Mastering
Xcode 4
Develop and Design
Joshua Nozzi
Mastering
Xcode 4
Develop and Design
Joshua Nozzi
Mastering Xcode 4: Develop and Design
Joshua Nozzi
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Thanks to all my peers, friends, and family for their enthusiastic support,
to a great team of professionals for helping me reach this goal,
and to Matt for putting up with yet another of
my time-consuming projects.
Acknowledgments
I wish to thank the following people whose work I used while writing this book.
CyRIl GODEfROy
Cyril’s masterfully broken code examples demonstrated some nice highlights of
the Clang Static Analyzer. You can find them at />
COlIN WhEElER
Colin’s Xcode shortcut cheat sheet saved me loads of tedium when creating
Appendix B. You can find the original, downloadable version that Colin maintains
at />
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MASTERING XCODE 4
Third-pArTy resOUrces
Stack Overflow ( />Stack Overflow is a great developer resource with questions tagged by topic. Questions and answers are voted up or down depending on their clarity and usefulness,
encouraging thoughtful questions and answers by community members.
CocoaDev Wiki ()
Although somewhat dated, this community-built wiki was pumped full of useful
Cocoa developer information over the course of the last decade and still contains
many valuable lessons for beginner, intermediate, and expert developers.
Cocoa Dev Central ()
This celebrated collection of informative how-to articles contains many Cocoa
developer favorites. It’s worth browsing.
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