OK, I'll try it again (lawsuit won, jobs in demand), plus one of those crazed deviants from the edges of society has pointed out that there is MonoDev. Is this goodbye to the 3rd World of objective c? What will I complain about when it works?
Is it to late?
If you want to do a screen capture for a particular application window, you can follow this:-
Switch to the screen that you wan to to do screen capture
Hold down Apple key ⌘ +
Shift + 4 and release all key
Now, You will see the mouse cursor will change to +
Press the space bar once
You will see the mouse cursor change to a camera
Now you can use the camera to select which application window to screen capture
Once finish, you will see a picture file in at your desktop.
That’s the screen capture picture!
And here I thought it was me...
The only thing I am learning is how much I don't know about UNIX.
Practice not saying "In that space ..."
This is not as intuitive as people say. After working in Windows since its first release there are a lot of things I do without even thinking about them. Everyone of them is a discovery or , more often, a painful search. It's not the OS or what it does. It's a computer. It does the same thing the windows systems do. It's simply getting around right now.
I have no doubt that for a new user everything here is intuitive. I have to unlearn a lot of habits. Lots. It's not like its hard but it certainly just increased the time I have to invest.
Just editing this post is painful for me right now. Where the heck is the HOME key? Why does the delete key act like the backspace and where is the delete? Not to mention the fact that I keep trying to control-c/control-v when I should be doing the command-c/command-v paradigm and all the function keys are only accessed when using the function button? No wait, that actually makes sense.
Function keys. Hmmmmm.
Just finished the last in the 15 part series of "In-house App Development Essential Videos" that apple had in their development area. About 20 hours of initial immersion into the Mac world. My head is swimming but it certainly is a decent start.
My favorite was the one on design for iPhone (#13 in the series) named "iPhone User Interface Design". Lots of juicy concepts and things to think about.
Just look for the "Getting Started Videos"
Computers won't be here until next Thursday. Serious bummer as I had hoped to get some "hands-on" over the long weekend. Not sure if its the waiting or the reading about it and not being able to do anything to solidify it.
If I knew I could get away with it I'd buy one at Fry's Electronics and return it when the one from work came in.
Bah!
Did a lot of roaming around looking to validate choices on how to learn this stuff as quickly as possible, without missing something vital. There is a lot of great information on the developer center from Apple, if you are a member (free), you can get at it (more free).
Cocoa and Objective-C book is awesome. Apparently the entire design of Cocoa is promoting the Model-Viewer-Controller ideas very strongly. Although there are apparently ways to paint yourself in a corner, I would think that is always the case if you look hard enough, or don't look hard enough for that matter.
Found an Apple PDF reference for enterprise deployment. Looks like a big corporation doesn't need to jailbreak the phones to keep their in-house applications in-house. That's nice. Wonder what kind of hardware we will need there?
At least I know what jailbreaking is now ...
Got a lesson this morning from a co-worker on Macs in general. They got a bunch of 'G' stuff but its already old hat. The new monsters are all Intel-based (hence the 'i' prefix) machines and this is required for iPad/iPhone development. Guess I haven't strayed that far from the path of light and goodness.
Conference attendance is official. Got signed up for a cool $1000 of the companies cash. Best part is MysteryPerson from the other group is going with - awesome developer! Only the best can happen now.
Out to the bookstore on lunch. Found a couple of things at Barnes & Noble (see refs) that look promising. The goal here is to figure out what it is that I don't know, then rework from there.
Later this evening, I find out that I am getting a new iMacBook Pro and iPhone ordered for me today. I saw the specs (i7 core 17inch with a SSD). Should be pretty fun.
I feel like a kid in a candy store
But not in this case. Apparently all this Mac stuff is built on Objective C and something called the Cocoa Dev system for iPad/iPhone.
Note to self: marketing 'e' prefixes are 'i' in the Mac world. ?
Signed up as an Apple Developer to start. I figure this will give me a place to figure out what I don't know; because right now I don't know what I don't know. About the worst position you can be in for any endeavor but I figure if you can admit it, recognize it, then you can move on.
hope this really does happen
