I need a cup of cocoa

For a while one of my big bug bears has been that Apple’s Bluetooth file exchange app doesn’t support Applescript. I’ve been meaning to do something about it since there is some pretty decent documentation for the Bluetooth parts of Cocoa.

I’ve been looking at the documentation for the OBEXFileTransferServices class. It looks pretty straight forward to my programmer brain. It provides simple FTP style services serialised over the bluetooth connection. This isn’t rocket science.

However, trying to dip into Cocoa reminds me why I like languages like python so damn much. It’s not that I don’t understand the concepts, I have a 1st class Computer Science degrees for christsakes, it’s more that I have no patience to faff around with the machinery of the language. It seems like XCode is yet another IDE which requires coaxing into getting the environment perfect for compiling.

So, right now I’m tired and I sound like a whiney old mare, but help me out. Someone point me at some resources or books which will get me into Cocoa development fast.

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