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Jul 9, 2004, No. 405
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We hope you enjoy this week's double edition of the ADC News covering all that happened during and after WWDC 2004. The regular ADC News schedule returns starting next week. Look for ADC News #406 to arrive on Friday, July 16.
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WWDC 2004 News Wrap-Up
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[1] 2004 Apple Design Award Winners
[2] Apple Previews Mac OS X "Tiger"
[3] Apple Previews Mac OS X Server "Tiger"
[4] Apple Previews Xcode 2 with New Features & Enhanced Performance
[5] H.264 Video Codec Adopted for Next Generation DVDs
[6] Rendezvous Technology Preview
A preview release of Rendezvous technology for Windows 2000, Windows XP, and various POSIX platforms including Linux, Solaris, and FreeBSD is now available. In addition, Rendezvous service discovery can also be called from Java.
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ADC Member News
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[7] ADC Mailing for July 2004
The ADC Mailing for July 2004 shipped on July 9, 2004. Please allow 3-10 days for delivery.
[8] June 2004 Developer Documentation PDF
The Apple Developer Connection is now offering a monthly collection of Reference Library Documentation in PDF. ADC members may log in to their ADC account to download PDF package located in "Download Software - Reference Library."
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Hardware
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[9] Revised Hardware Reference Library Documents
Documentation: Audio, FireWire, SCSI, Storage, USB Device Access
Documentation: Force Feedback Device Access
Documentation: Power Mac G5 Developer Note
[10] USB Software Debug Kit
The USB Software Debug Kit for Mac OS X 10.3.4 is now available.
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Internet and Server
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[11] New Networking Reference Library Document
Documentation: Managing Networked Storage With Xsan
[12] Revised Networking Reference Library Document
Documentation: Network Configuration, Connection, and Reachability
[13] System Administration Tool News: Actual ODBC Drivers, bizDAV 2.0.1, FmPro Migrator 2.08, Oracle Database 10g for Mac OS X
Actual ODBC Drivers from Actual Technologies allow Microsoft Excel or ODBC-ready applications written in Carbon, Cocoa or REALbasic to access data from MySQL and PostgreSQL databases. The driver includes a setup assistant, on-line help, and diagnostic tools.
bizDAV 2.0.1 from RCMDEV simplifies system administration and offers companies using web-based applications a solution to manage their users, groups, and clients and access privileges to those applications. bizDAV 2.0.1 provides multi-level administration, optimal security, licensing, audit logging, and more.
FmPro Migrator 2.08 Enterprise Edition from .com Solutions has been updated with support for Oracle 10g databases on Mac OS X. Enhancements have also been made for PostgreSQL migrations, including the migration of large JPEG images and the generation of Perl CGI scripts for migrated FileMaker databases.
Oracle Database 10g Early Adopters Release 2 (10.1.0.3) for Mac OS X is now available.
[14] Web Development Tool News: PDFkit framework 2.0.1, LISTedit framework 2.0.1
PDFkit framework 2.0.1 from RCMDEV offers a solution for generating PDF reports from WebObjects. This Java API offers optimized PDF output, supports for 300 server-side fonts and international paper sizes, tutorials, detailed documentation and more, without having to work with template files.
LISTedit framework 2.0.1 from RCMDEV enables developers to create fully functional web applications with a consistent graphical user interface. This Java API offers PDF reporting, login/logout controls, flexible session management, javascript rollover DHTML layers, customization features, data export, user-friendly help, and more.
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Java
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[15] New Java Reference Library Document
Documentation: DNSServiceDiscovery API Reference for Java
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Mac OS X
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[16] New Carbon Reference Library Document
Documentation: Upgrading to the Mac OS X HIToolbox
[17] Revised Carbon Reference Library Documents
Documentation: QuickDraw Reference
Documentation: Transitioning to Quartz 2D
[18] Revised Cocoa Reference Library Documents
Documentation: Application Menus and Pop-up Lists
Documentation: Basic Event Handling
Documentation: Drawing and Views
Documentation: Integrating Carbon and Cocoa in Your Application
Documentation: Matrices
Documentation: Search Fields
Documentation: Strings
Documentation: Workspace Services
[19] Revised Core Foundation Reference Library Document
Documentation: Core Foundation Reference
[20] Revised Darwin Reference Library Documents
Documentation: Device Drivers (Kernel/IOKit)
Documentation: HeaderDoc Unfettered
Documentation: Kernel Extensions (Kernel/libkern)
[21] Revised Graphics & Imaging Reference Library Document
Documentation: Drawing With Quartz 2D
[22] New Mac OS X Reference Library Documents
Sample Code: DialogsToHIViews
Sample Code: HIObjectThreadController
Sample Code: SimplePlayThru
Sample Code: SpellingChecker-CocoaCarbon
[23] Revised Mac OS X Reference Library Document
Sample Code: CocoaInCarbon
[24] Revised Security Reference Library Documents
Documentation: Enabling Secure Storage With Keychain Services
Documentation: Security Objective-C API (Preliminary)
[25] New Tools Reference Library Document
Documentation: Xcode Workflow
[26] Revised User Experience Reference Library Documents
Documentation: Adding Search to Your Application (Preliminary)
Documentation: Search Kit Reference
[27] Macintosh Products Guide: July 6 Edition of New Arrivals
Check out the latest edition of New Arrivals in the Macintosh Products Guide which highlights the newest and hottest products for Mac OS X. Learn about Band-in-a-Box by PG Music, Space Colony by Aspyr Media, DX Toolbox by Black Cat Systems, and more.
[28] Mac OS X Tool News: Excelsior! 2, GNU Pascal plugins for MetroWerks CodeWarrior
Excelsior! 2 from Jim Rankin is a framework for easily translating data between Objective C objects and XML. Use it to marshal objects into XML templates, access XML data through key value coding, and more. New features include reuseable mappings, switch mappings based on tag names, and bug fixes.
Microbizz has released GNU Pascal plugins for MetroWerks CodeWarrior. The compiler and linker plugins create Mach-O application packages, frameworks, loadable bundles, applications, command line tools, dynamic libraries, static archive libraries, relocatable object files and bundle files. A 30-day trial version is available.
For more development tools:
Macintosh Products Guide
Mac OS X Downloads
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Training and Events
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[29] Mac OS X and Mac OS X Server Technical Training & Certification
Apple offers a variety of training courses. We offer both instructor-led and self-paced learning targeted at multiple levels of expertise, including new Mac users, creative professionals, IT professionals and developers. Instructor-led courses focus on technical training targeted at support staffs, such as a Help Desk Professional, Technical Coordinator and System Administrator. Self-paced courses are designed for new Mac users.
[30] Developer Training and Seminars
Core Mac OS X and Unix Bootcamp
July 19-23 in Atlanta, GA
Summer Session of Introduction to Cocoa Programming
July 24-25 in Montreal, CANADA
Internet Application Development Using WebObjects
July 26 in Reston, VA
August 2 in Cupertino, CA
Ongoing: Apache Bootcamp
Ongoing: OpenGL Shading Language Seminars
Ongoing: Apple Training Courses
Ongoing: FileMaker Professional Foundation Training Series II
[31] Developer Events
A special hardware discount program is available to ADC Premier and Select exhibitors at several major trade shows.
ADHOC/MacHack 19
July 21-24 in Dearborn, MI
NAMM
July 23-25 in Nashville, TN
O'Reilly Open Source Convention (OSCON)
July 26-30 in Portland, OR
ADC Members receive a 15% discount, use code:os4adc
Siggraph
August 3-12 in Los Angeles, CA
Apple Expo
August 31-September 4 in Paris, France
IBC
September 9-14 in Amsterdam, Netherlands
Web 2.0 Conference
October 5-7 in San Francisco, CA
O'Reilly Mac OS X Conference
October 25-28 in Santa Clara, CA
European Revolution Conference
November 14-16 in Malta
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Other
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[32] O'Reilly Mac OS X Innovators Contest
O'Reilly Media has launched its annual Mac OS X Innovators Contest. This event is an opportunity for ingenious developers to showcase their best Mac creations. Entries are due at 5PM PDT, Tuesday, August 31, 2004 and the winners will be announced at the O'Reilly Mac OS X Conference the last week of October in Santa Clara, CA.
[33] Trolltech Announces Winners of Qt/Mac Development Contest
Trolltech has selected the winners of their worldwide Qt/Mac development contest for developers who created the best original and ported Qt application (Qt is a multiplatform, C++ application framework that lets developers write an application once, which will run natively on Mac OS X, as well as on Windows, LINUX/UNIX, and embedded Linux with a simple recompile).
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