On Friday, July 5, 2002, at 01:34 PM, Phil Dobbin wrote: > I concur as to the books usefulness. I started by using Apple's > "Learning Cocoa"
I was somewhat disappointed with "Learning Cocoa." It's not a bad book; I was mostly disappointed because I'd already read most of the material in it, in PDF form, and I was hoping for more new stuff than it had. I haven't yet read the Hillegaas (sp?) book, but everyone I've heard from who has read it swears it's much better. There's also an O'Reilly book in the works, being written by Dan Sugalski. It's going to be called "Programming Cocoa Applications with Perl." I don't know what the release schedule is; it's not on the "upcoming releases" web page yet, so I imagine it's not scheduled until September or October at the earliest. In the mean time, I'm facing a dilemma. I enjoy working on CamelBones, and I'd love to do it full time, but I'm spending most of my time right now looking for a paying job. I left my web developer job last October, to focus on Cocoa. At the time, it looked like the market for web development was drying up, while Cocoa was booming - but I'm starting to think I made a bad mistake, and *drastically* overestimated the market for Cocoa programmers. If y'all like CamelBones, and you want to see me do a lot of really neat stuff with it, please, consider supporting it. sherm--
