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gte910h · 2011-09-02 · Original thread
If you do the exact same amount of functionality in a shorter period of time, it frees up that time to then go make another part better. More features. More testing. Faster Release. More documentation. Accessibility features.

If you prefer to boil each grain of rice separately for a pilaf, and it tastes the same at the end, you just wasted a lot of time in the kitchen for no good reason other than you've not stopped and learned how to boil them all at once.

Try the new Xcode4 book: http://www.amazon.com/Xcode-Developer-Reference-Richard-Went...

It goes into IB's newest incarnation. IB is also fantastic when adding assecessability functions to your app. Another reason to add accessability functions to your app (beyond being a good human being who lets not-fully sighted people use your app) is that it allows kif to work: http://corner.squareup.com/2011/07/ios-integration-testing.h... (play the video).

I'm not a IB Zealot, I make views manually when it makes more sense to or IB is just not doing it's job with any speed, but "0" is not the amount anyone should be using it who makes non-game apps.

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