Apple Documentation

While Apple’s Technical Publications (TechPubs) group spits out over 10,000 pages of documentation on everything ranging from Mac and iPhone development to managing OS X Server, here are the docs we think every Mac developer should take a peek at:

Apple Human Interface Guidelines (better known as “The HIG”) http://developer.apple.com/documentation/UserExperience/Conceptual/AppleHIGuidelines/OSXHIGuidelines.pdf

Application Kit Framework Reference http://developer.apple.com/documentation/Cocoa/Reference/ApplicationKit/ObjC_classic/AppKitObjC.pdf

Cocoa Fundamentals Guide http://developer.apple.com/documentation/Cocoa/Conceptual/CocoaFundamentals/CocoaFundamentals.pdf

Core Data Programming Guide http://developer.apple.com/documentation/Cocoa/Conceptual/CoreData/CoreData.pdf

Foundation Framework Reference http://developer.apple.com/documentation/Cocoa/Reference/Foundation/ObjC_classic/FoundationObjC.pdf

Garbage Collection Programming Guide http://developer.apple.com/documentation/Cocoa/Conceptual/GarbageCollection/GarbageCollection.pdf

Interface Builder User Guide http://developer.apple.com/documentation/DeveloperTools/Conceptual/IB_UserGuide/IB_UserGuide.pdf

Key-Value Coding Programming Guide http://developer.apple.com/documentation/Cocoa/Conceptual/KeyValueCoding/KeyValueCoding.pdf

Object-Oriented Programming with Objective-C http://developer.apple.com/documentation/Cocoa/Conceptual/OOP_ObjC/OOP_ObjC.pdf

The Objective-C 2.0 Programming Lanuguage http://developer.apple.com/documentation/Cocoa/Conceptual/ObjectiveC/ObjC.pdf

Reference Library http://developer.apple.com/referencelibrary/

Xcode Overview http://developer.apple.com/documentation/DeveloperTools/Conceptual/Xcode_Overview/Contents/Resources/en.lproj/Xcode_Overview.pdf

Xcode Project Management Guide http://developer.apple.com/documentation/DeveloperTools/Conceptual/XcodeProjectManagement/Xcode_Project_Management.pdf

Xcode Workspace Guide http://developer.apple.com/documentation/DeveloperTools/Conceptual/XcodeWorkspace/Xcode_Workspace.pdf