To protect my pathetic bandwidth on the local server, the article is also available here on the graphics server. That should cover off any bandwidth issues.
Troy's article really does highlight the use of these environments for tools behind the scene's.. there is an older article on this as well that is linked from Troy's document.
He's a loner who's given it all to the job, and gotten no thanks for it. His personal life has gone to hell; he's brave and incorruptible despite living and working in a sea of wusses, back-stabbers and thieves.
The real pity here is that Apple HAS the cross-platform tools now to create applications that run on both Windows and Mac OS X Server.
The "Cocoa" frameworks allow you to do this, and they're a rich set of frameworks. Unfortunately the licensing prohibits wide distribution, and as of September, all the licensing options are gone completely.
The technology is there now. It has been used by Apple/NeXT for years now for development, and is used now in WebObjects for the development tools.
Other companies have developed the both general use apps (like drawing programs, db programs, etc..) and some truely amazing vertical market stuff.
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To protect my pathetic bandwidth on the local server, the article is also available here on the graphics server. That should cover off any bandwidth issues.
Troy's article really does highlight the use of these environments for tools behind the scene's.. there is an older article on this as well that is linked from Troy's document.
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He's a loner who's given it all to the job, and gotten no thanks for it. His personal life has gone to hell; he's brave and incorruptible despite living and working in a sea of wusses, back-stabbers and thieves.
Sounds like everyone who has worked for a dot.com
The "Cocoa" frameworks allow you to do this, and they're a rich set of frameworks. Unfortunately the licensing prohibits wide distribution, and as of September, all the licensing options are gone completely.
The technology is there now. It has been used by Apple/NeXT for years now for development, and is used now in WebObjects for the development tools.
Other companies have developed the both general use apps (like drawing programs, db programs, etc..) and some truely amazing vertical market stuff.
Scott Anguish
http://www.stepwise.com/
yes!
You want AutoDoc. It is the equiv of this program for Objective-C.
Have a look at http://www.stepwise.com/Softrak and search for AutoDoc.
Porting of console utilities is trivial in most cases. In this particular case, these aren't even Darwin apps.. these are Mac OS X Server apps.
Stone's apps are full GUI apps using Appkit, Foundation and other classes that are only available on Mac OS X Server.
Porting these to X or another windowing environment is non trivial (impossible without rewriting) without Apple's frameworks on those platforms.
Scott Anguish
http://www.stepwise.com/