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jonbwfc

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Re: WWDC 2014


	paulzolo wrote: I watched it, but really got narked by the constant use of the word “super” as a prefix. “It’s super exciting” - everyone said it to the point where it became meaningless. If they wanted to do hyperbole, I wish they could have used a more varied language. It got super repetitive and super annoying.

It does seem to be a bit of a current fashion to replace the word 'very' with the word 'super'. I'm not sure it makes any difference to the meaning but it does seem a bit 'arch', if you know what I mean. It's not just an Apple thing though.


	paulzolo wrote: All that said - I do think that someone has gone and knocked heads together in a board room. A lot of what was announced - closer iOS and OSX integration, the whole “continuity” concept was, in my mind, something that should have been done ages ago. I’m glad they’ve got round to it.

One thing that struck me; the new 'widget based' notification centre is actually VERY like the windows 8 sidebar thing. Which next to nobody ever uses.


	paulzolo wrote: I am also glad to see the return of iDisk - albeit in a slightly different form - but able to share any document. They lost traction to DropBox by dropping iDisk.

The fact they're providing a windows client is a major plus IMO.


	paulzolo wrote: Also Swift. An Apple engineer frond of mine tells me that I should find that useable. I’ve tried in the past, but have struggled with Objective C. I’m told that Swift should feel more natural to me (I mostly work in JavaScript and PHP when I’m using my coding head).

I haven't had a chance to read much of the book yet, but it does seem to have evolved more from the Java line of a languages than the C line. if the promises for for improved performance and maintainability work out though why the heck not. It does make a bunch of Objective-C books on a shelf at home suddenly feel quite redundant though

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Tue Jun 03, 2014 9:41 am

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Re: WWDC 2014

Wasn't Yosemite also the name of the original PowerMac G4 Motherboard?

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Tue Jun 03, 2014 10:04 am

jonbwfc

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Re: WWDC 2014


	BigRedX wrote: Wasn't Yosemite also the name of the original PowerMac G4 Motherboard?

There was definitely a Power Mac that had 'Yosemite' as it's pre-release codename. Although I do kind of like 'OS X Oxnard'.

Tue Jun 03, 2014 10:15 am

paulzolo

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Re: WWDC 2014

jonbwfc wrote:


	paulzolo wrote: Also Swift. An Apple engineer frond of mine tells me that I should find that useable. I’ve tried in the past, but have struggled with Objective C. I’m told that Swift should feel more natural to me (I mostly work in JavaScript and PHP when I’m using my coding head).

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I had a look at the first chapter. It looks very much like JavaScript in its form. Now, I know that JavaScript is a world away from Objective C, but the examples in the first chapter are very familiar to me. I’ve spent my time working on and off with JavaScript for a long time, so the familiarity is a bit like a big “welcome” mat on the door. I expect that will change when I fond I can’t do quite what I want, but let me dream until XCode 6 is out of Beta.

For example, this is a simple example.


	Code: “let label = "The width is " let width = 94 let widthLabel = label + String(width)”

The resulting output will be “The width is 94”.

Another more complex example:


	Code: “let vegetable = "red pepper" switch vegetable { case "celery": let vegetableComment = "Add some raisins and make ants on a log." case "cucumber", "watercress": let vegetableComment = "That would make a good tea sandwich." case let x where x.hasSuffix("pepper"): let vegetableComment = "Is it a spicy \(x)?" default: let vegetableComment = "Everything tastes good in soup." }”

Excerpts From: Apple Inc. “The Swift Programming Language.” iBooks. https://itun.es/gb/jEUH0.l

I can hear the serious coders flinging their hands in the air “O, fie! Now web developers think they are programmers”! :lol:

Meanwhile, the slow death of AppleScript...

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Tue Jun 03, 2014 1:09 pm

jonbwfc

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Re: WWDC 2014

Just 'cos you think you know a language

. I have an old power mac and a spare SATA drive, so I thought I'd give Yosemite a go. It's actually rather nice on initial impression, haven't actually done much though, just downloaded the XCode beta.

Wed Jun 04, 2014 6:31 am

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Re: WWDC 2014

Power Mac? I thought Apple had abandoned PowerPC architecture years ago...

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Wed Jun 04, 2014 8:23 am

jonbwfc

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	big_D wrote: Power Mac? I thought Apple had abandoned PowerPC architecture years ago...

Sorry, I'm an old man. Mac Pro.

Wed Jun 04, 2014 9:27 am

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