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Friday, October 07, 2005

Blog coverage

Following are the questions I would like to cover in this blog:

Developer Related Questions

  1. How mac os x boots up ?
  2. Architecture of Mac OS X ?
  3. Objective C is a superset of C. Describe the enchancement over C in terms of
  4. object-orientation, messaging and new concepts ?
  5. Write a small cocoa application using core-data ?
  6. How is terminal different from xterm ?
  7. Describe HFS+ filesystem ? How is it different from a typical linux/unix filesy
  8. stem ? Describe the Linux filesystem used ?
  9. What are precompiled headers on Mac OS X ?
  10. What is prebinding on Mac OS X ?
  11. What are bundles and frameworks and packages ?
  12. What is packagemaker ? What new features does it provide for Tiger ?
User Related questions

  1. How do you add/remove startup items in mac os x ?
  2. Where are user/system preferences located ?
OS X binaries - Mac-O
  • Not statically linked, not dynamically linked
  • Linker called at runtime to determine dependencies and write binding information to binary-called prebinding changes checksums. Further invocations of binary use prebound info

Thursday, October 06, 2005

Hello world

retaining mac knowledge in india is as difficult as Learning mac because its used
here rarely. In this blog i am trying to enumerate my learning experiences, and consolidate them. Scope of the content would be from beginners to intermediate.