I’m in the middle of reading Why’s (Poignant) Guide to Ruby. It’s hilarious. But I think only those with a certain sense of humor will appreciate it. At any rate, it does a good job of introducing Ruby and I’m thoroughly enjoying myself. I’ll be writing more about Ruby and Rails as I continue on with my Blank Slate redesign project.
In other news, I spent some time on Monday hacking away at the examples in Aaron Hillegass’s Cocoa Programming for Mac OS X and I made a fair amount of progress. (Enough, in fact, that I was able to successfully complete three of the end-of-chapter challenges, which was a significant step forward.) Because Beyond (my genealogy software) will need some custom controls, I’m going to write smaller, simpler apps first, to get the hang of things. Coding for Cocoa has been harder to learn than any other language so far (though I can’t remember what it was like to learn C originally — too many years ago :)), but right now I’m coming up over the first bump and can see part of the view in front of me. It’s a pretty cool sight. :)
[tags]Ruby, Ruby on Rails, Objective-C, Cocoa, Mac, OS X[/tags]
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