This feature alone, to me, is worth the low price of admission ($45). If I decide that I really should talk about queues before terminology, I can just drag the entity and rearrange things. If I wanted to make sure that the text flows into and out of that section, I can multi-select Time, Dispatch Groups, and Semaphores, and see those three sections of text in one editing panel, with subtle separators between the sections. If I’m wanting to edit the text for Dispatch Groups, I can select it in the Binder and focus in only on that text.
It has all of the sections of the chapter. Each entity can be as long or as short as it needs to be.įor example, this is the “binder”, the outline view, for the new GCD chapter: You can organize these entities in an outline, and Scrivener will automatically flow the text as if it were a larger document. Rather than having, say, a chapter of a book in one single Word or Pages document, you can have each section or sub-section of that chapter in an entity. Scrivener is a non-linear text editing environment. In all, about 18,000 words worth of work. The last three big chunks of new stuff for AMOSXP(3), (GCD, using Instruments, and a re-write and major updating of NSFileManager) were organized and written in Scrivener, and then later converted to DocBook for inclusion in the book. Scrivener is the latest to enter the pantheon of My Favorite Apps.
#Advanced mac os x programming the big nerd ranch guide software#
You can snarf the free sample and check out the table of contents.Įdit1: Folks have asked what’s new (skimming down the ToC – I’ve been living inside this thing, and teaching out of it for five years now…)Įvery now and then I come across a software tool that Gets It. I’ll have a couple with me at CocoaHeads/Pittsburgh this week to give away.Įdit2: Gaige Paulsen pointed out that it’s already available in the iBooks / Kindle stores. Be sure to order several for the children. Chris wrangled the tools, and thanks to Susan’s work I’m quite proud of the third edition, the quality of the writing, and the quality of the index (another second edition sore spot). The second edition did not have an editor, and it shows. Speaking of Editing, Susan and Chris Loper from Intelligent English edited the book and maintained the DocBook-based pipeline of tools. It had already been over five years since the second edition, so we decided to go ahead and ship it, and then do a thorough job on the Lion / iOS5 / iCloud stuff in a later edition. Students taking my class at the ranch get to be guinea pigs a sneak peek of the Lion-related material. I dropped a number of chapters (I’m pretty sure folks know about version control systems these days), and a number were added (DTrace and GCD anyone?), with pretty much everything edited and improved (bye-bye Shark :-( Hello Instruments :-) ), covering stuff through 10.6 / iOS 4. This book is a massive overhaul of the second edition.
Everything on the internet is improved by adding a cat. WOOOO! You can see Vikki posing with the new edition. It’s been a while in the making, but Advanced Mac OS X Programming 3 / The Big Nerd Ranch Guide has finally started trickling out to folks.
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