I was sent a review copy of Core Data: Apple’s API for Persisting Data on Mac OS X by Marcus Zarra. The problem is that I already own a copy. So I held a Core Data Haiku competition on Twitter; best haiku about core data posted with the #coredatahaiku tag wins the book. Sorry if you wrote a great haiku without using the hashtag, but I didn’t read it.
Anyway, the results. My decision is final, no correspondence regarding the judgement shall be entered into, the squirrel flies south to Leningrad.
Non-entering sample haiku for comparison purposes
This is mine:
Archiving does not
Make schema changes easy
So #lickahoctor
very much of its time, you’ll agree.
Dishonourable mentions
A couple of people sent entries via Facebook, which didn’t count within the rules of the game. So without naming the guilty parties:
I don’t want the book
I just like writing haiku
Nothing wrong with that!
When learning Cocoa,
Reasonably new to it,
The more books the bett-
Honourable mentions
The standard was very high, so I’m pleased to publish every entry, congratulations to you all for some inspired poetry. In a way, there are no losers, because you all helped to make the world a better place. In reverse chronological order (because I’m pasting from the Twitter search page):
I do not know what
Core data is. Need the book.
Please let me win it. — OrigamiTech
Lost In Winter Ills
Result Sets Unsorted Again
Managed Object Found — chwalters
With multiple stores
Inside one application
Little kittens weep — inquisitiveCode
object tree…
query is made
leaves rustle — ErikAderstedt
Core Data Haiku
NSManagedObjectCon
Text just doesn’t fit — hatfinch
its way too complex
painful big design upfront
I’ll Archive instead — alancfrancis
Core Data framework
You manage object models
NSPredicate — adurdin
Core data is fun
makes storage easy and fast
elastic wombat — GreyAreaUK
The Winner!
Core Data haiku winners and immortal beings played by Sean Connery share an important characteristic: in the end, there can be only one. And it’s this one, from adurdin:
SELECT * FROM thing
WHERE value =… fuck it—
just use Core Data.
Congratulations! I’ll contact the winner via Twitter to send him his prize.
