Stay with Select or go to Online?
Stay with Select or go to Online?
- Subject: Stay with Select or go to Online?
- From: David Trevas <email@hidden>
- Date: Fri, 27 Jul 2001 00:33:03 -0500
I am close to completing my first year as an ADC Select Member and I
have to decide soon if I want to renew.
My real job involves programming CAD software to allow for custom design
within our manufacturing guidelines. At $20,00 to $100,000, our
customers like to customize A LOT. They have their own separate ideas
on how to apply our products, so we try to accommodate them all. Thus,
I'm writing in C in Windows.
I joined to get my hands on ProjectBuilder/InterfaceBuilder and to start
to learn Cocoa. Before I joined, I studied "Objective-C and
Object-Oriented Programming" and wrote some small ObjC programs with
UWin and even with CodeWarrior. I really enjoyed the Developer Preview
4 of OS X and the subsequent versions. The came that black day when it
was announced that the tools I paid $500 for were suddenly free (I'm
glad I didn't buy WebObjects for $50,000 the week before the price
dropped to $699!) I've used only one of my Technical Incidents and
ended up solving my own problem before my third or fourth iteration with
DTS. From that one experience, I can't say that my asset worth $195 was
of any higher quality than the information shared here. Maybe, I'll
have better luck with my other one.
I am really focusing on Cocoa projects with some OpenGL graphics, so
most of the stuff that comes on my monthly seed disk is not particularly
interesting to me. I have requested a seed of OS X 10.1, but I have not
heard back from DTS. I'm not sure why I have to ask: my understanding
of this program was that software seeds were part of the deal.
Needless to say, the projects that I am trying to realize are all
"killer apps" that will set the computing world on its ear (tongue
firmly in cheek!) Nothing is close to being marketed (too many SIGSEGV's
and SIGBUS's!) Ultimately, I'd like to create Cocoa software for a
living, but at this point I can only pursue it as a hobby and consider
it training for that future. It seems to me that, at this point in
time, my needs and budget are more in line with the Online Membership.
(I could scare up the 500 bucks, but I'd really have to have some
compelling justifications to give to the BIG BOSS, aka my wife.)
If some of you are Select or Online members, or can otherwise share your
points of view to help me with this decision, I sure would appreciate it.
Thank you.
David Trevas