I finally have my Mac Mini! After a month of waiting, here it is. A month ago, I would have never taught that buying and receiving the computer would be the hardest part of the whole project! But anyway, it gave me time to set everything up and be ready as sonn as I receive it. I have a couple of things to share with you so let's begin.
First of all, I ordered the "iPhone applications development for dummies" book. I already have a lot of books but I think that this one will be the best one to wrap up everything I've seen and learn so far. It will be the last one and I don't think I nned anymore books. The sad things is that there's still the non-disclosure on the OS 3.0 and, as I wrote two weeks ago in this blog, all apps submitted must now be OS 3.0 ready in order to be accepted by Apple. It's not that a big deal but still a bit annoying.
When I first ordered I had planned to add 3gb of ram to make it a 4gb comp. So I ordered two 2gb of ram that cost me 125$ and I wanted to make it install by some technician since opening the Mac Mini and playing inside of it can get touchy. So when I received it last Saturday I start searching for some guy in a Futureshop or something to install it but I found nobody who was qualified to do such job. (Yeah in quebec city?!). Anyway, I did not want to wait anymore to find some stupid Mac technician to install it so I watched the videos posted here in the last post and made it by myself. It worked on the first time and I didn't break it. So I now suggest everyone to do it by themselves if you want to save 40 bucks. Here are some pics of me installing it and the tools I used.
Finally, I've had a little time this weekend to begin working with the 3.0 SDK and It's been pretty well for now. Unfortunately I didn't hve much time and this week I'll be working like 50 hours so I still won't have much time but I can't wait to begin for real. I have about 5 or 6 ideas for great apps and I want to know if I'll be able to build them. Here's some pics of a simple (and I mean very simple!) app I made after about two hours of exploring ths SDK.
That's it for now and as soon as I have a bit more time I'll post again to let you know where I am in the learning and cretion process.
Francois
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