John I listened to a great podcast this morning while painting the bathroom. Hey what else would I do while painting. The Pipeline on 5by5
The Graig Hockenberry one all are great but this last one deals with this issue. Graig wrote a popular iOS book this past year on the subject. Listen to it. On Dec 29, 2010, at 8:29 PM, John Robinson wrote: > I'll ask a question that if there is an answer I have no idea if I'll ever be > able to accomplish. I am not very "right brain" but I have such a need that > I want to see if I can at least begin. > > I have been working for years on a program that gets data from the Chicago > Mercantile Exchange. This was originally written in 4d, but it was too slow > and the upgrades to the next version were always over $2,000.00 for one copy > so the process to rewrite to mySQL began. I have a marvelous programmer but > he has just taken another job that is now occupying all his time and there > are so many things that need to be done, AND I don't need to rely on someone > else in a tight situation. > > This beast is huge, the SQL portion calculates the data, there is a program > (possibly written in SQL?) that goes to get the data, feeds it into the > database for crunching, then there is a front end that I can't remember, > starts with a "P" I believe, it draws the screens that we need. Finally > there are Applescripts that once the data is calculated they will email me a > screenshot of the day so if I am away from the computer when I need the data > I can have it sent to me, that is why I need an iPhone and iPad on both the > AT&T & Verizon networks. > > To print all this out would be several hundred pages and when I look at it I > think I have stumbled onto some Arabic. > > Where in the world would I begin to learn how to tackle this. Are there > schools around that teach Unix, mySQL, etc. etc. I don't want a degree, I > only want to learn my program. There are changes I need to make and my > friend just doesn't have the time so I am going to have to see if I can take > his code and make sense of it but to do so I will need classes. > > Books without instruction will do little for me as most textbooks assume you > already know way more than I do. Lee and many of the others on this group > could handle this type thing but for me I will need to start at the > kindergarden level and build. > > There may be video lesson online somewhere, I know where a ton are for > learning video, FinalCut, Photoshop, etc. but not the real geek stuff. > > Any direction would be appreciated, remember though it has to start basic. > > John > > > _______________________________________________ > MacGroup mailing list > [email protected] > http://www.math.louisville.edu/mailman/listinfo/macgroup >
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