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 what caveats to keep an eye open for.
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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 what caveats to keep an eye open for.
Solid advice here. I’ve interviewed with companies that made me do the whiteboard stuff as most companies do, and I’ve had interviews where they ask me to do something — prove that I can do what my resume is claiming. (These are the companies I’ve had the pleasure to work with.) But Shane takes that…
Edit: I’ve updated this post to Swift 3’s syntax. The original post with Swift 2.X syntax can be found here. It seems that the new hot thing these days is open sourcing your Swift JSON parsing library. Lyft, Big Nerd Ranch, Thoughtbot, to name a few, have their own drop-in solutions for handling JSON with…
Josh Smith’s post is really resonated with me. It is more on the technical side of things, but still a valuable resource. There are basic common sense things about how to write good code that seem obvious once you know them, but are not so obvious to people who have not yet learned those lessons.…
It can be a pain. Specially if you’re subscribed to all of them. Thankfully, there’s an app for that. 🙄 Hirundo is a dedicated RSS reader for the Swift mailing lists. Read comfortably, keep up with discussions, bookmark conversations. Just download it now.
I really enjoyed this piece and can relate to what the author is describing. I’ve been there. The whole piece is a great read, but the key takeaways is this: Work on building a great team that you can trust and that can contribute to success rather than employing rooms full of passive code monkeys.…
I found this cool post that lists some best practices when dealing with data in Elixir. I’m not nearly as experienced with Elixir as I’m with Swift, having only played around with it for a couple of months now. However, I do find some similarities between the two languages — at least in the thinking…