Recommend Developer Publications

10 Mar 2003

You can get a complete listing of all Apple technical publication from the Apple developer web site. I can personally recommend the following documents.

Books

• Open Transport Advanced Client Programming
• Inside Macintosh: Networking with Open Transport
• Mac OS Runtime Architectures

Technotes

• Technote 2030 GDB for MacsBug Veterans
• Technote 2028 Threading Architectures
• Technote 2006 MP-Safe Routines
• Technote 1192 ATA Interface Modules
• Technote 1189 The Monster Disk Driver Technote
• Technote 1184 FCBs, Now and Forever
• Technote 1176 Mac OS 9 [PPC Toolbox updates]
• Technote 1173 Understanding Open Transport Asset Tracking
• Technote 1150 HFS Plus Volume Format
• Technote 1145 Living in a Dynamic TCP/IP Environment
• Technote 1137 Disabling Interrupts on Traditional Mac OS
• Technote 1136 MicroBug: The ROM Debugger [update]
• Technote 1128 Understanding Open Transport Memory Management
• Technote 1120 Opening Resource Files Twice Considered Hard?
• Technote 1119 Serial Port Apocrypha
• Technote 1117 Open Transport STREAMS FAQ
• Technote 1104 Interrupt-Safe Routines
• Technote 1094 Virtual Memory Application Compatibility
• Technote 1089 HFS Elucidations Revisited [update]
• Technote 1067 Traditional Device Drivers: Sync or Swim
• -Technote 1063 Inside Macintosh: Processes: Time Manager Addenda [update]
• Technote 1033 Interrupts in Need of (a Good) Time
• -Technote IM 02 Inside Macintosh: Memory Errata [update]
• Technote DV 12 Our Checksum Bounced [update]
• Technote FL 515 File Manager File Handling Q&As [update]
• Technote FL 16 File Manager Performance and Caching [update]

Q&As

Unclassified (New Numbering Scheme)

• QA 1234 Accessing HTTPS Proxy Settings
• QA 1173 Text Encodings in VFS
• QA 1235 Converting to Precomposed Unicode
• QA 1223 File Manager Text Encodings
• QA 1184 Signals and Threads
• QA 1181 Process Carbon Events Not Delivered in 10.2
• QA 1180 Where is dlopen?
• QA 1176 Getting a Packet Trace
• QA 1123 Getting List of All Processes on Mac OS X
• QA 1122 MPRemoteCall Contexts
• QA 1113 The "/.vol" directory and "volfs"
• QA 1078 Getting the Computer and User Name
• QA 1063 Avoiding Kernel Event Conflicts
• QA 1061 RunApplicationEvenLoop and Thread Manager
• QA 1028 ICLaunchURL, "file:///" URLs and Mac OS X

Networking

• -NW 67 Receiving UDP Broadcasts While Sending from a Secondary Address
• -NW 64 Open Transport Versions
• -NW 63 Raw IP and Open Transport 2.5.x
• -NW 62 TCP/IP Option Sizes
• -NW 61 Accessing DHCP Options
• -NW 58 fBroadCastAddr Always Zero
• -NW 56 Accessing the ARA/PPP Password [update]
• -NW 53 Receiving UDP Broadcasts
• -NW 52 OTScheduleDeferredTask When Task Running
• -NW 48 68K Open Transport Code on Power Macintoshes
• -NW 47 Changing the TCP Window Size
• -NW 42 T_DATA_REQ vs M_DATA TPI Message Blocks
• -NW 40 Open Transport's Limited Compatibility with 680x0
• -NW 39 AddrToName
• -NW 37 OTScheduleSystemTask Cleanup
• -NW 36 Calling CloseOpenTransport When Writing an Application
• -NW 35 Mapping OT Error Numbers to Their Names
• -NW 34 Undefined Routines in Open Transport Libraries
• -NW 33 Undefined Routines with PPCLink
• -NW 32 Getting Started with Network Programming
• -NW 26 Numerous Small Packet Exchanges Result in Poor TCP Performance [update]
• -NW 23 PSetSelfSend in Classic AppleTalk vs Open Transport AppleTalk
• -NW 19 Using Open Transport with CFM-68K
• NW 18 Open Transport Libraries
• -NW 09 Determining if a Volume is a Network Volume [update]

Devices

• DV 45 Coordinating Deferred Tasks and Secondary Interrupts
• DV 44 PrepareMemoryForIO Options
• DV 43 InterfaceLib and Native Drivers
• -DV 40 DriverServicesLib Queue Routines
• DV 39 Serial API Choice
• -DV 38 PC Card 3.x Custom Actions
• -DV 36 MemAllocatePhysicallyContiguous
• -DV 35 Native Drivers ('ndrv's) and dNeedTime
• -DV 34 Secondary Interupts on the Page Fault Path
• -DV 33 PrepareMemoryForIO in the NewWorld
• -DV 32 PrepareMemoryForIO and Execution Levels
• -DV 30 Serial (Built-In)
• -DV 28 Serial Flow Control Bug
• -DV 27 Device Driver Flags
• -DV 26 Calling ataManager on a Power Macintosh [update]
• -DV 07 Is the New SCSI Manager 4.3 Emulated? [update]

Memory

• -ME 08 Temporary Memory
• -ME 07 Finding the VM Backing Store

Files

• -FL 10 Accessing File Control Blocks [update]
• -FL 07 PBXGetVolInfo Glue [update]

Hardware

• -HW 01 Determining if a PCI Bus Exists [update]

Overview

• OV 03 Detecting Classic and Carbon X Environments

OS Utilities

• -OPS 22 Notification Manager Reinitialized During Boot [update]
• -OPS 19 Making Data Executable
• -OPS 16 System Error 29

Processes

• PS 06 Yielding Time Without Getting Events

Toolbox

• -TB 66 CloseDialog and 'ictb's
• -TB 64 Progress Indicators and SetControl32BitValue

Sample Code

Various

• MoreIsBetter
• ProcDoggie
• ROMResourceDump
• CallMachOFramework
• MPFileCopy

Security

• MoreAuthSample

Drivers

• IOPrintSuperClasses
• BasicDiskImage
• DriverGestaltExplorer
• RAMDisk
• AsyncDriverSample
• TradDriverLoaderLib

Interapplication Communication

• MoreOSL
• PPCToolboxKeychain
• SnapshotSample

Networking

• mDNSPosix (part of the Darwin Rendezvous project)
• ARPSample
• DumpARPCache
• DumpNetworkSetup
• GetSetOptions
• ListMania
• MoreAutoPush
• MoreNetworkSetup
• MoreSCF
• NoCopyReceives
• OTClassicContext
• OTCodeResource
• OTDumpInternetStatus
• OTDumpPortRegistry
• OTEndpointInfo
• OTFindSerialPorts
• OTLookupNameTest
• OTMP
• OTPingSample
• OTSimpleDownloadHTTP
• OTSimpleServerHTTP
• OTStreamDumper
• OTStreamLogViewer
• OTTraceRouteSample
• StreamNOP
• TPIFile
• TransferProvider
• VMSify

Cocoa

• SonOfSillyBalls
• SimpleThreads
• TrivialThreads