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NSString memory allocation

Working through Chapter 3 of Cocoa Programming for Mac OS X. Question: why can you do this NSString *temp = @"this is a string"; and you don’t have to do this: NSString *temp = [[NSString alloc]...

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Real Progress on Cocoa

After Steve Jobs’ WWDC keynote I got itching to get going and leave the tutorials behind. After a while they become (for me) plodding and uninspiring, and I thought that I’d picked up enough to build...

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Cocoa Week 2: Conversion Methods and Data

Day 6: More work on the ChromaBank class. I was pondering how best to handle data for the conversion methods. I realized that, looking forward to when I get to a patch librarian and, later, an editor,...

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