Goldenseal Pro Progress Report #10 (Sep 6)

Our staff now has a decent grasp of the new Swift programming language, and the basic Cocoa libraries.    It will take a few months to get fully up to speed, but we are ready to start coding.

Our contractor wrote quite a bit of startup code in Objective-C, and we are reviewing it now to see how much can be salvaged.  We may need to start over entirely, but it’s worth spending a week to understand his code, and decide what to keep (and how to merge it).  If nothing else, we need to learn enough Objective-C so we can link our C++ to Swift.

It took us about 2 months to move Goldenseal from Mac OS 9 to X, and 2 weeks to move it from PPC to Intel.  Unfortunately, this is going to be a bigger transition.  Hard to estimate right now, but it will be months, not weeks or years.  A lot of the time will be “learning curve” that will pay off when we start writing apps for iPhone and iPad.

Dennis Kolva
Programming Director
TurtleSoft.com

Author: Dennis Kolva

Programming Director for Turtle Creek Software. Design & planning of accounting and estimating software.