Comments on: Core Data / Array Controller: Edit on Insert

By: Frank McPherson

Frank McPherson — Sun, 17 Sep 2006 12:48:35 +0000

I'm almost embarrasingly stuck with Core Data right now, can't even get past the most complete example Apple has on their site, Core Recipes. I wrote about it in my blog. To the folks questioning the usefulness of bbum's app: a weight trend over time app is one of those things you could easily solve another way, for example with a spreadsheet. But Cocoa and Core Data are an elegant tool, and it's gratifying to build simple, useful things with nice tools.

By: Robert 'Groby' Blum

Robert 'Groby' Blum — Wed, 19 Jul 2006 14:22:52 +0000

Any chance of you sharing the rest of the code with us? I.e. the entire app? I’m using YellowPadAndPen.App right now, and those moving averages sure would be nice…

BTW: Nate hits it head-on. The large dose of will power is a key ingredient to weight loss. That’s why people like fad diets – they all promise you don’t really need that

By: Aaron Hillegass

Aaron Hillegass — Tue, 18 Jul 2006 14:45:00 +0000

Thanks for the great snippet of code. There is one problem: the table view will not properly end editing when an insert occurs. You really need to take care of this:
- (IBAction)insertNewWeight:(id)sender; { [[weightEntryTableView window] endEditingFor:nil]; NSManagedObject *insertedObject = [weightEntryArrayController newObject]; unsigned newRow = [weightinator rawWeightCount]; [weightEntryArrayController insertObject:insertedObject atArrangedObjectIndex:newRow]; [weightEntryTableView editColumn:0 row:newRow withEvent:nil select:YES]; [insertedObject release]; }

By: Nate

Nate — Wed, 24 May 2006 22:05:50 +0000

Quality food, Sensible portions, moderate exercise, + large dose willpower

It’s easier said than done.

By: David

David — Wed, 24 May 2006 18:13:03 +0000

Coincidentally, The Sun magazine talks about the food industry in this month’s issue. It is a fairly challenging magazine to find, but there is an excerpt from the article that I have linked to in the last line. It opens up a .pdf. If you would rather check it out through the online table of contents, you can find them here:

http://www.thesunmagazine.org/

The interview and the excerpt from the book “The Omnivore’s Dilemma” really opened up my eyes. As an example, talking about a meal at McDonald’s he says “I wanted to have that meal because I saw it through a whole different lens this time, and that was the lens of corn. That chapter comes at the end of a long section of the book in which I follow a bushel of corn, the cornerstone of the American food chain, to market. I don’t think people have any idea when they look at a McDonald’s menu that they’re mostly looking at different manifestations of corn. It was fed to the animals that were turned into meat; it was used to fry the French fries; it’s the basis of the salad dressings tnd the sodas. With the help of a scientist on theBerkeley campus, I took a McDonald’s meal and put it through a mass spectrometer. We found that a very high percentage of it could be traced back to cornfields in Iowa…”

Interview with Michael Pollan on How The Food Industry Has Changed the Way We Eat
Arnie Cooper

http://www.thesunmagazine.org/365_Pollan.pdf

By: bbum

bbum — Mon, 22 May 2006 00:04:38 +0000

Heh. I love it when anonymous makes an oversimplistic suggestion to the point of useless.

I minimized HFCS consumption many, many years ago and cut it out pretty much entirely in the last couple of years.

Yet, I still gained weight.

Without also exercising and actually eating right (i.e. appropriate sized portions & focus on preparation), eliminating HFCS does little more than following any of the other fad diets.

By: anon

anon — Sun, 21 May 2006 19:23:45 +0000

just cut out High Fructose Corn Syrup. That is all.

By: David

David — Fri, 19 May 2006 18:33:41 +0000

I completely agree. Good ingredients and watching the portion sizes are key…

By: bbum

bbum — Fri, 19 May 2006 17:59:42 +0000

hahahahaha… “Livable” means not having to give up good food. I’m finding that if I focus on preparation and quality of ingredients, I can produce really yummy meals that are actually quite good for me.

Sure, the salmon had a bit of a butter basting, but less than a half a stick for a 9 lbs salmon really isn’t that much! And the turkey was plain beyond the basting goo.

By: David

David — Fri, 19 May 2006 17:56:52 +0000

If livable lifestyle changes mean getting rid of the BGE, can I have it?