Eloy should post his 1 hr screencast to this group

[Tizzo]

Holy crap, I just watched this screencast twice. Once to understand
what was going on...and second to develop along side while it played.
I would encourage Eloy to at least post this screencast up on this
group for easy access.

A few other points:

I've been looking to dabble with Cocoa for a while now but I just
can't get past 2 major learning hurdles:
1) Objective C (disgusting)
2) The massive Cocoa framework (enormous)

What this screencast has showed me is that RubyCocoa is a viable
alternative. Not only that, the knowledge I've learn from RoR is
transferable to RubyCocoa...via Rucola. Plus, Eloy using friggin
classes like NSURLDownload that I never knew existed.

Thanks again.

[Eloy Duran]

Hi Tizzo,

I'm glad you enjoyed it so much :)
For other people, the screencast that's referred to is: http://superalloy.nl/misc_files/rubycocoa/rucola_building_an_app_bdd_style.mov

>
> Holy crap, I just watched this screencast twice. Once to understand
> what was going on...and second to develop along side while it played.
> I would encourage Eloy to at least post this screencast up on this
> group for easy access.
>
> A few other points:
>
> I've been looking to dabble with Cocoa for a while now but I just
> can't get past 2 major learning hurdles:
> 1) Objective C (disgusting)

I agree :)
Although it doesn't hurt to learn some as you go,
but this will come naturally when you try to translate objc code into
rubycocoa code.

>
> 2) The massive Cocoa framework (enormous)

What I do most of the times is simply search on cocoadev.com, it's an
excellent resource.
And then when I've found what I need, I look at the in-depth
documentation for that specific class.

But yeah cocoa is enormous, don't try to put it all in your head :)

Cheers,
Eloy