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Favor Objective-C factory methods (or remember to release)
When Java came out and I began to spend virtually all my time building Java applications, I naively figured the days of manual memory management were gone (after all, Java has garbage collection!). Fast forward to now. The popularity of … read more
Working with arrays as values in MongoDB
Unlike relational database models, MongoDB documents can have fields which have values as arrays. The prototypical example in almost all MongoDB documentation is a document having a tags field, whose value is an array of strings, such as ["NoSQL", "Ruby", "MongoDB"]. If you’re coming from a relational world (which most of us are) then this feature, at first glance, is a bit intimidating. read more
