Re: CocoaCast

[Yen-Ju Chen]

On 3/18/07, Graham J Lee <leeg@thaesofereode.info> wrote:
> Hi all,
>
> there's a podcast called CocoaCast <http://www.cocoacast.com> by
> Boris Klaydman and Russell Homsy, where they go through the chapters
> of Hillegass' "Cocoa Programming for Mac OS X" book discussing the
> concepts therein.  Well, I've been asked to join them in an episode
> on GNUstep ;-).  Any suggestions of things to talk about would be
> welcome, bear in mind the audience is likely to be Cocoa-centric, but
> mainly Cocoa newbies.
>
> I thought of trying to avoid explicitly complaining about problems in
> the GNUstep chapter of the book, and instead describing the current
> state of GNUstep play.  In that:
>
> - overview of the components -make, -base, -gui, -back and how
> they're analogous to Cocoa Foundation/AppKit
> - code portability between Cocoa and GNUstep (and using -make and -
> base with Cocoa lib combo), NIB support, Windows/Linux/etc. platforms
> - Summer of Code (there may be a few students listening to the
> podcast ;-)
> - some apps (mainly dev-apps like ProjectCentre and GORM)
> - GUI theming, possibly...

It may be nice to mention some efforts to port frameworks besides the core,
such as AddressKit (Addresses for GNUstep), CoreData (GSCoreData),
WebKit (SimpleWebKit).
It would also be good to mention ProjectManager (http://home.gna.org/pmanager/)
if developer application is under your radar.

Yen-Ju

> any amendments or additions would be muchly welcome ;-).  I've asked
> for write access to the wiki, once I've got that I'll create a page
> with an outline of the podcast material.  I don't know yet when the
> episode will be recorded.
>
> Cheers,
>
> Graham.
>
>
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