Irrational Exuberance

archive / 2008 / March

1. Title: Tip Your Hat To Accessors And Mutators
   Tags: object-oriented

   Accessors and mutators are often the scourge of new programmers, mostly because they appear to be needless lines of code that get in the way of writing code that <strong>does something</strong>. I think thats mostly because no one has ever introduced them to just why accessors and mutators can be so useful.

2. Title: Handling Files With CoreData
   Tags: Cocoa CoreData ObjC

   A problem that a young Cocoa developer is likely to run into is how to manage files using CoreData. Here is an in depth look at a clean way to handle it.

3. Title: Catching Up On Some Thoughts
   Tags: JET japan

   This is a real grab bag on everything I have been thinking about recently, and on my future dreams.

4. Title: Tools, Languages, and Squeak
   Tags: squeak

   Why Squeak rubs so many different camps of developers in the wrong way.