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What I’m reading this week…
A quick list of what I’m reading this week: The Positioning Manual for Technical Firms v1.8 by Philip Morgan Just F#*!ING Ship by Amy Hoy RXSwift Reactive Programming with Swift by Florent Pillet et al audiobook version of Rework by Jason Fried , David Heinemeier Hansson On order: hardcover edition of in camera by Gordon Laing
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post process – from camera to iPhone to Mac
One of the awesome features of the Sony A7R II is WiFi – I can connect my iPhone to the camera and download images right away. So I actually have two different Post workflows.
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What I’m listening to, now
When I was driving back and forth every week from Maryland to Atlanta I would listen to a slew of podcasts and audio books. Most of the podcasts were related to iOS, a platform I’m quite passionate about.
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Podcasts I’m currently listening to
I previously posted a couple of times what podcasts I was listening to. Back then, I was driving up and down the East coast every weekend between Maryland and Atlanta, so I had a lot of time to listen. Now, my commute time is much less, thankfully. That also means I spend less time listening…
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Swift 2 Unit Testing & UI Testing Resources
Starting to write unit tests in Swift 2 / Xcode 7 so thought I would keep a list of resources and share. Plan to keep this post updated as I find more. Feel free to ping additional resources in the comments! Talk by Jorge Oritz Real World Mocking in Swift (April 2016) brief overview…
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Google Analytics & Swift
I’m working on an iOS app written entirely in Swift that uses the Google Analytics library. At Google I/O 2015 they announced full support for Swift and even CocoaPods (which doesn’t actually work if any of your other libraries use_frameworks! – but they are working on that and it’s not a trivial fix). The initial intro…
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WWDC 2015 Session Notes: WebKit
Some quick notes on the WWDC 2015 session, What’s New in Web Development in Webkit and Safari
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prototyping resources
Quick list of some interactive prototyping resources useful for iOS and other platforms: Invision (really easy & fast to use, let’s you deploy to both phones and web site) Flinto Pixate Design+Code (if you’re a Designer you can still prototype right from Xcode using Storyboards…let Meng To show you how)
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core data & cloud services for iOS in Swift
As an iOS / Swift mentor for Thinkful.com, every week I give my students a list of resources as a follow up to our mentoring session. This week’s resources cover details of dealing with data loaded from the Internet, storing data locally (core data and alternatives to core data), and cloud services. Finally we wrap up…
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this week’s iOS related resources
This week’s resources relate to putting together your UI in Interface Builder – Auto Layout, Adaptive Layout, Size Classes, Dynamic Text, and mastering the Interface Builder IDE. Additionally, we touched on architectural design patterns (MVC, MVVM, etc.). Finally, most of my students are starting to struggle with networking via the AFNetworking library, and using Objective-C…