Dimensions
100 x 100 x 100mm
The only book that illuminates Mac OS X's 'plumbing,' delivering nitty-gritty insights that separate great OS X programmers from beginners!
* Leverage the full power of multithreading, IPC, networking, Bonjour, the UNIX APIs, and much more
* Make the most of gcc, the linker, the debugger, Subversion, and OS X performance tools.
* Part of a brand-new series of Mac development guides from Aaron Hillegass and the legendary Mac programming experts at The Big Nerd Ranch, the leader in professional training for Mac developers!
In this sophisticated, example-rich book, the legendary Mac programming experts at The Big Nerd Ranch dive deep under the hood with Mac OS X and show how to build outstanding applications that leverage its full, untapped power. The authors offer unprecedented practical insight into three areas of OS X development:
* Standard Unix APIs, functions, and structures -- whether used directly or through higher-level abstractions.
* Apple's amazingly powerful, poorly documented Framework APIs.
* Mac OS X's Unix-based development tools, including gcc, gdb, the linker, make, and Subversion.
Readers will learn techniques for dramatically improving application performance, reliability, responsiveness, and security; adding networking capabilities to event-driven applications; making networked applications Bonjour-aware; and much more. The authors provide extensive sample code: the majority written in ANSI C, with some written in Objective-C for Cocoa. This title is part of the brand-new Big Nerd Ranch Press series: the world's best books on Mac and iPhone development, straight from the world's #1 Mac programming trainers - Aaron Hillegass and Big Nerd Ranch!
