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Cocoa Crunch (Day 3)

I’m getting faster Every day around lunch it feels almost impossible to finish all five chapters for the day, yet every day I finish earlier and earlier. I feel my confidence returning rapidly and having such a short period of time between lessons makes it easier to understand relationships between concepts, and to see how [...]

Cocoa Crunch (Day 2)

Continuing with a refresher crash-course in Cocoa, courtesy of Aaron Hillegass’ “Cocoa Programming for Mac OS X, 3rd Edition.” Five chapters a day for one week; so far, I’m on schedule. Interface Builder is confusing This came to light while working on Chapter 6, “The NSTableView and Its Datasource”. Understanding where the wiring for different [...]

Cocoa Crunch (Day 1)

Cocoa Programming for Mac OS X: five chapters a day, for one week It would be fair to say I’ve gotten a wee-bit rusty with my Objective-C / Cocoa skills since being laid off last summer. Life, as it so often does, simply interceded for a while and demanded a good portion of my attention. [...]