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• iPhone Application Programming Guide
• Interface Builder Guide
• Objective-C guide
• Memory Management Guide

Cocoa docs that are useful to read for iPhone developers:

• Cocoa Event-Handling Guide
• Cocoa Fundamentals Guide

• Here it is on Google video

Idiyappam:

Wash and soak 2 cups of parboiled rice for 3 to 4 hours and grind fine. Add required salt. Heat 1 tbsp of oil in a kadai, add a cup of water and stir in the batter and keep stirring to make a homogeneous mass. Ensure the bottom does not burn. Remove from fire. While still hot, take fistfuls of the cooked dough and make balls. Dip your hand in cold water and do it to stand the heat. Stuff the balls one by one into a murukku press with omapodi plate (fine holed one) and press into idiappam onto a greased idli plate. Steam the idiyappams for about 10 minutes in the pressure cooker without the weight. The steamed idiyappams can be removed piece by piece for serving. Repeat with remaining dough.

Vadakari:

For Vadai:

Soak 60 ml each of Toor dal and Channa dal with 2 red chillies for an hour. Drain and grind with 2 green chillies, a pinch of aniseed (saunf- optional) and required salt. The ground mixture should be coarse and NOT watery. Add one finely chopped onion and chopped curry leaves and coriander leaves and mix well. Pour the mixture into a greased plate or idli plate and steam for 10 to 15 minutes. Cool and cut into pieces.

For Gravy:

onions- 3 medium- chop fine
tomato- 5 medium- crush
ginger garlic paste- 1 tsp
grated coconut- 1 cup
cardamom-1
clove-1
turmeric powder- 1 spoon
salt
oil

Grind the coconut with cardamom and clove and extract milk.
Heat 3 spoons of oil in a pan, add ginger garlic paste and onion and saute. Add the tomato and saute further. When it is cooked and oil floats, add the coconut milk, turmeric powder, required salt and 2 cups of water. When the gravy thickens slightly, add the vada pieces and cook for some more time.

• Inside application bundles (part 1, part 2)
• How to read from a plist file: Cocoa-dev forum

How to (programmatic) find the name of the executable in a bundle:

       //l_AppBundleDir is a string that holds the path of to the Bundle
    NSBundle *l_Bundle = [NSBundle bundleWithPath:l_AppBundleDir];
    NSString *l_Executable = [l_Bundle executablePath];

    NSLog(@”Executable file exists at %@\n”,l_Executable);

Another interesting NSBundle method -infoDictionary returns a dictionary from the bundle’s Info.plist file. It returns a empty dictionary if no plist file is found.

• Mach-o file format (ppt presentation)

Ingredients:

Raw rice- 2 cups
Green chillies- 6
jeera or ajwain- 1 tsp
salt to taste
Oil for smearing

Method:

Wash and soak rice for a couple of hours. Grind fine with salt and chillies and leave overnight to sour a little. Add jeera or ajwain and mix well.

Smear oil lightly on thali vadam plates and lightly spread batter on each plate. Place the stand in a cooker or steamer and steam for two minutes. Remove stand from cooker and remove the vadams on to a plate and dry in sun. Repeat until all the batter is done. Dry well and store tight in canisters. This can be either microwaved or deep fried.

• An introduction to GCC
• How OS X executes applications
• Universal (FAT) Binaries
• Whitepaper on MachO format

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