This was a bit delayed, but a .dmg file with the contents of the CD that accompanies Step into Xcode is now available from the book’s web site. 

Posted by: Fritz Anderson

One of the things I counted as a loss for CodeWarrior veterans switching to Xcode is speed: The gcc compiler, for good if regrettable reasons, is just not as fast as the highly-optimized compiler built into CodeWarrior.  
 
Events have overtaken me. Reports of compilations on the CoreDuo iMac—which no one would expect to be the fastest of the CD Macs to be introduced this year—have Xcode project builds running much faster than on dual-G5 PowerMacs, comparable to 5-machine build farms and—yes—comparable to PPC CodeWarrior speeds. 
 
You’d expect a hypothetical Intel-compiled CodeWarrior to be faster still, but alas, an Intel-compiled CodeWarrior will be hypothetical forever. 
 
This Intel business may turn out all right. 

Posted by: Fritz Anderson

Step into Xcode has a whole chapter on using bindings to create an application so most of the human-interface work is done by Cocoa. What that chapter doesn't have is information on how to debug bindings—a task that can often be tricky. There is an ADC article on this subject, for which we should all be grateful. 

Posted by: Fritz Anderson

I am convinced that the one influence best-calculated to secure the damnation of every soul in America is the retail-mall parking lot. 

 

1. You: The one backing into your parking space. Yes, you. You are not as good at that as you think you are. More often than not, you slop over into one of the adjacent spaces. Sometimes you make the hat trick. Why are you backing in? To get out faster? What, you don't want to lose seconds when Commissioner Gordon calls? The time you save from not having to back out of your space was more than wiped out by the time you took in the much harder task of backing in.
 

2. Sometimes you manage to crowd or cross one of the side lines without backing in. Consider this: You are expressing more faith than is probably warranted in my ability to park without ripping your fender off.
 

3. Here is a concept: Parking is not an end in itself. The reason you are parking your car in a mall parking lot is so you can get into the mall. If you spend three minutes waiting for a "good" parking space that saves you thirty seconds of walking, you have, in point of fact, lost.
 

4. Listen carefully: Every second of your own time you waste in the parking lot wastes the time of the five other people behind you. You are supposed to care about this.
 

5. Do not follow me as I walk to my parking space. I can evade you by dashing over to the next aisle, and I'll do it. If you honk while I sit in my car (doing business unknown to you, but needful none the less), I will take a nap.
 

6. The arrows on the pavement are there for a reason. They mean that the spaces are canted for angled parking. If you wonder why all the spaces require you to turn through more than a right angle to get into, that is the reason. Also, the aisle between the parking spaces is almost certainly too narrow for two cars to pass. That is why you often find yourself head-on against other cars, with nowhere to go.
 

Posted by: Fritz Anderson