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Text editor development has been stagnant for several years. It’s time for developers to take the text editing experience forward into the future! NOTE: This is beta software and doesn’t support some features like TextMate project files. It works only with self-contained directories on disk. NOTE: Use MacVim snapshot 55...

Sick and tired of MacPorts and Fink taking an age to install UNIX packages on your Mac OS X box? Want to install UNIX packages fast, and securely without using sudo? In this screencast we'll show you how with Homebrew! Links Homebrew Homepage What you'll learn How to install Homebrew...

In the second half of our 2 part series on Zsh, we look at globbing and using Zsh's qualifiers. This can be combined with the completion from episode 16 for some super powerful shell bliss.

Zsh is a great alternative to Bash and other Unix shells. It has programmable completion, paging, and many other great features. We'll take a good look at paging and the completion that Zsh offers in this episode and explore more in the next episode. As mentioned in the episode, the...

The Bash command prompt can be fairly dull by default. In this episode we add some color to help differentiate between files, executables, symlinks, and directories. We'll also change the format of the command prompt with the current time and better formatting.

One of the best changes I've ever made to my computing work flow is swapping my CAPS and CTRL keys. It is much easier on your pinky to hit the CAPS key instead of the standard mapping for CTRL and the CTRL key is used exponentially more than CAPS. In...

Objective-C is the programming language for writing native iPhone and Mac applications. It's also the language that Apple uses to build their own applications and frameworks. So, if you know Objective-C, you have a lot of power at your fingertips. But if you're new to C or object-oriented programming, then Objective-C can seem a little awkward at first. These screencasts by Bill Dudney, an experienced Objective-C programmer, will help you quickly get up to speed on Objective-C 2.0 basics.

by Dan Benjamin, System Developer of A List Apart.Bonus PDF by Casimir Saternos. This screencast is for you if you’ve never used the Unix command line, or are learning it for the first time. (If you have, skip ahead to Advanced Command Line). Navigating a text-based terminal can be intimidating...

by Alex Vollmer and Geoffrey Grosenbach MacRuby takes the “almost” out of “almost a desktop experience.” With MacRuby, you can write real Mac OS X desktop applications with Ruby. MacRuby is a Ruby interpreter built by Apple on top of Objective-C. Unlike other scripting interfaces to the Cocoa frameworks, MacRuby...

h3. XCode 4 *NEW:* Mike Clark has released free XCode 4 Bonus Tracks. If you're using XCode 4, you'll want these. You might always want to take a look at the new XCode 4 Keyboard Shortcuts poster. h3. XCode 3 Please note that the XCode 3 screencast is no longer for sale. Xcode is the development environment used to create iPhone and Mac applications. There's a lot you can do with Xcode, and it's easy to get distracted by all the knobs and levers. But you're using Xcode for one simple reason: You want to build iPhone or Mac applications as quickly as possible. *Whether you're a new iPhone developer seeing Xcode for the first time, or wish you were more familiar with the shortcuts, these screencasts will make you a more productive (and happier!) Xcode programmer.*