Four short links: 4 June 2014
Swift on GitHub — watch a thousand projects launch. HTTP API Design Guide — extracted from work on the Heroku Platform API. End-to-End PGP in Gmail — Google releases an open source Chrome extension to...
View ArticleFour short links: 9 September 2014
bleve — A modern text indexing library for go. Scientific Consensus Has A Bad Reputation—And Doesn’t Deserve It (Ars Technica) — a lovely explanation of how informal consensus works in science. NB for...
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New Swift language shows Apple history
Like many Apple programmers (and new programmers who are curious about iOS), I treated Apple’s Swift language as a breath of fresh air. I welcomed when Vandad Nahavandipoor updated his persistently...
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Multipeer Connectivity on iOS 8 with Swift
Multipeer Connectivity is a means of identifying and connecting services together, and allows for very easy passing back and forth of data with minimal setup. If you are thinking that this seems...
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Swift-like Swift code
Swift is becoming the language of choice for more and more developers on iOS and OS X. It’s fast, simple, clean, and has a number of features that simply aren’t available to Objective-C programmers....
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Translating your Objective-C project to Swift
If you’ve got an existing app written in Objective-C, migrating it into Swift is an excellent exercise for learning Swift, experimenting with Swift, and deciding whether to adopt Swift on a full-time...
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Parallax scrolling for iOS with Swift and Sprite Kit
Buy iOS Swift Game Development Cookbook, 2nd Edition. Up until the mid 1990s, the pinnacle of video game graphics was parallax scrolling: the use of multiple scrolling backgrounds, which created a...
View ArticleFour short links: 4 December 2015
New Antibiotics Research Direction — most people don’t know that we can’t cultivate and isolate most of the microbes we know about. Swift now Open Source — Apache v2-licensed. An Apple exec is talking...
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