At WWDC 2014 Apple introduced a new programming language, Swift. At this point everyone has exactly zero days experience in Swift. This blog will capture and share our learning, and I hope the learnings of others as we go.
One of the core benefits of using DrawDown is similar to Photoshop's smart objects, you can use a single consistent image in lots of different ways. I blogged about how you can use DrawDown to achieve consistent but native icons previously, but we can take that a step further.
Read MoreWhen you create your new app on iOS app in XCode you will be faced with 20 empty boxes to fill in, and that's before you log in to iTunes Connect and are asked for just one more... Oh... and you probably want one for your web-site too that has the the right mask applied. Companion MacOS app? That's another 11. Wouldn't it be nice if a single script could create all of these for you?
Read MoreI'm sick of it. Just sick of it. Have you actually heard yourself? It's just shameful and embarrassing. I'm a middle aged, white, nerd blogger. All the toast, jam side up. I have had enough of whinging, spiteful, bitter, and stupid people who are harassing women/LGBT/muslims/whatever around the internet. I know that every time I tweet something positive about these people I lose followers.
Make the Swift 2.2 to 3.0 transition a little easier with these useful regular expressions for XCode