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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You may have heard Apple has released a firmware update for the Airport Extreme Base Station (AEBS). This is a major update if you own an AEBS as it finally delivers the ability to wirelessly backup your Mac systems via Time Machine. Although Apple hasn’t yet publicly made that pronouncement, I can confirm [...]

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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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Today Apple released version 10.5.2 of Leopard. I normally wouldn’t get too excited about an OS point release, but 10.5.2 is definitely an exception. The reason being is Apple has fixed the two most widely panned changes in Leopard: the translucent menu bar and Stacks.
The translucent menu bar has to be the most [...]

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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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I’d like to say thanks to everyone who attended my Spring 2.5 presentation at last week’s TCJUG meeting. We had another good turnout, which is always nice to see. Jeff Jensen at Intertech is always a great host and I had a fun time presenting. I hope the info was useful to [...]

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