Category Archives: gnustep

[objc retain]; continues apace

Posted on 2022-01-27 by Graham

I just finished recording episode 35 of [objc retain]; the stream on Objective-C programming with Free Software that I co-host with Steven Baker. It is available on Twitch and you can subscribe there to get notified about new episodes. It … Continue reading →

Posted in FLOSS, freesoftware, gnustep, objc | Leave a comment

In which I misunderstood Objective-C

Posted on 2021-09-19 by Graham

I was having a think about this short history of Objective-C, and it occurred to me that perhaps I had been thinking about ObjC wrong. Now, I realise that by thinking about ObjC at all I mark myself out as … Continue reading →

Posted in cocoa, design, freesoftware, gnustep, nextstep, objc | Tagged | 1 Comment

[objc retain] stream

Posted on 2021-02-03 by Graham

Starting next week: [objc retain]; in which Steven Baker and I live-code Objective-C on a modern free software platform. Wednesday, February 10th, 1900UTC. More info at objc-retain.com.

Posted in gnustep, objc | Leave a comment

GNUstep development on LIVEstep

Posted on 2021-01-20 by Graham

LIVEstep is a GNUstep desktop on a FreeBSD live CD, and it comes with the GNUstep developer tools including ProjectCenter. This video is a “Hello, World” walkthrough using ProjectCenter on LIVEstep. PC is much more influenced by the NeXT Project … Continue reading →

Posted in FLOSS, gnustep | Leave a comment

GNUstep is more important now than ever

Posted on 2017-11-26 by Graham

In creating a pull request for GNUstep-base, the Free Software implementation of the Foundation library from Objective-C, I realised that if there was ever a time for GNUstep, now is it. Although GNUstep may have been envisaged as an official … Continue reading →

Posted in gnustep | Leave a comment

In which GNUstep confuses and ultimately disappoints

Posted on 2017-09-01 by Graham

I’m not the most hardcore of GNUstep people, but I’m certainly somewhat invested. I’ve been building apps, lurking in lists, and contributing code on and off for around 13 years, including a job working with a few of the maintainers. … Continue reading →

Posted in architecture of sorts, gnustep, qt | 1 Comment

New project: the GNUstep developer guide

Posted on 2017-01-14 by Graham

I discovered by searching the interwebs that a significant number of people who try out GNUstep get stuck at the “I wanted to do Objective-C on my Linux so I installed GNUstep…now what?” stage. There are some tutorials for GNUstep … Continue reading →

Posted in gnustep | Leave a comment

The problem with not-Apple

Posted on 2017-01-03 by Graham

I’ve read a few articles over the last week or so that point to the Mac having lost its shine among developers. There was a time when the first things you did when you wanted to be a developer on … Continue reading →

Posted in GNU, gnustep, Mac | Leave a comment

Updating my ObjC web app on git push

Posted on 2013-11-05 by Graham

I look at SignUp.woa running on my Ubuntu server, and it looks like this. That title text doesn’t quite look right. $ open -a TextWrangler Main.wo/Main.html $ make $ make check $ git add -A $ git commit -m “Use … Continue reading →

Posted in gnustep, tool-support, UNIX, WebObjects | Leave a comment

Automated tests with the GNUstep test framework

Posted on 2013-11-04 by Graham

Setup Of course, it’d be rude not to use a temperature converter as the sample project in a testing blog post. The only permitted alternative is a flawed bank account model. I’ll create a folder for my project, then inside … Continue reading →

Posted in gnustep, TDD, tool-support | Leave a comment