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| Advanced Mac OS X Programming (2nd Edition of Core Mac OS X & Unix Programming) | 
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Avg. Customer Rating:  (based on 7 reviews)
Sales Rank: 53610
Category: Book
Authors: Mark Dalrymple, Aaron Hillegass
Publisher: Big Nerd Ranch
Studio: Big Nerd Ranch
Manufacturer: Big Nerd Ranch
Label: Big Nerd Ranch
Languages: English (Original Language), English (Unknown), English (Published)
Media: Paperback
Edition: 2
Number Of Items: 1
Pages: 646
Shipping Weight (lbs): 2.5
Dimensions (in): 9.7 x 7 x 1.5
ISBN: 0974078514
Dewey Decimal Number: 005
EAN: 9780974078519
ASIN: 0974078514
Publication Date: October 1, 2005
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 Probably more helpful for people with no/little Unix experience January 5, 2006
33 out of 43 found this review helpful
Although this book is well written in concept, the editing of the final product is awful. There are a great deal of grammatical errors which seemed to me a basic word-processor would have caught.
The book should be titled, more correctly, "Unix Programming for OS X." Unix system programmers will find almost nothing new in this book (gcc, gdb, file-systems, signals, libraries, etc. - although, the Objective-C examples can be helpful in understanding how to implement things in new ways, and also the chapter on Subversion was a nice introduction for me.)
If you are just learning how to program on a Unix platform, I'd recommend this book unequivocally. I paid full price for mine ($70), without taking a hard enough look at the contents and found myself with an expensive, redundant book on my shelf.
 All the neat tricks that aren't seen anywhere November 8, 2005
22 out of 22 found this review helpful
I convinced the school library to buy the old version as it's too expensive. This 2nd edition is a lot cheaper and has a lot more to offer than its previous incarnation.
A few specific things:
* The chapter of Subversion is very useful, with some small nice XCode integration walkthrough.
* Also the chaper of Daemons and launchd, probably the only book that mentioned this.
* CFRunLoop chapter is nice. My favourite chapter.
There're a lot other small tips and tricks that Apple should have documented nicely somewhere, like those environment variables DYLD_PRINT_LIBRARIES showing dynamic libraries in used.
Anyway, must have book for all MacOS X cocoa and unix developers!
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