Introducing a new book : Cocoa and .NET Programming

Awesome! If you need someone to review/edit chapters I'd love to help. If not, just go ahead and preorder me a copy :)

Who is the booked aimed at?

If it's aimed at existing developers that only know one environment but not the other and want to see how the principles, approach and code are best suited on the other platform then that sounds very interesting.

If it's pitched at new developers with little or no experience on either than I'm less interested.

How to share code between the two would be quite interesting although I guess you are limited there to the lowest common denominator on both (unmanaged c libraries?)

[)amien

The goal is to provide developers with instructions on how to produce applications on each platform that are the best they can possibly be - using the most powerful and latest technologies on each platform.

The book is not really aimed at folks who are completely new to both environments, aimed mainly at people who know one of the environments somewhat and want to learn the new environment with respect to their old. That said, it's also an excellent resource if you only know a predecessor of one of the environments. So, if you're currently an Objective C "Tiger" developer, then the book will not only help you with Vista programming, but also show you Objective-C 2.0 and Leopard development.

I will be able to comment more specifically about the exact content of the book as I get closer to the completion of the manuscript. Until then, unfortunately, I have to refrain from divulging certain details of the Table of Contents.

great. I look forward to buying a copy.

Sounds great, I could really use a book to get me up to speed with both .NET and Cocoa!

Wow, that sounds awesome; I'll definately be buying a copy. However, I can't help but wonder why you wouldn't just go hard and write the ultimate leopard programing book - you've obviously enjoyed using cocoa, and there are already enough .net books out there... I mean, I don't think I've seen a cocoa book that even includes any reference to Core Data, or other Tiger technologies ... a good overview of leopard programming would be really sweet, and you'd have no competition :)

Actually, I think there would be overlap. A general-purpose Leopard book is probably something that would be more up the alley of Aaron Hillegass. His current Cocoa book is considered a bible and I would be shocked to find out that he didn't have plans to update it for Leopard.

Great news. I seem to be fairly good at finding typos as I'm not a speed reader and would be glad to help proof the book or any part of it for you. I would like a have a book that is not afraid to be technical and expect something of its readers. I want a book that experienced programmers can use to learn those two environments at a deep enough level to be truely useful.

I'm tired of reading programming books that leave me wondering if the author even knows how to program much beyond a Hello World application.

I don't get it. Are you thinking about using .NET tools/languages to program against the Cocoa API, similar to Cocoa#? Or is this essentially a book about 2 different dev environs rolled into one?

It is a book about practical application development, where the code samples are _both_ in C# and Objective-C on Windows Vista _and_ Mac OS X.