Over at her blog, Leah Culver is all "look what I did!" in 3 weeks of heads-down iPhone development:
"I'm three weeks into developing my first iPhone application, for Plancast. It's been crazy and fun to try to learn something new so quickly! In case you are thinking of getting started with iPhone development, here's how I got started...
I stopped reading right there, because, really: she's a girl, and I don't need to know what programming tips she picked up in Teen Cosmo or while she was doing her nails. This weekend, I burned the midnight oil to close my own 3-week marathon of Objective-C'ing, so lemme show you what I, a man by almost any reasonable measure, can do with 21 days and nights of hard-core dedicated iPhone development:
Can't wait to use this! You know where in the app store approval process it is right now?
Posted by: Mneedham | 03/08/2010 at 09:40 AM
Hell of a story, that. You know how Apple has restrictions on "inappropriate content" in apps? Well, as it turns out, that extends to the CODE, too. I KNOW! Everyone knows my variables are always nicknames for genitalia, my functions are named from the Karma Sutra, and comments are tagged with #BOOBIES!
This app is 9764 lines (single spaced) of complicated code. It's going to take a complete rewrite. Bastards.
Posted by: oof! blam! argh! | 03/08/2010 at 09:50 AM
"Zdziarski's book looked good and was the skinniest one I could find. "
That's my exact method for picking tech books! Skinny books rule.
Posted by: Tim Tate | 03/09/2010 at 12:23 PM