Two videos and slides of the April Cocoaheads meeting is now available online. For details, see Scott Stevenson's blog entry. There's a total of some 750MB of material.

It featured Scott (seen above) on user interface design, and Joar (below) digging into the debugger.

I'm in the audience asking intelligent questions.

Tags: Cocoa, CocoaHeads, Mac OS X, Movies, Xcode

Hardmac is reporting that 10.5.2 will bring RAW support for Nikon D300 and D3 cameras.

Tags: Nikon, Mac OS X, Updates, RAW, DSLR

Stanford University has a Cocoa programming course. Information about the course, code, and the lecture slides are available online.

Tags: Cocoa, Learning, Mac OS X, Programming

I agree with Gruber. Ars has an excellent behind-the-scenes review. Leopard has a lot of polish and great tools under the hood as well as a nice shine coat on the bodywork.

Tags: Leopard, Mac OS X, Cocoa, Review

There are many changes in Cocoa beyond the obvious XCode enhancements and brand new Interface Builder. I have had scant time to delve into all of this, but Matt Gemmell has, and he has posted a long list of improvements that have been provided for us behind the scenes.

Behind the scenes views must be his forte because his about page reveals every last detail about him, down to the color of his underwear (well almost -- but it does mention socks).

Tags: Cocoa, Leopard, Socks, Xcode, Mac OS X

As everyone who has not been unconscious for the last few days knows, Mac OS X 10.5 aka Leopard will be available October 26th at 6pm. [Update: A 380MB 30 minute Guided Tour is now available]

I plan on getting a copy just about when it comes out at the Valley Fair Apple store in San Jose that evening. I'll probably have my camera there to record the insanity as well.

I have a new firewire drive on its way that is destined to replace a now too small drive that I use for daily SuperDuper back ups. That older drive will become free and available as a play pen for my new cat friend. I plan on getting familiar with the beast for quite a while before I am sure that everything I need will run OK.

I'm expecting new RAW processing abilities to appear, either with Leopard or shortly after, but don't expect to see another version of Aperture for a while.

Tags: Mac OS X, Leopard, Apple Store

From the notes for the Mac OS X 10.4.10 update posted today (Intel and PPC):

-Adds RAW image decoding support for the following cameras: Panasonic DMC-LX1, Panasonic DMC-LX2, Leica M8, Leica D-LUX 2, Leica D-LUX 3, Fuji S5 Pro, Nikon D40x, and Canon EOS 1D Mk III.

Tags: Mac OS X, Updates, Aperture

I tried to move some large files from one place on my hard drive to another today and found what looks to me like a bug in the 10.4.8 Finder. A move like that should be quick: all it does is move pointers around in the filing system. None of the file data is copied.

But I got a dialog that showed it was copying. So I cancelled that, and tried again, this time making sure that I really didn't hold Option down to turn a move into a copy. But even without Option I got the green + showing that a copy was going to take place. Huh?

Here is the bug: if you try to move a bunch of files and at least one of them is locked, the whole list of files is copied to the new destination, not just the locked ones that cannot be deleted after the copy. I find it hard to believe that this is the intended behavior.

Tags: Mac OS X, Bugs, Interesting Stuff