Objective-C. Rob Ross, Lead

Re: Style Question: apology and correction

2008-06-30 Thread Rob Ross
On Jun 27, 2008, at 10:25 PM, Jens Alfke wrote: On 27 Jun '08, at 9:45 PM, Rob Ross wrote: Btw, how many people realize this convention comes from the early KR C book, and the *only* reason they wrote it this way was to minimize the number of lines of text their examples would take up

Re: Style Question

2008-06-28 Thread Rob Ross
On Jun 28, 2008, at 6:39 AM, Sam Mo wrote: On Jun 28, 2008, at 4:54 AM, Robert Claeson wrote: On 28 Jun 2008, at 06:30, Alex Wait wrote: I have noticed, coming from C++ and Visual Studio (at school), a couple style differences if (value) { //do something } insteasd of if (value) {

Re: simple question about passing around pointers to objects

2008-06-27 Thread Rob Ross
leak, since o will never be deallocated. Rob Ross, Lead Software Engineer E! Networks --- Beware of he who would deny you access to information, for in his heart he dreams himself your master. -- Commissioner Pravin Lal On Jun 27, 2008

Re: Style Question

2008-06-27 Thread Rob Ross
and does the right thing. So type your {, hit return, type your next line, hit return, and see if that then indents the previous line for you. Rob Ross, Lead Software Engineer E! Networks --- Beware of he who would deny you access to information

[MEET]: Los Angeles CocoaHeads Thursday April 10th 7:30pm

2008-04-07 Thread Rob Ross
, and they will be able to contact the group in conference room 3A and send someone down to meet you. If you have any questions, please email Rob Ross at rross at eentertainmentdotcom Rob Ross, Lead Software Engineer E! Networks --- Beware of he who would

[MEET]: Los Angeles CocoaHeads Thursday March 13th 7:30pm

2008-03-11 Thread Rob Ross
:30. If you arrive late, please ask the building security personnel in the lobby to direct you to the E! Security office, and they will be able to contact the group in conference room 3A and send someone down to meet you. If you have any questions, please email Rob Ross at rross