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<http://www.alastairs-place.net/cocoa/faq.txt> Especially useful for pointers to documents relating to memory management and book recommendations Cocoa Bindings <http://developer.apple.com/documentation/Cocoa/Conceptual/CocoaBindings/
<http://developer.apple.com/documentation/Cocoa/Reference/CocoaBindingsRef/
<http://developer.apple.com/cocoa/cocoabindings.html> <http://homepage.mac.com/mmalc/CocoaExamples/controllers.html> <http://www.cocoadevcentral.com/articles/000080.php> <http://www.macdevcenter.com/pub/a/mac/2004/04/06/cocoa.html> Google <http://www.google.com/> (It is sometimes the case that using the subject line of a post as a search term in Google will yield an answer. If this is the case, you have probably not invested sufficient effort into finding an answer to your problem, and you are likely to receive a reprimand.) Developers are strongly discouraged from attempting to reformulate Cocoa's memory management rules in posts to the list. Almost invariably, someone makes a subtle or not-so-subtle mistake which then results in confusion and additional messages to resolve the issue. Simply post links to the relevant documentation, such as: <http://developer.apple.com/documentation/Cocoa/Conceptual/MemoryMgmt/Tasks/M...
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