Ebook: Programming Mac OS X: A Guide for Unix Developers

Written for software developers with a Unix background, this guide describes the systems architecture and components of OS X, its programs and services, and Cocoa's frameworks and design patterns, while also providing instruction for navigating the system, using Apple's free development tools, and writing GUIs for Unix command- line tools. O'Malley is a software engineer at the University of Michigan's Artificial Intelligence Laboratory.