Tips for submitting software to the Mac App Store This looks like a good set of instructions and tips for developers who have used some other selling mechanism previously but would like to begin using the App Store. With Aquatic Prime apparently incompatible with Mac OS X 10.7 ("Lion"), I may need to find an alternative...

Safari HTML5 Audio and Video Guide: About HTML5 Audio and Video. This is a good reference with lots of sample code for using HTML5 audio and video. The samples cover a wide range of possible custom applications. Though it's specific to WebKit/Safari, many of the CSS styles used for custom appearance are now supported by Firebox and, of course, Chrome (which is a WebKit browser like Safari).

Idle Time. Lots of interesting topics here, including Cocoa/Cocoa Touch. Hosey has released a number of very useful apps as Cocoa demos and/or developer tools.

Cocoa with Love: Drawing gloss gradients in CoreGraphics. This is but one of many tutorials and source code provided by Matt Gallagher on his site, CocoaWithLove.com.

Mac Stuff. This site's author shares a lot of great AppleScript code, with explanations of how they work. Pointers to AppleScript resources as well. He also covers shell scripts and Automator.

Getting Started With Cocoa Scripting . From the developer who's written what many consider to be the best book on AppleScript, AppleScript: The Definitive Guide, this is an excellent tutorial on using AppleScript in Cocoa applications. This tutorial by Matt Neuberg explains the Scripting Bridge Apple introduced in Mac OS X 10.5 while building a sample application. The sample app is also available for download.

Apple Help Screencast Here's a 2008 screencast from developer Matt Neuberg explaining how to make an Apple Help bundle for your app. He walks you through every step, identifying the problems developers typically have and the secrets to their solution.

CocoaLab. This site has loads of tutorials and other articles on Cocoa-programming topics. It also goes into specifics on issues such as software licensing and code signing. Recommends Potion Store for creating a web store to sell software.

Mac | I Love Code. This is a terrific collection of tutorials on software development, covering various languages and platforms including Mac OS X (Cocoa), HTML/CSS, JavaScript, PHP, and iPhone. Just the things I'm interested in! The tutorials are contributed by some very smart developers from across the world.

Cocoa Bindings Examples and Hints

This page has lots of great explanations of various aspects of bindings and key-value observing in writing Cocoa apps, but what makes it really special is that the author has provided a slew of example applications as well. You can download the apps with the source code.

AppleScript: Sub-Routines

I just discovered this amazing collection of AppleScript templates Apple has provided for building AppleScript apps in Leopard. I can't wait to find the time to explore all of these, which cover such topics as:

1. Math routines
2. HTML routines
3. Sorging routines
4. Text manipulation
5. Working with lists
6. Text encoding/decoding
7. Writing to files
8. Finder droplets

Thank you, Apple!

Bagelturf - Resources And Articles For Cocoa Programmers I stumbled upon this Cocoa blog yesterday, drawn by an article on enabling/disabling controls. Turns out the owner has a really useful series of tutorials here, complete with readable text and code, plus downloadable xCode projects. One is a 10-part series on key-value coding that I'll definitely have to check out! Amazing how generous we programmers are as a lot, don't you think? You know this is a good guy when you see his tag line is "Shining out like a shaft of gold when all around is dark." Certainly more inspiring than claiming to be "like a stream of bat's piss," eh?

Mulle kybernetiK: Optimizing Objective-C code From a guy who obviously knows what he's talking about... I just finally made up my mind about his terrific, open-source mkconsole app today and was tooling around his site to see what else I might find. Some of these lessons are old, as the author notes, but there's still a lot of useful learning here for someone of my limited knowledge of the language.

Cocoa® Programming for Mac® OS X: Custom Views > Get a View to Draw Itself This looks like one of the best tutorials I've encountered that covers views, drawings, rects, and the like.

Shell Scripting Primer If you've ever wanted to really take advantage of that powerful Unix workhorse underneath your beautiful Mac's Aqua, here's a good place to get started. In another of its excellent, well designed, well written, and thorough technology guides, Apple provides an introduction to the Bourne shell, regular expressions, awk, and more that's an essential reference on the subject. As always, it's available online in HTML, plus a single PDF version, and in this case there's also a zip file with dozens of example scripts, most of them referenced in the guide.

script.aculo.us Slider Demos and Example Code Damn! I wish these demos had been available when I was building parts of Mars a year ago. But I could find nothing but the demos on the Script.aculo.us wiki site, which didn't cover things like: Scrollwheel activation, use as a scrollbar... the two things I most needed. Oh well... at least they're here now if I need them again!

Cocoa Samurai: F-Script : Part I - Introduction I missed this when it came out a couple of months ago... but today's release of a new update to F-Script had me wandering through the F-Script news archive, and... I've been fooling around with F-Script for awhile now, spurred on by Apple's endorsement of its amazing ability to let Cocoa developers peek under the hood of each other's apps, and even inject some of their own code to test new ideas. But I haven't really learned the F-Script language, which I gather is a simplified version of Cocoa itself, so this tutorial should come in handy.

Technical Note TN2083: Daemons and Agents I'm putting this link in the Resources library, because it's such a great overview of this whole topic. The note explains how daemons and agents interoperate in Mac OS X, and how applications can take advantage of and avoid problems with them. The note includes detailed discussions of login items, startup items, inetd, launchd, mach_init agent, and more.

QuartzCompositions.com the central source for Quartz Composer :: wiki I had found QuartzCompositions.com to be an excellent source for cool Quartz Compositions, but now it's evolved to support a wiki that appears to have an excellent, comprehensive catalog of information on using Quartz Composer. Everything from coding custom patches and using JavaScript in a Quartz Composition to lessons on optimizing your composition are here. Definitely a must-bookmark if you're interested in Quartz Composing.

Prototype Javascript Library: Easing the development of dynamic web applications Ah, now this is more like it! No more having to scrounge around the web for documentation, examples, and tutorials on Prototype.js, the Ajax-wise JavaScript library that's taken the web developer world by storm over the last year and a half. Now, thanks to a lot of dedicated developers working on the project, the library finally has its own website that's more than just a billboard page. Besides being able to download the library, the new site provides a blog, a section on tips and tutorials, and a full set of API documentation! Can't wait to step inside and look around.