Tutorial: Backup Your Open Directory Server Using Launchd for Mac
We’ve covered using launchd in the past for things like detecting when external drives are plugged in to initiate a backup….
Mac How To
Cocoa for Scientists (Part XXVI): Parsing CSV Data Mac
On quite a few occasions, MacResearch readers have posted questions asking how you parse CSV (comma-separated values) data in Cocoa….
A little bit of fun
This has nothing to do with science, although it is Mac related. In fact i really shouldn’t be posting about…
OpenMacGrid is Easy Peasy
Unless you were holed up in a cave last week, you probably saw our announcement of OpenMacGrid. Gaurav Khanna will be…
Generating Diagrams with Python and Quartz On Mac
Standard plotting and visualization packages are adequate for most researchers, most of the time, but what if you have to…
Performance Tutorial For Mac (Part II): Using Accelerate
In this tutorial we are going to take a closer look at the Accelerate framework, how to use it and…
Cocoa for Scientists for Mac (Part II): Classy Cocoa
In the first installment of this series on Cocoa programming for scientists, you got your first glimpse of Objective-C code. Hopefully you…
Cocoa for Scientists (Part XIV): Beginning 3D Visualization
We have now covered the fundamental aspects of Cocoa development in this tutorial series. From here on, we will branch…
Cocoa for Scientists (XXXIV): Scrapbook of an Advanced Core Animation View Mac
At NSConference 2010 I delivered a presentation on developing the iPhone game Sumo Master using the Core Animation framework. It covered the usual bag of tips…
Using VVI for Graphing on iPhone
This tutorial shows how to make an iPhone application that graphs your data. It also provides the fundamentals for incorporating…
Cocoa Tutorial: Image Kit, Cover Flow and Quicklook… doing things we shouldn’t but that are too fun to resist
Continuing from Part I of the IKImageBrowserView tutorial, I’m going to show you how to extend the project to do things that…
Cocoa for Scientists (XXXI): All Aboard Grand Central
A couple of weeks ago, Apple introduced Snow Leopard, an OS release that left many users cold, but got developers…
OpenCL Tutorial – Introduction to OpenCL
With the launch of Snow Leopard this Friday, now is the time to start getting revved up for some of…
Cocoa for Scientists (Part XXIX): This is the Message
In our last installment, we began a journey into the world of lowish-level networking on Mac OS X and iPhone….
Fixing Broken LaTeX Fonts in Leopard
Some of you may notice that applications using Apple’s PDF rendering engine under Leopard will not properly render certain documents…
What’s New on the Leopard Command Line?
Each new release of Mac OS X brings with it a range of new command-line tools, many of which go…
Tutorial: Intro to Core Animation
Core Animation, you’ve been hearing about how great it is, how it makes animation easier and how cool it is….
HOWTO start lots of matlab sessions on various Linux clusters comfortably from your Mac
*) Need to evaluate lots of day-lasting computations IN PARALLEL on different data sets (eg prediction features on EEG of…
A Few Command-Line Party Tricks
It never ceases to amaze me how much I still have to learn about the innards of Mac OS X….
The Xgrid Tutorials
Links to the Xgrid Security tutorials: Xgrid BasicsGridStuffer BasicsRunning Batch JobsUsing Ruby with XgridXgrid Leopard: the good, the bad, the…