[Moderator] Cocoa and list resources
[Moderator] Cocoa and list resources
- Subject: [Moderator] Cocoa and list resources
- From: mmalcolm crawford <email@hidden>
- Date: Wed, 21 Sep 2005 23:55:15 -0700
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Please bear in mind that there are several thousand subscribers to
the Cocoa-dev list, including many Apple engineers. Every post in
effect costs the Cocoa community hundreds of dollars to process (and
takes time away from the engineers who might be working on the fix to
your bug!). Please stay on topic.
Recommended additional reading for general guidelines on how to get
the best from a list:
"How To Ask Questions The Smart Way"
<http://www.catb.org/~esr/faqs/smart-questions.html>
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Cocoa-related resources that may answer your question without the
need to wait for a reply from the list:
Apple's online documentation
<http://developer.apple.com/documentation/>
<http://developer.apple.com/documentation/Cocoa/Cocoa.html>
Remember you can also view and search the documentation in Xcode --
see the "Help" menu. You can see all the methods associated with a
class (and links to relevant documentation) using Xcode's Class
Browser (see the Project > Class Browser menu item).
You can keep your local documentation up-to-date by using the
Documentation update preference in Xcode. Apple's developer
documentation is updated en bloc about once a month. An update
package is made available at the same time that updates are published
on the web site.
Developer examples
<file:///Developer/Examples/AppKit/>
"UNOFFICIAL Cocoa-dev Frequently Asked Questions"
<http://www.alastairs-place.net/cocoa/faq.txt>
Especially useful for pointers to documents relating to
memory management
and book recommendations
Pointers to other online resources
List archives
<http://lists.apple.com/archives/cocoa-dev>
Cocoa Bindings
<http://developer.apple.com/documentation/Cocoa/Conceptual/
CocoaBindings/>
<http://developer.apple.com/documentation/Cocoa/Reference/
CocoaBindingsRef/>
<http://developer.apple.com/cocoa/cocoabindings.html>
<http://homepage.mac.com/mmalc/CocoaExamples/controllers.html>
<http://www.cocoadevcentral.com/articles/000080.php>
<http://www.macdevcenter.com/pub/a/mac/2004/04/06/cocoa.html>
Google
<http://www.google.com/>
(It is sometimes the case that using the subject line of a post
as a search term in Google will yield an answer...)
List etiquette etc.
Please ensure that you abide by the list rules:
<http://lists.apple.com/tc.html>
<http://lists.apple.com/tips.html>
In particular: please "Edit included messages in replies to
minimize the amount of text." There is no need, for example,
to include the list footer in your reply...
Note that you should never post to the list any message that was
sent to you
privately unless you have the original author's permission.
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