Re: Recommended reading?
Re: Recommended reading?
- Subject: Re: Recommended reading?
- From: "Jerry W. Walker" <email@hidden>
- Date: Wed, 2 Aug 2006 22:31:05 -0400
Hi, Chuck,
On Aug 2, 2006, at 6:24 PM, Chuck Hill wrote:
I use Xcode daily and I have not read _any_ of this. :-) And I
doubt that I ever will.
Heh, perhaps that's why you refer to it as Vexcode. :-)
On Aug 2, 2006, at 3:01 PM, email@hidden wrote:
Perhaps I'm just being lazy, but reading the entire Xcode 2.3 User
Guide, which clocks in at a measly 536 pages, seems like an awful
lot of pre-reading to do for a couple of sessions on Xcode. Heck,
by the time I read all that I wouldn't need to attend the sessions
anymore! Most of the other things I've picked out to attend also
have recommended reading, though I haven't seen any others that
are this heavy-duty. And then there are the "related resources",
which I guess are like extra credit for the overachievers among us.
Is this recommendation really meant to be taken seriously?? Am I
going to regret it if I leave this summer reading pile at home?
Hi, Janine,
I would urge you to read the Introduction and the section on
"Developing a Software Product With Xcode". These two sections do a
pretty good job of introducing the Xcode vocabulary and, without
that, you will find the sessions more mystifying than helpful. It
would also help to examine a working WO project developed in Xcode to
see how the vocabulary presented in those two sections applies to a
WO project.
Unfortunately, Xcode is still aimed primarily at the Objective C, C &
C++ developers. All of those languages use a similar development
environment and it is the environment around which Xcode was built.
Java uses a very different environment, and most of the problems I've
had with Xcode for WO are problems surrounding the bad fit between
Xcode and Java. The bad fit mostly leaves a lot of options,
facilities and services that don't fit Java and together form the
cruft that makes it difficult to find what you need in Xcode for WO
development. The same comments apply to the documentation surrounding
Xcode.
I truly wish there were an Xcode For Java Developers Users Guide that
was as complete as the Xcode 2.3 User Guide, but left out all the
stuff that just doesn't apply and better modeled what was left for a
clearer presentation.
Despite this, the things that keep me using Xcode are:
* it is the Apple supported product, so one kind of assumes it
will stay in lock-step with OS updates and such
* it provides a better fit with the other WO tools (EOModeler and
WO Builder)
* the evils one knows tend to be preferable to the evils one
doesn't know (also known as momentum).
Good luck at WWDC, wish I could be there.
Regards,
Jerry
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__ Jerry W. Walker,
WebObjects Developer/Instructor for High Performance Industrial
Strength Internet Enabled Systems
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