Re: Newbie: Learning path for my GTD app...
Re: Newbie: Learning path for my GTD app...
- Subject: Re: Newbie: Learning path for my GTD app...
- From: Biagio <email@hidden>
- Date: Wed, 4 Mar 2009 15:36:18 -0800 (PST)
Everyone,
This is EXACTLY the guidance I was hoping and crossing my fingers
for. I hesitated to write a "thank you" so as to keep the noise on
the list to a minimum, but as a newbie who was (honestly) nervous
about posting, you've been incredibly welcoming and encouraging. Just
wanted to say thanks for all of the informative and kind replies. My
future questions will be much more specific, and, as Steve said, when
I can understand anything Ben Trumbull is saying about Core Data, I
will do a little dance of joy :)
Thanks again!
Biagio
On Mar 4, 2:37 pm, Steve Steinitz <email@hidden> wrote:
> Hi Biagio
>
> On 4/3/09, email@hidden wrote:
> >would just like
> >some guidance as to where to focus my attention after I get through
> >the above books. Any thoughts would be much appreciated.
>
> Core Data is a wonderful, powerful technology that, to a certain
> extent, makes persistence transparent. Its descends from an
> older, mature Apple/Next technology, called EOF, which is a
> shining example of the young Steve Jobs in full flight. But as
> Mike points out it can get a bit hairy. Even so, Core Data is
> simple at first so why not try to create a simple list of your
> GTD to-do 'items' (NSTableView bound to an NSArrayController
> which holds your Core Data 'Items' table). You might even give
> the to-do item 'context' and 'done' attributes and a date or two
> for good GTD measure. Someone who knew Core Data could set that
> up in 3 minutes flat. It might take you a day :) but you'd
> learn a lot. The default Core Data projects in Xcode will take
> you a long way.
>
> Then, when all that's done you could make your GTD to-do list
> hierarchical by giving the to-do items a parent and swapping the
> NSTableView for an NSOutlineView and struggling with bindings a
> little. Once you've done all that you'll know whether or not
> you like Core Data. I think you'll be starry-eyed about it just
> like the rest of us :)
>
> For your future Core Data education read everything that Ben
> Trumbull has posted on this list. The day you finally
> understand what he's talking about you will have arrived :)
>
> Cheers,
>
> Steve
>
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