Have exchanged some more mail with Chuck. He wants someone to write about two-thirds of the book. As someone else at ORA once said, Mac OS X is really just FreeBSD Unix with plastic no-slip bathrub flowers stuck all over it. So, the Terminal command reference and all will just be a dance remix of previous books on that topic (
Going to see if I can't meet with him today. I spent some of the weekend messing around with Project Builder, Apple's development IDE that comes with OS X. It really is rather impressive. I'm curious how deeply he'd want me to get into programming for the OS. I'd love the excuse to learn C for real, of course. Actually, prog, consider: where I'm headed later this year, be it another job or grad school, knowing C can only help me.
Hum. Well, I dug up my copy of Kelley and Pohl's "A Book on C" yesterday. Guess I'll go get some coffee and start in on this a second time, taking Project Builder for another spin at the same time.
I wonder why Chuck thought of me for this project. My glomming onto OS X was well-known in the company after I got my iBook and started blubrling about it on internal mailing lists, of course. However, there are definitely other OS X-using writers on ORA's radar, and I was imagining that I ruined my chances of writing more after "Perl & XML" because of my open whininess about it (sometimes); it's a sure thing that Chuck spoke with Linda before coming to me, and she apparentlly did not suggest that he find someone else for it. This boggles me, to be honest. But: shrug. Let's see what happens, hm?
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looks and works on OS X exactly like it does on Linux); he needs a writer to cover all the stuff specific to OS X. Going to see if I can't meet with him today. I spent some of the weekend messing around with Project Builder, Apple's development IDE that comes with OS X. It really is rather impressive. I'm curious how deeply he'd want me to get into programming for the OS. I'd love the excuse to learn C for real, of course. Actually, prog, consider: where I'm headed later this year, be it another job or grad school, knowing C can only help me.
Hum. Well, I dug up my copy of Kelley and Pohl's "A Book on C" yesterday. Guess I'll go get some coffee and start in on this a second time, taking Project Builder for another spin at the same time.
I wonder why Chuck thought of me for this project. My glomming onto OS X was well-known in the company after I got my iBook and started blubrling about it on internal mailing lists, of course. However, there are definitely other OS X-using writers on ORA's radar, and I was imagining that I ruined my chances of writing more after "Perl & XML" because of my open whininess about it (sometimes); it's a sure thing that Chuck spoke with Linda before coming to me, and she apparentlly did not suggest that he find someone else for it. This boggles me, to be honest. But: shrug. Let's see what happens, hm?