Re: Biting off too much?

FROM : Aaron Jacobs
DATE : Tue Aug 08 07:36:01 2006

Could you elaborate on your description of the application a bit?  A 
database to hold what?  What does 'decent security' mean in this 
context?  What OS X technologies are you planning to use?  When you 
say front/back-end, do you mean that you are going to develop a 
client and a server?  If so, how do they communicate, over TCP/IP or 
what?

Also, is this in expectation of having an actual product, or just for 
practice?

On Aug 7, 2006, at 10:27 PM, Brent Austin wrote:
> I am wanting to put together a specific cocoa app. I am a beginner 
> but I don't think I am biting off more than I can chew. What I 
> would like to do is create a database app with an interface 
> (frontend + backend) with the frontend being a form-style input 
> interface with decent security. I would like to make several of 
> these independant front/backends but also have them interfaced 
> through one main initial starting point.
> I know where I should start but because I know exactly what I want 
> to do I was hoping someone would be kind enough to give me specific 
> advice. I don't want to make a simple crappy looking app. I want to 
> follow the Apple Human Interface guidlines. I've been reading that 
> using Rudy with Cocoa is a new and better way to go. But I've also 
> discovered several development environments for databases. I really 
> don't have a specific starting point. All I'm seeing are XCode 
> books and Cocoa books.
> Thanks in advance for any advice I may recieve.