Rob Rix

Biography

Rob Rix is renaissance man from Ontario who's been coding on the Mac since just before the public beta was released. Lately he's been getting into some of the heavier and incredibly fascinating stuff -- atomic operations, memory management, language design, and OpenGL.

Articles

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Higher-Order Messages in Cocoa
Publish Date: Jul. 16, 2004Higher-Order Messaging (HOM) refers to the treatment of a message as a data type, like an object, so that it can be used as the argument in another message. The grandest use of them by far is for fun uses of arrays; combining them, getting selections from them, and so forth. But they also have uses in exception handling. Rob Rix explains HOM in this tutorial. Knowing When to Let Go: Better Living Through Memory Management
Publish Date: Jun. 10, 2003The basic idea of memory management is to keep objects around exactly as long as they're needed. In this article Rob Rix helps you learn how to keep objects around for as long as they are needed, but no longer.