Recipe 14. Add New Technologies

With this recipe, you wrap up the book by converting one of the classes at the heart of the Vermont Recipes application so that, instead of using accessor methods, Interface Builder connections, and reference counted memory management, it uses properties, Cocoa Bindings, and garbage collection. You will make these changes in the DiaryWindowController class because it contains enough accessors, connections, and memory management code to demonstrate what is involved.

Apple advises you to use all of these newer technologies when you begin to develop a new Cocoa application, because they will save you a great deal of effort and produce much ...

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