On Jun 15, 2009, at 3:56 AM, Chunk 1978 wrote:
what are your thoughts? are developers who don't use IB masochists, or is it a wise choice?

IB is a power tool, and a fairly decent one. It has matured quite a bit over the years and can make short work of a lot of otherwise long & tedious jobs.

Like most power tools, it is not well suited for every job in the shop. As another pointed out: use the "best" tool for the job, whatever that is, and whatever your definition of "best" is. There are often competing requirements and defining "best" for any given task is an ongoing exercise.

That said, I was, until recently, an IB detractor. Basically, many of the tutorials (all I had seen) were great at showing you a walkthrough of how to magically create something without hardly any effort, but few (none that I had seen) actually TAUGHT you how to do anything. So, if you wanted to do something OTHER THAN what the walkthrough did, you were hosed. Or I was, anyway. After 5 failed attempts (over the years) to learn IB (project time-pressures always came up, and I ended up doing everything in code), I FINALLY learned how things work via the _Beginning iPhone Development_ book. Now I'm a big IB fan. Once you get it and things "click", it's a pretty good chain-saw.

...Provided that what you need to do is level a few trees :)

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