October, 2009

XCode Tip : Documentation


When starting using XCode, I would recommend downloading the necessary documentation right away so that when you need to quickly search for something, its right there and takes a lot less time to load.

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Simple Cocoa Gradient View


In this tutorial we will be doing simple view programming by creating a very simple gradient view.

Sample code is attached below and if you want to download the complete XCode project, its attached below as well.

Optionally you could also add the angle property to it and synthesize it, to make the GradientView more customizable.

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How to : NTFS write support in Snow Leopard


No need for NTFS-3g or MacFuse to make your NTFS drives working under Snow Leopard.

Just follow these steps and have the NTFS write support on all the time.

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Let the coding begin!


I had ordered Aaron Hillegas’ book about learning Cocoa programming. It arrived this morning and after reading a couple of chapters I can say that I’m hooked!

Its really well written and is filled with helpful code to get started. Covers most of the tidbits that the newbie like me keeps wondering, “Hey how did they do that?”

I would recommend it to everyone who is starting to program in Cocoa.