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: Steve Steinitz <email@hidden>
- Date: Thu, 5 Mar 2009 09:37:27 +1100
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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