Cocoa Development

I picked up a book on Mac/Cocoa development and have been, slowly, working through it. I must say, XCode is a great development environment. It really has some nice workflow stuff going for it, and the UI builder is also swish.

However it is always the little things that aren’t obvious that bite your ass. For instance, in the book, it talks about using assertions in your code. Now, when you do a release build, you don’t want the assertions checked, because they can slow down your code. In the build menu, there is an item that you can add a macro to. Now, if the book didn’t tell me about this, i’d have no freakin’ idea how to set that up.

Anyway, it just goes to show that even with good tools, there is no replacement for experience.