IdolHands.com :: Days in the Life of an Alpha Geek
The lines between application development and web development continue to blur, but for now at least there's plenty of demand for both. This topic presents articles of interest to application developers, in particular those who use Mac OS X as their development environment.
I had the good fortune to be sent off to Apple's Worldwide Developers Conference (WWDC). There are a lot of specifics that I can't discuss because of the NDA with Apple, but trust me that, Leopard will bring some amazing things.
Okay, so my post-WWDC desktop-application-envy got the better of me. Since I learn best with a project in my head, my laptop at hand, and a book at my side, I'm now working my way through a series of Cocoa and Objective-C books.
I'm a 13-year veteran of web development (currently doing WebO) but a complete newcomer to Cocoa. Since WWDC I've been tackling learning Objective-C. I learn best by doing, so I thought up a little app that I could write while learning the language.
As of 12:45 this morning, there are 108 sessions available for viewing, with more sections labelled "Coming Soon". Each session seems to contain an eBook of slides and a video of the presentation itself.
