Its the end of the crunch and I feel just a bit unsatisfied. I think, perhaps, I have finally outgrown Aaron’s book to some degree and its time to dig into specific technologies in a more substantial way. I have purchase three ebooks from The Pragmatic Programmer: Core Animation for Mac OS X, Interface Oriented […]
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Chapters 26-30 of Cocoa Programming for Mac OS X, 3rd Edition revealed unto me three truths! Signing Amazon requests is hard Chapter 28 is pretty much defunct as Amazon now requires that all REST requests be signed with a secret, private ID. I thought, “Aha, a challenge!” and set to work building a protocol for […]
The day’s lessons were much more of a refresher course than anything else. There were no standout challenges, nor any revelatory discoveries. But, a few things did strike me. The learning process, thus far I need to be careful about waiting too long between the studies and the related blog. The things that were fresh […]
This was the day I started to feel my energy wane a little. Maybe it was the rain and the bitter cold we experienced yesterday, but it was definitely more difficult than usual to focus on studies. However, perseverance paid off and I did successfully complete the five chapters (16-20). As is always the case […]
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 […]