My first 48 hours with the new Intel CoreDuo Mac mini have unfortunately been somewhat disappointing. Don’t get me wrong—The mini itself is great, I love Front Row, and the fact that I’ve got an optical audio out built-in instead of an Edirol box hanging off the side of the mini is amazing. (BTW, if […]
Here, I was, all ready to do a clever video tutorial on how to use Handbrake to rip video from your DVDs to your 5G iPod (aka, iPod with video), and I see there’s a clever app called iSquint that is optimized for doing just that. Except— wait. No it isn’t. You’d have to decrypt and rip the video to your hard drive first. And then, of course, there’s getting all that meta–data into the file… Hmmm…. seems like there’s call for an all-encompassing tutorial after all.
Made it through the Spiderworks book on C just fine. Made it halfway through the Apple book, The Objective-C Programming Language… and then… my eyes started to glaze over.
I think the real reason is, I need practical experience with this stuff—the C book had exercises I could do, and most of the chapters […]
I’ve been meaning to learn Mac programming with Cocoa for two years now, and finally am getting off my ass. Since the first of the year, I’ve gone through Spiderworks’ “Learn C on the Macintosh” eBook. Just finished that last night, now I’m starting Apple’s PDF doc “The Objective-C Programming Language,” and then after than […]
Cocoa 101: Object-Oriented Programming for the Masses, Part 1 and Part 2. Nice scratching the surface of the way Cocoa’s classes think, and clearer that some of the books I have in its explanations of same.
Never mind— I’m still confused.
See, this is why I figure it’ll take at least three books, all by different authors, to teach me programming— because none of them make sense on their own.
Turns out Ask MetaFilter is an excellent resource for a lot of questions. For my reference, my questions:
Silly me— all this time, I thought the Casio PT-7 only came in a cream color, but this fellow has on on eBay, and it’s black. Very cool.
