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Good Mac OS X reading material

Apart from Apple's Dev site can anyone give me some recommendations on books or articles regarding OSX. I am thirsty for knowledge.

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@lanceomni Published 2008-12-11
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Hardware, Systems & Dev
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8,796 historical reads · 4 curated field notes (from 8 dispatches) · 2008-12-11 – 2009-04-17
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@lanceomni (4)@nfoav8or@Puttabong@zuz242@erick2red

Apart from Apple's Dev site can anyone give me some recommendations on books or articles regarding OSX. I am thirsty for knowledge.

Author Updates & Technical Revisions

Follow-up dispatches by @lanceomni

Author Update #1 @lanceomni 2008-12-11

Ill take a peak at this one too. Ive dabbled with php, ajax, sql and other web related scripting languages even some Basic for programming microcontrollers but this might be over my head. Ill check it out though. Thank You

Synthesized Community Field Notes

4 technical responses curated from 8 original dispatches

Field Note #1 @nfoav8or 2008-12-11

search.barnesa ndnoble.com/Big-Book-of-Apple-Hacks/Chris-Seibold/e/9780596529826/?itm=1

I took my mac to barnes and noble and sat down and read it for a while and found it pretty helpful. its 627 pages and there's lots of helpful coding as well.

The Synopsis from the site is as follows:

Bigger in size, longer in length, broader in scope, and even more useful than our original Mac OS X Hacks, the new Big Book of Apple Hacks offers a grab bag of tips, tricks and hacks to get the most out of Mac OS X Leopard, as well as the new line of iPods, iPhone, and Apple TV. With 125 entirely new hacks presented in step-by-step…
Field Note #3 @zuz242 2008-12-12

an interesting piece of information, but not as hardcopy, can be found here:
pcwiz computer.com/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=83&Itemid=45
these flowcharts demonstrated the concept of "kext" to me quite well

Sources & Contributor Provenance (5 credited usernames · Thread #1718)
UsernameDossier ContributionDispatchesActive Window
@lanceomniPrimary Author42008-12-11 → 2008-12-12
@nfoav8orContributor12008-12-11
@PuttabongContributor12008-12-11
@zuz242Contributor12008-12-12
@erick2redContributor12009-04-17