Cocoaphony

Apple finally updated the Memory Management Guide to deal with IBOutlets.

They came to the same recommendation that many of us have. Treat them exactly like other properties. Mark them as retain properties, release them in -dealloc, and overload -setView to clear them in low-memory situations. This last recommendation was one that many of us used, but was based on undocumented behaviors. Apple finally documented the behavior because there’s no other good way to do it given their internal implementation.

Unfortunately they haven’t updated the “Using View Controllers” documentation to include this stuff, and the section on how -loadView works is still a bit vague. I’ve sent them feedback on those pages.

It’s a lazy day for me. That means I’ll probably hack stuff all day.

One of my best friends in the world just sent me a note asking for a good Cocoa reference. I thought I’d pass on the same advice I gave him:

This is the book on learning Cocoa:

Cocoa Programming for Mac OS X by Aaron Hillegass

Third edition is supposed to come out this summer. I’ve read the proofs of the 3rd edition, and it does add some good stuff, but if you’re anxious to get started, I’d get 2nd edition and get started. Read more…