The first issue of Objective-C periodical objc.io has just been announced:
Issue #1 is about lighter view controllers. The introduction tells you a bit more about this issue and us. First, Chris writes about lighter view controllers. Florian expands on this topic with clean table view code. Then Daniel explores view controller testing. Finally, in our first guest article, Ricki explains view controller containment.
Each of the articles is of a high quality, I thoroughly recommend that you read this. I powered through it this morning and have already put myself on the mailing list for the next issue. I think it’s worth quite a few dollars more than the $0 they’re asking.
On a more self-focussed note, I’m pleased to note that two of the articles cite my work. This isn’t out of some arrogant pleasure at seeing my name on someone else’s website. One of my personal goals has been to teach the people who teach the other people: to ensure that what I learn becomes a part of the memeplex and isn’t forgotten and reinvented a few years later. In APPropriate Behaviour a few of the chapters discuss the learning and teaching of software making. I consider it one of the great responsibilities of our discipline, to ensure the mistakes we had to make are not made by those who come after us.
The obj.io team have done a great job of researching their articles, taking the knowledge that has been found and stories that have been told and synthesising new knowledge and new stories from them. I’m both proud and humble about my small, indirect role in this effort.
