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Hey All,
I've been a mac user for about two years now and have become more and more impressed by the stability offered by Unix.
However, I still live in both worlds (XP and OSX) and my programming roots are windows based (sorry
).
I'm trying to determine which direction I should head for writing a program that gives me access to the USB ports on a Mac, and allows me to correlate it to a web atmosphere. Basically, I'd have a device attached to a USB port (or multiple), and I'd use an OSX USB driver to write to a database, in turn - use dreamweaver to build a WEB that interfaced with this database.
I'm not sure what software I should use to write an app that can talk to my USB ports, as well as load them into a chosen database. I think once I have the data collected into a database, I can handle the WEB side of this, but I want to take this one step at a time.
I installed Xcode and I was ready to take off when I said - "wait a minute, this isn't exactly visual studio."
My programming background is in C++, VB and ASP (with VB script & Java Script) but I haven't written for about 3 years (hence the ASP and not ASP.net)
I'm asking for some advice on what books would be a good aid for me to purchase in order to help me achieve what I'm trying to do. I stopped in at my locals Border's bookstore the other night, and there was quite an array (not a java array ) to choose from.
So here is what I almost picked up for a starter:
http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/07...n=507846&s=books&v=glance?tag=macforums0e4-20
Any suggestions?
Another major thought in my mind is the transition to little endian, which is what Intel uses (vs OSX big endian). Obviously, I don't want to get burned by this if I flip the wrong bit after the architecture changes....
I realize I may have really 'broad brushed' this, but I really wanted to hear everyone's thoughts since there may be other 'projects' I attempt to tackle on OSX.
Your suggestions on any books, sites, software, etc will be greatly appreciated......
Thanks for reading,
Steve
I've been a mac user for about two years now and have become more and more impressed by the stability offered by Unix.
However, I still live in both worlds (XP and OSX) and my programming roots are windows based (sorry
).I'm trying to determine which direction I should head for writing a program that gives me access to the USB ports on a Mac, and allows me to correlate it to a web atmosphere. Basically, I'd have a device attached to a USB port (or multiple), and I'd use an OSX USB driver to write to a database, in turn - use dreamweaver to build a WEB that interfaced with this database.
I'm not sure what software I should use to write an app that can talk to my USB ports, as well as load them into a chosen database. I think once I have the data collected into a database, I can handle the WEB side of this, but I want to take this one step at a time.
I installed Xcode and I was ready to take off when I said - "wait a minute, this isn't exactly visual studio."
My programming background is in C++, VB and ASP (with VB script & Java Script) but I haven't written for about 3 years (hence the ASP and not ASP.net)
I'm asking for some advice on what books would be a good aid for me to purchase in order to help me achieve what I'm trying to do. I stopped in at my locals Border's bookstore the other night, and there was quite an array (not a java array
) to choose from.So here is what I almost picked up for a starter:
http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/07...n=507846&s=books&v=glance?tag=macforums0e4-20
Any suggestions?
Another major thought in my mind is the transition to little endian, which is what Intel uses (vs OSX big endian). Obviously, I don't want to get burned by this if I flip the wrong bit after the architecture changes....
I realize I may have really 'broad brushed' this, but I really wanted to hear everyone's thoughts since there may be other 'projects' I attempt to tackle on OSX.
Your suggestions on any books, sites, software, etc will be greatly appreciated......
Thanks for reading,
Steve
