Apple Developer Connection News •  December 8, 2006 • Issue 473

Captivate Users with Compelling New Features

Innovative Application Technologies available in Leopard.

The Leopard Technology Series for Developers provides valuable insights into how you can take advantage of the tools and technologies available in
Mac OS X Leopard. The latest article in this series describes how the robust application technologies in Leopard, such as Time Machine, iChat Theater, and Calendar Store enable you to add rich and compelling new features in your application, while Core Animation and 64-bit support provide you with a solid development foundation.

If you're not already an ADC Premier or Select Member, get the Leopard Early Start Kit and begin developing with these new technologies today.

Take Advantage of Bug Reporting Best Practices

Complete, high-quality, reproducible bug reports from developers help to isolate and target known issues in system and application software. Take advantage of best practices that Apple has developed in partnership with our third party developer community, that can expedite your bugs through our process, and be used in your own bug processes.

Reserve Your Spot at a Leopard Tech Talk Today

ADC Premier, Select, Online and Student Members can register for a free Leopard Tech Talk. With live, in-depth presentations, demonstrations and Q&A, Leopard Tech Talks are an ideal way to explore the technology behind exciting new features in the next major release of Mac OS X. Perfect for commercial developers, in-house developers, scripters, and web developers, Tech Talks provide essential information to help start your Leopard development now. Limited space is available, so register today for a Tech Talk coming to a city near you!


New on the ADC Website

ADC Articles
Using the ImageIO Framework with Mac OS X 10.4 Tiger

ImageIO is the definitive way to access image data on Mac OS X. Read this article to learn how to incorporate ImageIO into your application.

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Reference Library
Technical Q&A: Debugging NSTableView's 'Action Invocation' binding
Sample Code: SimpleCarbonAppleScript
Sample Code: SetMouseAcclSample
Technical Q&A: NSProgressIndicator animation and redraw
Technical Q&A: Integrating With The Connect to Server Dialog
Technical Q&A: Debugging a Web Kit Plug-in in Xcode
Technical Q&A: FSDeleteObject fails with fBsyErr, sometimes
Sample Code: MovieAssembler
Technical Q&A: Standard Audio - The CodecSpecificSettingsArray and MagicCookie properties
Technical Q&A: Why am I getting a bdNamErr when trying to use a file I just located?
Technical Note: Playing a sound file using the Default Output Audio Unit
Technical Q&A: Compression Sequence APIs - codecErr returned when compressing with H.264
Technical Q&A: Configuring the Recent Searches menu for NSSearchField
Technical Q&A: Standard Audio - Parsing the kQTSCAudioPropertyID_CodecSpecificSettingsArray property
Technical Q&A: Why is my application crashing in QuickDraw when I'm not using it?

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In the Community

New Rails Web Development Book From Pragmatic Bookshelf
Agile Web Development with Rails — Second Edition describes how to use Rails Active Record to connect business objects and database tables. You'll also learn how to use the Action Pack framework to route incoming requests and render pages using easy-to-write templates and components. See how to exploit the Rails service frameworks to send emails, talk to web services, and interact dynamically with Javascript applications running in the browser.

developer Tools
Agilian 1.0
DB Visual ARCHITECT 4.0
Business Process Visual ARCHITECT 2.0

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Unix & Open Source
Samba 3.0.23d
RDC 1.0b
Python Application Stub 1.0.18

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December 8, 2006 • Issue 473
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