An Apple tommorrow keeps the boredom away.

March 6, 2006 on 1:42 pm | In Apple, Coding | No Comments

The MacBook has landed at the office after its rather sluggish progression across the globe (<19MPH seems a little slow in this day an age...man have I been bored waiting!):

Now all the stands in the way of a geeky Mac love in, is for the ever vigilant Nicky to pop the thing into a couriers hands. So tommorrow I shall begin the process of having my high expectations dashed on the rocks of Revision A niggles and coding in the most square bracket heavy language I have seen…

Speaking of coding, after finishing Learning Cocoa with Objective-C (which I’ll now re-read with Mac in hand), I began reading Aaron Hillegass’s Cocoa Programming For Mac OS X 2nd Edition which I have enjoyed so far. Hillegass’s book gives a good background on the OS X conventions from its NextStep origins and gives plenty of topics a brief but working introduction. I like working examples simply because it makes it easier to go and find the appropriate documentation if you’ve got class names, and it’s easier to experiment when you’ve got some working boiler plate code.

As an added bonus, the author’s picture on the back cover gave me a chuckle as now I know what the illegitamate child of Brokeback Mountain and The Three Musketeers would look like: