Today I bought an iPad. Cost: 666 Ominous? Yes. Costly? Yes. Aweomse? Oh yeah. I can’t wait to get it. Not only for development purposes, but just the idea of being able to consume media (even simple books) easily and beautifully. My 27’’ iMac (scarMac) has been amazing to have and use. And I think [...]
Working on learning iPhone programming (Cocoa), Google App Engine (scalable backend web apps), Python (goes with App and traditional server), html, css, jquery. Mastering all of these technologies should give a full toolkit for developing all of the web apps one needs. Dashcode can also be useful for quick webpage production. The idea is that [...]
Objective-C is a fairly straightforward language (main thing is to be aware of memory leaks for inline creation;usage;discard idioms that should be avoided or mitigated with autorelease pools). But there is a little of learning to do with the built in object types. For example NSArray (and mutable version) has to everything be an object. [...]
Well, I got a fully functional web environment going. I figured out how to get Apache and Python to work with each other on ScarMac. So now, I can develop as if I am on my webserver, but just locally. Then I upload to my website. One thing is that the python scripts have to [...]
I just signed up for the Safar Library online-8500 books plus videos for $40 a month. I began watching Douglas Crockford’s videos associated with his Good Parts of JavaScript. Fun stuff. I am really looking forward to going through all of his videos. He said that in 2007 it was the most popular language anywhere. [...]
I have begun to learn TextMate. It is awesome. It allows the quick typing and expansion of snippets as well as more powerful command features. It has code folding and column editing. And a cool method for editing multiple lines from the end. I am also getting into jQuery, its UI library, and flot–a graphical [...]
Installed iWork, moved my main work folder, trying to figure out how to call up a finder window with a single keystroke!, registered mythiclogos.com, installing GeoGebra. Working hard to keep everything clean on my desktop. Resynching iPod touch. Started Apache web server. This was dead simple–just go to system prefs and turn on web sharing. [...]
So today I will attempt to setup/experiment with workflows. In particular, I want to start coding up the design patterns for web pages using jQuery (need to start my webserver on this machine and get going). I also intend to learn TextMate to see if it meets my needs for typing scripts. I also want [...]