logomancer | (no subject) (Reply)

Something else I've been doing recently is something the local MUG is doing this year. It's called the Cocoa Code Kitchens. This semester I'm going to Torg every Sunday to learn about Cocoa, then next semester I and the others in the group are going to do a project in Cocoa to present to the 2006 WWDC.

Now, those of you who have known me might be surprised by this, as I've criticized Apple for years. And I still do -- I think they're nothing more than a megacorp with an ass-kicking marketing department and a better industrial design team than most tech companies (which isn't hard, considering most tech companies suck at industrial design). But I've been trying to find a way to distinguish myself from the imperial fucktons of software engineers in this area, and I think this might help. Somebody's gotta be looking for Mac programmers around here. Besides, it might be fun, and if the project's good enough to impress the people at WWDC, I might get something out of it. Like a Powerbook and a 20" Studio display.

So far, everything's going pretty smoothly, though to be fair we just started on Cocoa data types. Objective-C I can deal with, though I find the two different function call types a bit confusing at times. The Foundation classes are also confusing ("Associative arrays? Oh, you mean dictionaries."). But hopefully I can figure it out before we do anything serious.

Oh, also -- I don't have a Mac. If there is anyone who can loan me one with OS X and development tools for a bit next semester, let me know. Thanks.