One of my goals for Coherent 1.1 is the option of using a declarative syntax to set up child widgets. This would greatly simplify the average init method and make the code a bit clearer and easier to understand.
Category Archives: Coherent
Favourable Reception for Coherent
3 May 2008 – 9:59 am
I recently announced the upcoming release of Coherent 1.0 and I’ve been very pleased by the positive reception the library has received.
Lots of folks have come out of the woodwork to either say they’ve been looking for something like this for ages. I guess there are more fans of the Apple development model than I [...]
Selectors and Bindings
2 May 2008 – 8:40 pm
One of the routine complaints about Coherent (yes, I’m talking about you Ryan) is the use of custom attributes. It seems that some people like their HTML pure, like it was back in the old days.
Coherent 1.0 Release Candidate 1
25 Apr 2008 – 7:28 am
I’ve been working somewhat furiously to get Coherent ready for its first release. There’s already code in the wild on a heavy-traffic e-commerce site that is using it, but there is still a bit more testing I’d like to do. And the documentation could use another brush up.
If you’ve downloaded either the ZIP file or [...]
Properties And Bindings
4 Mar 2008 – 5:03 pm
Possibly the two most important concepts in the Coherent library are properties and bindings. If you’re familiar with modern programming languages, you’ve probably run across properties before, but bindings may be new unless you’ve worked with Apple’s Cocoa library. In order to get the most out of Coherent, you’ll need to understand these two facilities.