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. Read More
Coherent 1.0 Release Candidate 1
25 Apr 2008
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 pulled down the SVN repository, you should probably update to get the latest bug fixes and other goodies.
Properties And Bindings
4 Mar 2008
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. Read More
Faster than a Locomotive?
25 Feb 2008
After squashing a couple nasty bugs this weekend, I got to thinking about the performance implications of my solution. In a nutshell, the solution required wrapping getter methods with code to establish the ownership link between the value and the object. This wrapping only occurs for properties that are observed or part of a dependent key relationship, but still, we’re talking an extra layer of code. Read More
New Tutorial on Writing Widgets
14 Feb 2008
As the release of Coherent looms nearer, I’ve been encouraged to start writing some documentation. My first effort is up: Writing a Widget. This tutorial takes you through creating a widget using Coherent starting with raw mark up and ending with a functional (if simple) widget. Thanks to some great feedback (and encouragement) from Neil Mix of Pandora, this tutorial doesn’t suck.
Oh, and if you haven’t tried Pandora yet, what the heck are you waiting for? This is one of the coolest things I’ve run across in ages. Of course, now my wallet is going to be completely empty because I’ve been turned onto a half dozen musicians I’d never heard of before…