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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…
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refactor your heart (or, “how not to collapse on the road with cramping triceps while trying to learn the Swift Programming Language”)
I came across this post by Janie Clayton-Hasz where she paints a frightening picture of her spending every waking hour, plus hours where she is supposed to be sleeping, engaged in an epic struggle to ingest the vast sea of knowledge that is the iOS development platform. I didn’t get it; I asked her on twitter…
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Objective-C without all the baggage of C
Apple asked the question, ‘what if we could have Objective-C, without the baggage of C’. The answer is a new language: Swift finally.
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what keeps me awake while driving
Here’s what keeps me awake when I drive.
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iOS 7 Design Resources
A short post on iOS 7 design resources I wrote on the Anaara Blog
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Adventures in Objective-C: Categories
Every year Apple has been making Objective C and Xcode easier and easier to be picked up by developers like me – coming from a background in high-level OO languages (ActionScript, Java) with little to no experience in C – people for whom terms like “memory management” evoke images of creepy dark things crawling from…