The Flying Jalapeño Lives

The runtime has been a bit of a mystery to me.

To be sure, I have yet to explore some of the more dynamic aspects of Objective-C/Cocoa in my applications.

In fact, as many know, you can move along quite happily though your Cocoa/iPhone programming without directly daling with it. Others might not realize what’s “under the hood”.

If you really want to have some fun, you will need some fundamentals.

To this end, Mobile Orchard last podcast featured Rogue Amoeba’s Mike Ash who gave an overview of the runtime.

MDN also released episode 7 of the MDN Show which goes into more depth in an interview with Jonathan Dann of Sofa.

If these podcasts wet your appetite, Mike Ash has also produced a nice series of blog posts on the subject as well.

I’m sure you will find other great resources in the community as well, but this should give you a good head start.

I find the manner in which programmers vehemently defend and deride coding style preferences absolutely fascinating.

I personally feel that dot syntax serves a worthwhile purpose.
In fact, I have been refactoring old code to conform to this convention.

In the end, I feel these types of debates speak to the health and growth of the Cocoa/Objective-C community.