Running Mac OS X Panther - Softcover

Davidson, James Duncan

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0596005008 ISBN 13: 9780596005009

Publisher: O′Reilly, 2004

Synopsis

Calling Mac OS X "the first real operating system for the 21st century," a Portland, OR-based freelance software developer who contributes to Mac OS X Hacks , traces the development of Apple Computer's latest competitor to Microsoft Windows and introduces Panther's basic and advanced features. Appendices include installation information and resources (including "rumor" Web sites with user comments). Annotation ©2004 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)

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About the Author

James Duncan Davidson is a freelance author, software developer, and consultant focusing on Mac OS X, Java, XML, and open source technologies. He is the author of Learning Cocoa with Objective-C (published by O'Reilly & Associates) and is a frequent contributor to the O'Reilly Network online website as well as publisher of his own website, x180 (http://www.x180.net), where he keeps his popular weblog. Duncan was the creator of Apache Tomcat and Apache Ant and was instrumental in their donation to the Apache Software Foundation by Sun Microsystems . While working at Sun, he authored two versions of the Java Servlet API specification as well as the Java API for XML Processing. Duncan regularly presents at conferences all over the world on topics ranging from open source and collaborative development to programming Java more effectively. He didn't graduate with a Computer Science degree, but sees that as a benefit in helping explain how software works. His educational background is in Architecture (the bricks and mortar kind), the essence of which he applies to every software problem that finds him. He currently resides in San Francisco, California.

Edition details

• Publisher: O′Reilly
• Publication date: 2004
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0596005008
• ISBN 13: 9780596005009
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 328