Best place to define a var for sharing between distinct UIViewControllers?

My app has two distinct UIViewController subclasses that handle two distinct UIViews. Both of these controllers need access to the same array of data. Where is the best place to define this array? In the AppDelegate class? If I define it there, how do the ViewControllers gain access to it?

"...rather than assuming you have a pointer to the label in your init method, it might be something you need to fill in in viewDidLoad. That's a great place to do that sort of thing."
I found out the hard way that it's not a good idea to try and do anything with the view in initWithNibName. It's ok to initialize controller data structures there, but setting up the view objects should be done in viewDidLoad.
I started trying to learn iPhone programming from scratch last summer. I'd been a C/Win32 developer since before it was 32 and hadn't programmed a Mac for over 15 years (they've changed a little since then). I thought Cocoa was hot chocolate. Amazon had lots of great looking iPhone SDK books for me to order, but none of them was published yet. When I downloaded "HelloWorld" I spent several hours trying to find where that string came from.. Should've know it was a resource, but I was too disoriented to include *.xib in my grep. Most of the docs at the iPhone Dev Center were pretty scary, and there wasn't much comfort from the Introductions that promised "The iPhone API is very similar to OS/X except..."
When I found out about CS193P I phoned Stanford right away. The $3000 price gave me pause, though. I could audit for less, but was told auditors couldn't ask questions. I wasn't about to ask my employer to help me retool for the iPhone, so I passed on the course. In hindsight I might have had some buyer's remorse when the course was offered for free this Spring. But I sure wish I'd had those lectures last Summer!
Seems to me there needs to be a 'best practices document regarding memory management. I believe there's something like this in the docs, but I need to look into it.
That would be +Memory Management Programming Guide for Cocoa+. If you don't read anything else in that guide, read and memorize Object Ownership Policy.
If you continue to help me out, I'll be sure to mark everything 'answered' so maybe you can take the top slot among contributors!
I'm smiling now. The point system here is fun, and the yellow and green stars are fun to find in the morning. But I'll have the thank you notes long after the points are erased (probably due to Apple Discussions' plan to kick the dev forums out--see the Feedback forum for more on that sentiment).
Actually it's strictly against the rules to discuss points when providing help unless asked, and the people who need help the most usually have no clue about points anyway. At least half the time, you'll see a message saying "Great! That solved the problem", and the OP has closed the thread by clicking "Mark question as answered" (no points) at the top of the page instead of "Solved" in the helper's reply.
What I'd really like is for our nos. 1, 2 and 3 to come back to this forum!! I'm hopeful Rick will return, but worried about 1 and 3 due to the circumstances of their departure. Both Etresoft and Orangekay are experts. They were here almost every day and could handle the advanced questions. I could rely on them to correct my mistakes. If you do a little detective work up in the Feedback forum, you'll see what happened to Etresoft.. Certainly an imaginative way to repay years of expert volunteer service. I shouldn't get started on that, though.
Come to think of it, you actually didn't ask for my life story. But I have a reputation for being verbose that sometimes requires going the extra mile.
\- Ray

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I am working on for a project which will be for Multiple countries.But Each country has different Instances.Now the questions is What could be the Best way to Define Employee numbering for all the Regions ? As for as My knowledge goes It would be Number prefixed by Country.Then How we can have Alpha numeric in employee Coding ? We need to have Fast Formula to Ahieve this task.If any body has come across this scenario please share your thoughts .Any thoughts are greatly Appreciated.
Cheers
Kumar cs

If you have each country on a different instance and you want employees to retain their employee number on transfer between countries, I believe you have two options:
i) Use manual numbering. One recent change to the system is that you can update the numbering profile from Auto to Manual and back to Auto again. So you could potentially leverage this manual workaround when a cross BG transfer happens.
ii) Bespoke module to export all emp numbers into a 'central repository', e.g., flat file, that can be accessed by all instances, imported regularly and then referenced by your Fast Formula. You would also need processing to determine when a person is a transfer from another BG or a new hire; probably have to be some control field on flex. Basically, this is a requirement made difficult by the decision to host each legislation on a different instance; I would never recommend clients to go down this route but I guess it's too late in your case.
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This is a two part answer:
1) The /Users/Shared folder is intended for this purpose. E.g. you could create a folder under /Users/Shared/Pictures/ as an example location.
After creating the folder, select it, right click and do a "Get Info". Check that in the "Sharing & Permissions" section of the info window that you add the other user as having the ability to "read & write" (or change the permission on "everyone" to "read & write")
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When using "referenced" masters, the only thing in that folder will be the "master" images... these are sort of like digital negatives. Aperture never actually changes a "master" image.
That means that if you start making adjustments, the other user will NOT be able to see those adjustments because all of Aperture's data is really stored inside the Aperture library. Your project & folder hierarchy, your list of slideshows, light tables, books, etc; every adjustment you've made to an image; image rankings, keyword tagging, etc. etc. all of that would be in your Aperture library and not visible to the other user (and likewise none of their changes would be visible to you.)
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Interesting post, I enjoyed it.
However, keep in mind, Arch is not Fedora. It is not Red-Hat-esque, not newbie-friendly, nor will it ever aim to be so.
http://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/The_Arch_Way
The way Arch does things is different in that it strives to use the most elegant and simple methodology. Note that simple does not mean "user-friendly", it means just that, simple. System configuration is left entirely up to the user. There are no GUI configuration tools; system resource controls are handled through configuration files and from the command line. This is unlikely to change.
What you may see as unfinished or raw, is actually the way Arch devs and users prefer the system to be, so your assumption that Arch has not reached version 1.0 is not quite accurate in this sense.
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I can out in init() method, or in teh onActon methods.
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Thanks, your answer helped me a lot. I found an even simpler method which doesn't require any extra applications.
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