Showing posts with label books. Show all posts
Showing posts with label books. Show all posts

Sunday, June 28, 2009

Git, Buildbot, and "Pragmatic Version Control Using Git"

So my first patch to buildbot was accepted and merged into the trunk (or whatever git's equivalent is).
So given my lack of getting git, I acquired (thanks to O'Reilly and baypiggies relationship with them) a review copy of "Pragmatic Version Control Using Git".
I'll be posting a review on Baypiggies Website when I've finished reading it.
As usual (being a Pragmatic Programmers book) this book is quite well written (well thus far up to chapter 3), and works step by step through git and how to use it. So I'm hoping to get Git soon.
:)

Monday, June 8, 2009

iPhone programming

I've been learning iPhone developing for a while.
I got the book "The iPhone Developer's Cookbook" a while back for free as a review copy (which I'm reviewing here ). It does say in its introduction that the book can be used to learn iPhone programming. I'd have to dissagree. That book is best for learning neat tricks and hacks to squeeze the last bit of coolness out of the SDK (and beyond).

A friend pointed me at Beginning iPhone Development: Exploring the iPhone SDK as a better book to get started with, and, just 2 chapters and change into the book, it's clearly the superior book to learn iPhone programming. Things which had be befuzzled in the other book are very clearly explained in this book. Highly recommended.