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June 18, 2005

Core Data Rocks More Harder Every Day

The more I use Core Data, the happier I am with it. I think it's an amazingly clean persistence framework for desktop applications. I think when us old-timers stop seeing it as “EOF-lite” and start thinking of it as an absolutely fundamental part of Cocoa, some astonishingly powerful apps are going to come from it.

A tip from WWDC: option-command-clicking on a model's graph paper will put up a temporary, scaled, bezel-style view of the entire model. Useful for seeing connections that have scrolled off-screen.

Posted by ttalbot at June 18, 2005 1:35 PM

Comments

I didn't know about that one. Pretty cool.

Posted by: Scott Stevenson at June 18, 2005 2:30 PM

And in the bezel view, if you click on an entity, the entity is selected in the model, and the model is scrolled until it is visible.

Posted by: Jon H at June 28, 2005 4:56 PM

Very cool, thanks! It just went from interesting and semi-useful to actually useful.

Posted by: Terrence Talbot at June 28, 2005 9:04 PM