XCode

Learning about the XCode development environment for Mac OS X has been an interesting process.

I currently have XCode Version 3.1.2

There is a lot to learn. Tons of configuration capabilities that give the environment a lot of power...and a lot of complexity.

Coming from the Eclipse/Java world it is clear that we're not in Kansas any more :-)

One thing that I find interesting is the search mechanism in XCode. It is tightly bound to Mac OS X's Spotlight feature. So if you need to search for something it must be on a drive that has been indexed by Spotlight. If it is on a mounted drive you'll want to let Spotlight know about it by using the mdutil utility:

> sudo mdutil -i on /Volumes/<volume_name>