Edge Cases

Nibs and Xibs and Storyboards, O My

Andrew Pontious explores with Wolf Rentzsch the history of resources on Mac OS, starting with resource forks and ResEdit and ending with the new “storyboard” file format, which receives a shocking thumbs up! Afterwards, Wolf thinks about diffing issues.

Links:

• Graham Lee tweet: “@rentzsch @apontious just caught up with your concurrency show. Did you gents see http://blog.securemacprogramming.com/2012/03/confine-all-the-things/ … ?”
• Chris Hanson tweet: “@apontious You can also set the tab and indent widths for projects.”
• Chris Hanson tweet: “@apontious It’s not “initial versus subsequent indent,” it’s “indentation” versus “tab width.””
• Petey Hosey tweet: ““If you align your colons [with tabs], … you’re Hoseyed.” —@apontious in @edgecasesshow #20”
• Petey Hosey tweet: “@apontious The trim-extra-whitespace thing made me very happy. Blank lines that are non-empty has long been a pet hate of mine.”
• Resource fork « Wikipedia
• ResEdit Reference
• Inside Macintosh: Macintosh Toolbox Essentials
• Resorcerer Home Page
• What are XIB files? « Fraser Speirs - Blog
• NibUnlocker « CharlesSoft (scroll down)
• WWDC 2012 Session 407 Adopting Storyboards in Your App
• The Grand Unified Model (1) - Resources « Folklore.org
• Extensible Application Markup Language « Wikipedia
• Website wireframes: Mockingbird
• codeq « Datomic
• Persistent Data Structures and Managed References, by Rich Hickey

Rejected Episode Titles:

• Hulk-Like Levels of Rage
• You May Want to Sit Down for This
• ResEdit, Man!
• The Shipped Bits
• Everybody Had Resources
• Everything That Could Go Wrong for a Developer Format
• The Unreadability of It and the Undiffability of It
• I Have Not Used Them in Anger
• I Have One Open Right Here
• None of This Sort of Gobbledygook
• Informative, Upbeat, Informative, Very Upbeat, Informative Talk
• A SmallTalk Background, of All Things
• If You’re Lucky, Pascal
• When You Spit It Out
• Then, of Course, the Diffing
• Suicide, with Interface Builder
• Textual Diff Hell That We’re In
• “Mr. Closure”
• Maybe I Should Go Lie Down