Jesse Feiler - Sams Teach Yourself Core Data for Mac and iOS in 24 Hours

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Sams Teach Yourself Core Data for Mac and iOS in 24 Hours

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ISBN-13: 978-0-672-33577-8
ISBN-10: 0-672-33577-8

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Jesse Feiler is a developer, web designer, trainer, and author. He has been an Apple developer since 1985 and has worked with mobile devices starting with Apples Newton and continuing with the iOS products such as the iPhone, iPod touch, and iPad. Feilers database expertise includes mainframe databases such as DMS II (on Burroughs), DB2 (on IBM), and Oracle (on various platforms), as well as personal computer databases from dBase to the first versions of FileMaker. His database clients have included Federal Reserve Bank of New York; Young & Rubicam (advertising); and many small and nonprofit organizations, primarily in publishing, production, and management.

Feilers books include the following:

Sams Teach Yourself Objective-C in 24 Hours (Sams/Pearson)

Data-Driven iOS Apps for iPad and iPhone with FileMaker Pro, Bento by FileMaker, and FileMaker Go (Sams/Pearson)

Using FileMaker Bento (Sams/Pearson)

iWork for Dummies (Wiley)

Sams Teach Yourself Drupal in 24 Hours (Sams/Pearson)

Get Rich with Apps! Your Guide to Reaching More Customers and Making Money NOW (McGraw-Hill)

Database-Driven Web Sites (Harcourt)

How to Do Everything with Web 2.0 Mashups (McGraw-Hill)

The Bento Book (Sams/Pearson)

FileMaker Pro In Depth (Sams/Pearson)

He is the author of MinutesMachine, the meeting management software for iPadget more details at champlainarts.com.

A native of Washington, D.C., Feiler has lived in New York City and currently lives in Plattsburgh, NY. He can be reached at northcountryconsulting.com.

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Organizing things is an important human activity. Whether it is a child organizing toys in some way (by size, color, favorites, and so forth) or an adult piecing together a thousand-piece jigsaw puzzle, the desire to make order out of chaos (as one inveterate puzzler put it) reflects a sense that somehow if we try hard enough or just have enough information, we can find or create an understandable view of the world. Or at least an understandable view of the left overs in the refrigerator or the photos in an album.

Core Data is a powerful tool that you can use with the Cocoa and Cocoa Touch frameworks on iOS and Mac OS to help you make order out of the chaos of the hundreds, thousands, and even billions of data elements that you now can store on your computer or mobile device.