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[Moderator] List guidelines and related resources


  • Subject: [Moderator] List guidelines and related resources
  • From: mmalcolm crawford <email@hidden>
  • Date: Tue, 21 Feb 2006 01:30:39 -0800


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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!).

In 2005, over 26,000 messages were sent to the list. In order to keep the list useful and to maximise your chances of getting an answer to your question, please stay on topic and adhere to the guidelines given in:

    "How To Ask Questions The Smart Way"
    <http://www.catb.org/~esr/faqs/smart-questions.html>

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Cocoa-related resources -----------------------

Cocoa-related resources that may answer your question without the need to wait for a reply from the list:

Apple's online documentation

The Cocoa Getting Started page.
If you haven't read any Cocoa documentation and want to learn about
the technology, you should begin with this.
<http://developer.apple.com/referencelibrary/GettingStarted/ GS_Cocoa/>



<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 about the same time that updates are published on the web site.



Developers are strongly discouraged from attempting to reformulate Cocoa's memory management rules in posts to the list. Almost invariably, someone makes a subtle or not-so-subtle mistake which then results in confusion and additional messages to resolve the issue. Simply post links to the relevant documentation, such as:
<http://developer.apple.com/documentation/Cocoa/Conceptual/ MemoryMgmt/Tasks/MemoryManagementRules.html>





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



List archives <http://lists.apple.com/archives/cocoa-dev>

    Combined Apple and Omni Cocoa developer list archives
    <http://www.cocoabuilder.com/>


Cocoa-related sites <http://www.cocoadev.com/> <http://www.cocoadevcentral.com/> <http://www.stepwise.com/>


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 --------------

In addition to the guidelines given in "How To Ask Questions The Smart Way", 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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