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Grand Central Dispatch, or GCD for short, is a low-level C API that works with block objects. The real use for GCD is to dispatch tasks to multiple cores without making you, the programmer, worry abou...
Block objects are packages of code that usually appear in the form of methods in Objective-C. In this excerpt from Concurrent Programming in Mac OS X and iOS the author speaks to their purpose and use...
In this video, I will show you how you can set up your environment for writing books using DocBook on Mac OS X. This is the first video in the series of 4 videos that I'm preparing, showing author...
Ever wanted to rename multiple files in Mac OS X? Well, here is your answer...
Learn more about this topic from iOS 4 Programming Cookbook. You can build a variety of amazing apps on the...
This screencast will show you how to check your hard drive for errors in Windows 7. Before Windows 7 this was taken care of automatically with a program called ScanDisk. The content in this screencast...
This screencast will show you how to change some of the folder options in Windows 7, including how to show file extensions. The content in this screencast is from Windows 7: The Missing Manual.
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The following is an excerpt from Junos Security. Below the author shows you how to get a Junos device up and running with base configuration settings.Logging in to a command line for the first time ca...
If Windows Search is an important part of your daily workflow, you might be interested to know that there have been some enhancements since Vista. This excerpt from Tulloch, Northrup, & Honeycutt's ...
Answered by gavin.carothers : Apr 08 2010 02:26 PM
The agreement seems to leave the door open for PhoneGap. To me PhoneGap is the most interesting of the "development frameworks" for the iPad/iPhone.
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