Tuesday, December 26, 2006
Tuesday, April 25, 2006
How much for a Cocoa developer?
I've been doing Cocoa development on OS X for about the last 3 years in Salt Lake. There doesn't seem to be a lot of Cocoa development going on in Utah. If you know of some, I'd love to hear about it. I'd also like to know what hourly rate Cocoa developers are making. I make most of my income doing Cocoa contract work and I sometimes feel like I'm getting the short end of the stick here in Utah. It's great to work in Cocoa and I enjoy my client's project but it would be nice to make something comparable to what I could make doing boring Java work. So, if you know what Cocoa developers are making, let me know. And if you need some Cocoa work done, let me know. Ruby on Rails work as well.
Sunday, March 05, 2006
RubyCocoa Presentation for BYU RUG
We interrupt the current "All PackRat All The Time" theme for this blog for an announcement. This Wednesday (March 8th), I'll be driving down to Provo to give my Ruby Cocoa presentation to the BYU Ruby Users Group. I'll probably have some repeat visitors from URUG, but it will interesting to meet some more Ruby people interested in Cocoa.
For some reason, the folks down in Provo seem to be a little more interested in non mainstream technologies like Ruby, NeXT (in its day) and hence Cocoa, etc. I wonder why that is? As a University of Utah alumni, that bothers me a bit. Are the Utes turning out Java, .NET lemmings? The answer is probably another post, but you can look at Alan Kay and his talk entitled "Are Computer Science and Software Engineering Oxymorons?". He gave this talk at the University of Utah last month and I found it quite interesting.
For some reason, the folks down in Provo seem to be a little more interested in non mainstream technologies like Ruby, NeXT (in its day) and hence Cocoa, etc. I wonder why that is? As a University of Utah alumni, that bothers me a bit. Are the Utes turning out Java, .NET lemmings? The answer is probably another post, but you can look at Alan Kay and his talk entitled "Are Computer Science and Software Engineering Oxymorons?". He gave this talk at the University of Utah last month and I found it quite interesting.
Wednesday, January 25, 2006
RubyCocoa for URUG
I'm giving a presentation on RubyCocoa at URUG tonight. Basically it's the same presentation I gave at O'Reilly's Mac Dev 2003 conference, but brought up to date. I'm looking forward to seeing what the Ruby guys think about Cocoa. I think they'll find it exciting.
I'll be giving the same presentation at the BYU Ruby group in February.
I'll be giving the same presentation at the BYU Ruby group in February.
