Introduction

Welcome to Mac OS X: Advanced Development Techniques!

I hope you enjoy what I've put together for you here. The goal of this book is to create examples that you, as a developer, could use as jumping-off points for your own intermediate to advanced programming projects.

The book is being written for those of you who have had some OS X programming experience and understand basic programming concepts. Regarding experience, you should at least have created a “Hello World” application under OS X in either Cocoa or Carbon.

It is assumed that you will read the book more or less in order. Although each chapter can stand alone, similarities between projects are discussed in one chapter that might not be discussed in as much detail in later ...

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