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Cocoa Memory Management

It becomes evident, thanks to the mass centralisation of the neverending september effect that is stackoverflow, that despite the large number of electrons expended on documenting the retain/release/autorelease reference counting mechanism for managing memory in Cocoa, Cocoa Touch, UIKit, AppKit, … Continue reading

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Objective-C NAQs

Never-Asked Questions :-) In Code Complete 2 ยง6.5, Steve McConnell presents a list of class-related design issues that "vary significantly depending on the language". So why don’t we look at them for Objective-C? Especially as I can’t find anyone else … Continue reading

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ObjC FAQ update

Added a question about the ObjC 2.0 garbage collector. Sorry it’s been so long in coming! I’ll try and add a few more ObjC 2.0 questions over the coming days.

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