This little exchange between a relative newcomer (?)
to Xcode and the
head of developer tools at Apple (I'm not sure about
that title,
Godfrey) strikes me as indicative of a systemic
problem with Xcode: the
developers of Xcode do not appear to have a good
understanding of the
users of Xcode.
i have to agree as i am finding Xcode/Interface
Builder/the whole Apple development environment to be
more obtuse, complicated and convoluted than i was
expecting. i've been trying to create a simple
program to manage a small inventory using a mySQL
database as the datasource. i was able to get mySQL
up and running(despite the bad documentation on their
site) and was even able to use Xcode to get some c
type programs to read and write to the database.
however, i've spent more time and in fact had to break
down and buy aaron hilligases book on cocoa
programming to make any real headway (the doc on the
apple web site is unfortunately very complex and
difficult to navigate on it's own). i find the
interface builder to Xcode connections to be
particularily weak (why are these two separate
products btw?)
