Rob Rix
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.
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Higher-Order Messages in Cocoa Publish Date: Jul. 16, 2004
Higher-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, 2003
The 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.
