Blessed are the programmers because they make cool stuff for our Macs to run. OSnews.com takes a look at the newest book for developers from Big Nerd Ranch called 'Advanced Mac OS X Programming,' ...

OS vendor Cyanogen Inc., on Monday announced an open source Modular OS program that can allow smartphone manufacturers to put bits and pieces of custom Cyanogen builds into "Mods" on stock Android or ...

I'm going to be in the market for a few thick computer books in March, but I thought that I'd ask this question now and bookmark it for later.<P>I'm looking for comprehensive texts on the following ...

Apple today announced a new programming language native to both OS X and iOS: Swift. Speaking at Apple’s annual developer conference, software engineering VP Craig Federighi called the new language ...

In the last lesson, you encountered the concept of a Real-Time Operating System (RTOS), and you worked out a manual procedure of switching the context from one thread to another. In this lesson, ...

After introducing interrupts and the foreground/background architecture, I am finally ready to tackle the concept of a Real-Time Operating System (RTOS). In this first lesson on RTOS (commonly ...

Google’s Fuchsia OS has support for Swift. Reuters/Stephen Lam Google’s mysterious in-development operating system, called Fuchsia, is getting support for Apple’s Swift programming language. However, ...

Back in June, at WWDC, Apple announced the next major version of its OS for Macs, Yosemite (OS X 10.10). Though the official release of Yosemite is slated for “this fall,” the company is breaking from ...