The blog
This blog is to document my thoughts and finding as I strive to build my first Cocoa applications for my new MacBook Pro.
The name
I was trying to come up with a clever name based on Cocoa. I initially considered hot chocolate, but decided that it was too obvious. However, a reference to Hot Chocolate would be much more indirect. Their most famous song is easily You Sexy Thing, so that’s where the name comes from. Here it is backwards: You Sexy Thing -> Hot Chocolate -> hot chocolate -> cocoa -> Cocoa. This idea comes primarily from my wife, who had made this connection before.
I just hope I don’t get too many folks looking for some other sort of sexy thing.
My background
Although I did plenty of hobby coding on my family’s Commodore 64 and various IBM clones, my first professional programming experience was using Access Basic. I then moves my way up to VBA, down to VBScript, over to JavaScript, up to C++, back down to VBScript, up to VB.NET, and finally landed writing C#. Most of my experience and thoughts on this blog will probably come from a C# and .NET perspective.
In late 2007 I left my cushy corporate IT job and started working for a startup, mainly because they would let me do my coding on a Mac. Though I was hired to write Java and Ruby on Rails, I now do some Ruby, some Unix shell scripting, Ubuntu and Solaris configuration, but most of my time is spent writing iPhone apps using Cocoa touch. I love it.
Contacting me
If you have questions, comments, or concerns, or you just want to say hello, send me an email at krismarkel at gmail dot com.