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Resources for developers new to the Mac platform:

• Depending on what you‘re touching, you may not need to modify UI code or write Objective C at all in which case you don’t really need any of this.
• Cocoa Programming for Mac OS X by Aaron Hillegass is a great starter book on Cocoa programming, working through the examples will get you pretty far in terms of understanding the fundamentals of Cocoa.
• From C++ to Objective-C by Pierre Chatelier is a free online book introducing Objective C.
• Objective-C Development in Chrome by krstnmnlsn is a collection of basic information about working with Objective C in Chrome along with pitfalls to avoid.
• Intro to Chrome Mac Development is a shorter summary of things specific to Chrome + Mac, with links to useful parts of the code.

More in-depth stuff:

• Mac OS X Internals by Amit Singh is the defacto reference for low level OS X programming topics.
• Advanced Mac OS X Programming by Mark Dalrymple and Aaron Hillegass .

Stuff you should read on this site:

• Mac debugging tips - a page with details pertaining to debugging Chrome on Mac.