Bob McCune

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I’d like to officially announce that CocoaHeads of Minnesota is on! My friends at Synergy Information Services have graciously offered to host the meetings at their offices in Bloomington, MN. Our regular meeting schedule will be the second Thursday of the month at 6:00pm. We’ll be kicking things off on June 12th [...]

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I wanted to send out an update regarding CocoaHeads. I got the official green light this week from Mark Dalrymple, the founder of CocoaHeads, to move forward with starting a new chapter in the Twin Cities! I’ve just started looking for a place to meet so if you know of available office space, [...]

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I am considering starting a CocoaHeads chapter in the Twin Cities. What is CocoaHeads you ask? I’ll use the home office’s definition:
CocoaHeads is a group devoted to discussion of Apple Computer’s Cocoa Framework for programming on MacOS X. During monthly meetings, members present on their projects and offer tutorials on various programming topics.
I think this [...]

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If you’re a new XCode user you’ve probably noticed the default header comments in your .h and .m files reference this phantom entity called, __MyCompanyName__. As you most likely don’t work for __MyCompanyName__, let’s change it to something more appropriate.
This value is stored in the PBXCustomTemplateMacroDefinitions dictionary in the com.apple.Xcode domain. You could [...]

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Over the past few months I’ve been spending a lot my free time learning Objective-C and Cocoa. Although it’s been fun learning a new language and framework, it has been somewhat of an uphill climb. Objective-C was the easy part. If you have some familiarity with C and also some experience with [...]

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For the past few months I’ve been spending a considerable amount of my free time learning Objective-C and Cocoa. Apple’s Leopard release has introduced so many new and interesting developer technologies that I decided it was finally time to dive in and learn to write code for my favorite platform.
One of the new Leopard [...]

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