Should I be concerned?
Development has a nice helper concept that leaves the SHELL OF AN OBJECT around after it is removed. That lets there be something there to respond if you reference it again. That's a good idea.
Apple has a tendency to have a "fun" names. You would never see windows name something NSZombies.
Closing thought(s):
Now, how to make that into a t-shirt. Hmmmmm.
This is why C scares me
Was it really a joke? Think about it.
REFS:
Thompson, Ritchie and Kernighan admit that Unix was a prank
Before the storm
Did a lot of roaming around looking to validate choices on how to learn this stuff as quickly as possible, without missing something vital. There is a lot of great information on the developer center from Apple, if you are a member (free), you can get at it (more free).
Cocoa and Objective-C book is awesome. Apparently the entire design of Cocoa is promoting the Model-Viewer-Controller ideas very strongly. Although there are apparently ways to paint yourself in a corner, I would think that is always the case if you look hard enough, or don't look hard enough for that matter.
Found an Apple PDF reference for enterprise deployment. Looks like a big corporation doesn't need to jailbreak the phones to keep their in-house applications in-house. That's nice. Wonder what kind of hardware we will need there?
REFS:
Apple Developer
Closing thought(s):
At least I know what jailbreaking is now ...
