Apparently Apple’s Cocoa method availability documentation is not enough to determine whether something will work on an earlier version of Mac OS X. That is, avoiding 10.6-only methods doesn’t ensure that your application will also work flawlessly in 10.5. As a first-time Mac developer programming an application on Snow Leopard that is also targeted for…
Saving Quartz Composition for distribution
Today I learned a very important lesson when saving Quartz Composer composition files for use in other machines: always save the composition as a flat file. Even though according to Wikipedia that quartz composer version 4.0 saves virtual patches in the composition as a fallback, the composition may not run properly if it isn’t saved…
Choosing a crash reporting system for Cocoa
Are you writing a Cocoa application for Mac OS X? Then you’ll need a crash reporting back-end for your app. If you’re thinking of hosting your own crash reporting system, here are a few open-source libraries that you can consider.