BooksLearning Cocoa with Objective-C, Second Editionfiled under Books
However, the current edition provides useful tutorials and reference for: using Interface Builder; building document-based Cocoa applications; using Cocoa's text handling classes; adding scripting to applications; and localizing an application. Learning Cocoa with Objective-C, Second EditionThe Mac Xcode 2 Bookfiled under Books
Note that this is an in-depth review of the tools, not of the technologies involved in writing Mac software. The Mac Xcode 2 BookThe Best Software Writing I: Selected and Introduced by Joel Spolskyfiled under Books
From the introduction (available here): The software development world desperately needs better writing. If I have to read another 2000 page book about some class library written by 16 separate people in broken ESL, I'm going to flip out. If I see another hardback book about object oriented models written with dense faux-academic pretentiousness, I'm not going to shelve it any more in the Fog Creek library: it's going right in the recycle bin. Stop it, stop it, stop it!The Best Software Writing I: Selected and Introduced by Joel Spolsky [ThinkGeek] Mac OS X Tiger for Unix Geeksfiled under Books
Learning Unix for Mac OS X Tigerfiled under Books
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This 2nd edition of the Apple-approved and -reviewed text is targeted at development on Mac OS X 10.2 Jaguar and is therefore due for an update to include the latest Tiger technologies and Xcode.
A somewhat whimsically-written overview of the Mac Xcode 2 toolset. For example, section titles include "Split-View Editors Are Paneful" and "External Editors Are vi-ing for Your Affection".
A collection of well-written essays on software development, selected and introduced by 
Targeted at those familiar with other Unices, Brian Jepsen and Ernest E. Rothman's book applies your existing knowledge to the specifics of Mac OS X Tiger. Covers Spotlight and HFS+ Metadata, CUPS, X11, and other Mac OS X technologies in Part I; compiling and linking code in Part II; package management (Fink, DarwinPorts) and package creation in Part III; while Part IV is a grab-bag of Mac OS X Server, system utilities, databases, and scripting languages.
Dave Taylor updates O'Reilly's 'Learning Unix for Mac OS X {insert version here}' from Panther to Tiger. Basic introduction to Unix, with some useful references to Tiger-specifics such as accessing Spotlight through the command line (mdfind, mdls).
