OxyCo

November 3, 2006

TextMate blogging & the Objective C book intro

Filed under: Objective C, TextMate — atma @ 3:44 pm

Following the this video I did not managed to post through TextMate the famous MacOSX all-in-one editor. Although the blog functionality seems quite elegant doesn’t work as it should.
First all when fetching post’s through wordpress.com it fetches my Dashboard articles and not my previous posts. I don’t know why, maybe WordPress API is not working as it should? I’m quite positive that Allan’s blog should be a WordPress blog although from the video I didn’t understand if it’s WordPress or webpress, the spelling was not clear enough plus the fact I don’t speak native English, so I can’t be sure. He uses Markdown instead of HTML though. When I post I get error cannot post to this blog or category - (401). So if anyone reading this (Hello?) has managed to use TextMate with wordpress.com please let me know. Anyway..
I purchased from Amazon the following book: Programming in Objective-C by Stephen Kochan.
The first impression is good. The book seems to be what I needed in first place and has some positive feedback at Amazon’s website.

Jeez, writing in simple html for blog post’s in TextMate is much more easy then using other editors! Actually most of my posts were written in TextEdit which I like very much for it’s power and simplicity, but it’s not an HTML editor to make an acceptable comparison!

I noticed that most of the mac programs like the one’s already mentioned, QuickSilver, VoodooPad, etc. are made in a very smart, elegant, simple yet powerful way. It’s not just the operating system, it’s the entire community that has a genius mindset :-)
uhh!!
I need to get some sleep and read a bit about instances and methods!!!

Cheerz!

EDIT: Update! I’m editing through TextMate!

My mistake was putting the this line:

oxyCo http://atma@wordpress.com/xmlrpc.php

instead of this:

oxyCo http://atma@atma.wordpress.com/xmlrpc.php

Now seems to work perfectly! :-)

EDIT2: I just purchased TextMate. Hope it’s worth the 39$!!

November 2, 2006

Hello Objective C!

Filed under: Objective C — atma @ 7:22 pm

Hello Objective C!

This is my new blog, entirely dedicated in Objective C. I am a starter, never had experience with programming languages, although I was/am able to write small scripts in bash and / or python. Nothing fancy but enough to keep my GNU/Linux tuned!
So a Mac lover with a Linux background in the world of Objective C and object oriented programming! Today I wrote my first program:

Hello world

Surprise ha? :-)

The reason I choose Objective C and not C, Python, Ruby or something else is the cocoa framework which is the best environment I’ve ever seen. I bought 2 books, the first is an extensive guide into Objective C for starters - non programmers - and the second one is an introduction to cocoa framework! I hope that books will speed up the learning process. Due to my work I don’t very much free time but I’ll try to finish the book in a reasonable time.

Cya

[myObject Free];

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