Author:
Mark Fenoglio
Content management is a nearly universal challenge when discussing any data-driven web site. As a developer, you can create your own system or use any one of a number of sophisticated open-source or third-party packages. Many times, however, you have a simple concept in mind and you want to create your own — especially if you have very specific needs that existing solutions cannot easily accommodate.…
Author:
Nate Osborne
Graphical remote login sessions can be valuable tools for cross-platform server administration. This article is an overview of the best applications for cross-platform GUI remote login in a mixed network of Windows, Mac OS X, and Unix computers.
Want your Windows, Mac OS, and Unix computers to play nice together?…
Author:
Chris Kelly
Supporting old OS versions is always a lot of work for application developers.
Apple provides a way for the developer to specify the minimum required OS X version for an application by setting the LSMinimumSystemVersion key of the Info.plist file. The OS will then present the user with an error message if they try to run the application on an older version of the system.…
Author:
Aaron Hillegass
With Tiger, Apple has started using SQLite in many ways. Most notably, SQLite is the recommended store for Core Data applications. This column, which originally appeared in MacTech Magazine covers some of the things any Cocoa developer should know about SQLite.…