RE: Learning Cocoa Book - the problem
RE: Learning Cocoa Book - the problem
- Subject: RE: Learning Cocoa Book - the problem
- From: "Kent Sandvik" <email@hidden>
- Date: Sat, 2 Jun 2001 12:04:19 -0700
I'm not a Cocoa developer, wish I had the right HW to start working on this
excellent platform. Anyway, quick notes about other great developer
communities that have created wonderful resources for sharing, for example
the perl community:
http://www.perlmonks.org - a really great site where people could ask
questions and the best answers are gathered together. It's become one of my
favorite quick 'find a good suggestion' places. It also helps that it's
based on a cool idea of people graduating through the knowledge curve by
becoming monks and helping others...
http://www.cpan.org - shared code that is published, and easily available,
you could download the latest versions or search for suitable code. In many
cases CPANs modules have been the main reason a systems admin programmer is
using perl. It's very practical that you could quickly install the needed
modules from a command line, and the underlying makefiles even recompile any
C code that are part of the module.
http://www.perl.org - that's where you start your browsing about the latest
about perl.
http://www.perl.com - does the same function
In general, all this requires that some individual or more, have an interest
to put things together, and maintain this over a long time, as things will
not happen over night. Also, it's quite OK to have multiple web sites and
resource systems, and it's really the long term that counts, looking at how
long it took for CPAN and perlmonks to be established. If there was a
similar common code sharing system (with a good review process so the depot
has quality code) integrated into a tool or the development environment, and
a perlmonks like environment where the best answers are collected and
reshared, that would already make a big difference, but that's my opinion.
Anyway, hope this benefits the Cocoa developer community. --Kent