For an application framework that’s been around for a "long time", there’s precious little information about writing apps with Cocoa...I want to change that.

Yes, there’s Apple’s documentation, ancient StepWise with an article or two every year, and Aaron Hillegass’s excellent Cocoa Programming For Mac OSX book, but…There’s not a thousand Cocoa code snippets sites with people sharing code samples, sharing frameworks, sharing IB palettes, etc…where is this stuff? Does no one in the Cocoa community share this kind of information, or is it just too difficult to create and integrate in the first place?

If I have a question about Java, odds are I’ll find some code samples, or some jar file I can plug in to my app and start using. If I’m trying to do something in (don’t laugh) C#/.NET, odds are I’ll find someone who’s got a dll I could reference from my project, or some source code I can tweak.

Aside from Omni’s framework, and a few others I’ve seen, there just doesn’t seem to be a wealth of these resources.

Shouldn’t there be a Cocoa Commons out there? A decent database abstraction layer? Libraries of custom views/palettes to plug into IB?

What am I missing? In all honesty, the one place I still refuse to look into is the Usenet groups and mailing lists, but I find it hard to believe that I’d find what I’m looking for there.

Mailing lists and forums are great for asking a question, but searching and separating the useable information from the chaff is an exercise in futility. With people constantly quoting previous replies to a thread, and the always helpful "this is the wrong list/forum" posts, it’s difficult to find actual information.

This site is my attempt to kick start this type of community resource that I feel is desperately needed. That being said, I’m puposely using Drupal to keep this from turning into "yet another forum or wiki". The posted articles should be the main attraction, with the comments playing second fiddle. I’m shooting for something along the lines of the usually decent Code Project–how to/tutorial articles with code samples, screenshots, etc...

If you’ve finally solved a particular problem that had stumped you, let the community know what you did to solve it. If you’ve routinely used a particular pattern when creating Cocoa apps, write a brief article about it and let us know. Found a good article elsewhere that you think would get more visibility here? Let us know what you found, and where you found it, and we’ll see if the content author would allow us to include it here.

Anything you can do to add to the dearth of Cocoa resources on the net would be much appreciated.