Late Night Cocoa Episode 037

Scotty interviews Mike Taylor on porting large applications to the Mac platform

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Late Night Cocoa

Late Night Cocoa was MDN's first ever podcast starting back in January 2007. Each episode consists of an interview by Scotty with an expert on a single subject. Late Night Cocoa ended after 41 episodes in March 2009 when it became a segment of the newly formed MDN Show

Show Notes

  • Introduction
  • Questions to ask before considering a port
  • Cocoa or Carbon and Why?
  • Mac C++ Compilers
  • Objective C++
  • Cross Platform Build Systems
  • Main Issues for porting applications
  • Develop Using Scripting Languages
  • Memory Management
  • User Interfaces
  • Installation
  • Frameworks
  • Help
  • Starting a cross platform app from scratch 

Special Guest

Name: Mike Taylor
Company : Hey Mac
Blog: Mike's Blog
Twitter: @heymacheymac

Mike Taylor has been a 3D graphics and animation software developer for the past 14 years. A long-time Mac champion, Mike was involved in the port of the Maya 3D software to the Mac, and was later responsible for maintaining Maya on that platform. Over the past year he has been busy porting the award-winning Houdini 3D software to the Mac

 

Show Host

Name: Steve (Scotty) Scott
Company : mamooba
Blog: Scotty's blog
Twitter: @macdevnet

Steve "Scotty" Scott is the founder of The Mac Developer Network, co-organizer of NSConference and developer of TrackTime.

 

Show Statistics & Information

Running Time: 1 hr 21 mins
Download Size: 38MB
Download: Late Night Cocoa Episode 037