A lot happened last week

As mentioned earlier, I just returned from 10 terrific days in Israel. And while I was gone, two products that I've been working on for a long time saw the light of day.

Google Checkout went live last Thursday. Google Checkout is a cool service that lets you buy stuff really fast using information from your Google account (including a Gmail account). I wrote the API documentation, which helps merchants hook up their stores to Google Checkout. If you don't have your own online store, but you want to try selling something with Google Checkout, take a look at Buy Now buttons, an incredibly easy way to sell something and get paid through Google Checkout.

And also last week, on a more personal scale than Google Checkout, Learn Objective-C on the Macintosh was published as an ebook (paper version coming soon). The estimable Mark Dalrymple of Advanced Mac OS X Programming fame wrote this one, and I went through and polished it a bit. This process reminded me of the way comic books are drawn, where one artist creates the art in pencil, then another redraws in ink, erasing and touching up a bit, so we decided to use comic book terminology for the credits and a comic book theme for the design. If you have any interest in learning or improving your Objective-C skills, I highly recommend this book. Getting Mark Dalrymple to teach you Objective-C is like having Michael Jordan show you how to play basketball.

Comments

[Joe Sellers]

I'm reading that book. Using XCode platform and copying the code from the book on p26 gives the error "error: syntax error at 'OTHER' token" Any idea why? Thanks.

BTW, I bought both the book and the e-book.