"Japanese alarm company Sohgo Security Services Co. demonstrates the company's newly developed security robot 'Guardrobo D1' in Tokyo June 23, 2005. The robot, which is equipped with a fire extinguishing system, will be introduced into their security system within a year, company officials said. (Issei Kato/Reuters)"
DROP YOUR WEAPON. YOU HAVE FIVE SECONDS TO COMPLY.
Cocoa programming
What's a good tutorial on writing native, modern OSX programs? I figured I'd start by porting Dali Clock since that's both pretty simple and somewhat ironic.
I gather that use of the XCode interface builder and stuff is pretty much mandatory?
I found Apple's "Currency Converter" tutorial, but I find it kind of opaque. Like, how do I cause a window to appear when the Preferences menu item is selected? Where do I store my settings? Stuff like that.
Update: Online resources greatly preferred to paper books. I gather that this "dead tree" medium is still popular, but I find it really awkward for things like this.
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