Under The Bridge

So it’s 60 minutes or so to show time. And the tension is can you feel it? palpable in the air over the feverishly enraptured lineup!

Well, ok, it’s more like a collective “I can’t believe that many people got up before I did” bemusement.

At least, unlike most here, we took the time for a good hearty breakfast, so we’re not knifing the others for scraps of Danish over at the snacks table. (Well, ok, I exaggerate, there’s no actual knifings so far, but that’s probably only because the knives are plastic.) And providing further evidence of my long standing theory that if you take a seat at the counter at Mel’s Drive-in the entire Mac community will eventually drop by for a chat, this morning our neighbour was the renowned Aaron Hillegass who, as you really should know already, is the/an author of the two most essential books on OS X programming, Cocoa Programming for Mac OS X and Advanced Mac OS X Programming. Which, if you don’t have the 3rd and 2nd editions of respectively, you should click those links and order, RIGHT NOW. We were planning to get around to doing an actual review of Cocoa 3 Ed. at some point, but we’ll settle for “Yeah, get it now” as being adequate. If you program in Cocoa, you should have it, simple as that. And while we’re on the topic, these books apparently are more or less the course notes from Messr. Hillegass’ Big Nerd Ranch in person training courses. We’re really much more book people than course people ourselves, but different strokes and all that, and if you are you should probably look into those!