The Bark Blog » Cocoa http://bark.metacasa.net Random musings from the earthy depths. Tue, 02 Mar 2010 18:23:16 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.5 en hourly 1 Cocoa MVC http://bark.metacasa.net/2006/07/01/cocoa-mvc/ http://bark.metacasa.net/2006/07/01/cocoa-mvc/#comments Sat, 01 Jul 2006 19:08:41 +0000 Umberdog http://bark.metacasa.net/2006/07/01/cocoa-mvc/ While reading up on Apple’s CoreData technology, I stumbled across one of those wonderful pearls of wisdom that seems so painfully obvious in hindsight, and yet never seems to reveal itself in foresight (especially when one is so focused on learning the low-level details). Funny that I’d never seen it before.

In a nutshell, three of Apple’s marquee developer products correspond directly the three components of MVC:

And of course, we need a pretty picture, from the CoreData page above:

Apple CoreData diagram

Kind of a silly epiphany, yes, but very useful for keeping things straight while sifting through the reams and reams of online developer docs, frameworks, IDE features, and APIs. Especially for those of us who are just starting to soak their feet in Mac development.

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