Greg Aker

Wanna be Cocoa Programmer

Over the past couple of weeks, I’ve been reading a book on Cocoa Programming.  I really feel how I did a year and a half ago when I was starting with PHP.  Google, find code and tweak suit to my needs.  However, I was able to sit down last weekend and write a really simple app.

I really don’t like “Hello World” applications in any language, and I want to do something useful that I get results from.  I know that we can use all of these with Terminal, as we should, and that they are buried somewhere in OS X Utilities, but I decided to write this app anyway.

So here’s a little app that will work in OS X 10.6, it will do ping, traceroute, dig and whois lookups.  I know that pressing enter after you enter the URL doesn’t work yet, and I have no error handling, but I’m proud for a night or two of work.

If it works for you, woot!  If not, sorry, I probably can’t fix it yet. 

dns_tools.0.1.tar.gz (right-click & save as to download)