Apple Apple starts rejecting apps with “hot code push” features This thread from Apple's Developer Forums is making some waves on the internets today. Apparently, they're now rejecting apps that include code that can modify your app after it's released to the store.
phoenix1.3 action_fallback and contexts in Phoenix 1.3 made my controllers tiny! Yesterday I posted about how Phoenix 1.3 was pure love for API development. In that post, I mentioned that one of my favorites features in this new release is the action_fallback
elixir Phoenix 1.3 is pure love for API development Phoenix 1.3-rc.0 was just released, and while it's still not a final release, it already feels solid as h*ck. I've been doing a personal project on the side for a
The Algorithms Of Discrimination Go read this. If you prefer you can listen too. I posted a blog post a few weeks ago about an experience I had interviewing at a rather large and well known company
Facebook announces Yarn, a new package manager for JavaScript From Facebook's announcement: In the JavaScript community, engineers share hundreds of thousands of pieces of code so we can avoid rewriting basic components, libraries, or frameworks of our own. Each piece of code
elixir ElixirConf 2016 videos are starting to get posted Looks like the wait is over. Some of the videos from ElixirConf 2016 are starting to get posted over at confreaks.tv. I know what I'll be doing with my evenings for the
Is the open source culture hurting new developers? That’s a bold question to ask. But I’ve been thinking about it. As a member of the iOS developer community, I see people interested in learning how to create iOS apps
Swift Bringing piping syntax from Elixir to Swift I've been writing Elixir for my main backend needs for the past few months and I've really liked it — specially its syntax. In fact, I've gotten so into its syntax that I've often
Singletons in Swift If you come from the Objective-C world, you're probably familiar with the singleton pattern. @implementation MyClass + (id)sharedInstance { static MyClass *__instance = nil static dispatch_once_t token; dispatch_once(&token, ^{ __instance = [[MyClass
swift blog On Apple's take on how to handle JSON with Swift 3 A couple of days ago, Apple published this post in which they describe some ways one can parse JSON using core languages of Swift 3. Weird thing, they suggest that it is OK
Introducing my new book, Best Practices for Developing iOS Apps with Swift Hey there! That's right, I'm launching the first book in what I expect will be a long list of titles that I'll be publishing in the following months. Best Practices for Developing iOS
› Tesla, the new HTTP client for Elixir As I've written before in this blog, I've been playing with Elixir/Phoenix for the past few months — I even have a couple of production applications running right now! Just learned about Tesla,
› Impressions From My First ElixirConf Just read this summary of Nate Taylor's experience attending ElixirConf for the first time. So many details ring a bell on me, and I didn't even attend the conference — but I sure wish
elixir Filtering has_many relationships in Ecto This is sot-of a follow up to my last post, about self-referencing many_to_many relationships using Ecto. I find myself in a scenario where I have a User: # User model defmodule MyApp.
Self-referencing many-to-many relationships using Ecto EDIT: I've changed the last section of this article to reflect my findings in actually using this in production. I've decided to do the backend for a new app I'm creating myself, using
Developer Insights, from Apple With all the chatter around making a living on the App Store, and the recent changes to the App Store subscription model for apps, it seems that Apple is now trying to tell
Swift 3 Migration issues This is a post that I'll be updating continuously with all the bumps that I find on the way while developing with Swift 3 and iOS 10. CloudKit's database fetchAll methods are missing
Updating my codebases to Swift 3 Apple officially released the first beta of Xcode 8 this past Monday, which includes Swift 2.3 (an updated version of the language to work with the new APIs on iOS 10 and
› Rewrite from Scratch - Autopsy of a Failed Software Project This post brought a ton of memories back to mind. I've wanted to start a project from scratch far too many times more than I'd care to admit. What I've found in my
Swift Elixir's syntax is awesome: Railway development in Elixir using the with statement I've been loving Elixir so far. What I like the most is its syntax. So much that lately I've been finding myself trying to use Elixir's syntax while coding Swift. This post is
Let's Encrypt leaves beta Finally. Encryption has never been easier. Such important sponsors put my mind at ease now, I'm going to be using Let's Encrypt for my projects from now on.
Another favourite from Xcode 7.3 In previous versions of Xcode, if you were working with Swift and tried to override a var from a super-class, you had no auto-completion suggestions. Most if the time, I had to go
Swift #selector One of my favourite changes in Swift 2.2 is that Objective-C selectors now are first class citizens in the Swift ecosystem. So long to error-prone selector names as Strings. Swift 2.2
On Leveling Up as a Developer I just read this post from David Bryant Copeland at naildrivin5.com. This resonated with me: [...] This may seem like a lot, but these meetings are crucial. Having dedicated time with your manager
How to use NSUserDefaults correctly NSUserDefaults is a simple, yet powerful API available for us developers. It can assist us to create beautiful user experiences. David Smith posted a comprehensive guide on how to correctly use it and