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Dumping the Swift AST for an iOS Project, Part 2
New and improved! Now even Swiftier! In my last post, I expressed some reservations about the method I was using to generate the correct compiler target for the AST command. Well, I appealed to a higher power (the swift-users mailing list) and got back this incredibly helpful response from Jordan Rose:
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Dumping the Swift AST for an iOS Project
These would be non-abstract trees. UPDATE: A new and improved version can be found here.
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Introducing Restless
I did all the dirty work for you. For a while now, in my “spare time”, I’ve been working on a new library for iOS. And I’m pleased to announce that it is now ready for public consumption.
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One-liner to Create an Immutable Copy of an Array of NSMutableArrays
We all love fancy data structures, but sometimes all you need is a nice
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Dynamic Dependencies in Objective-C
Or: You Could Be Forgiven For Assuming That This Is A Singleton
Smokey, my friend, if you don't use dependency injection, you are entering a world of pain. I was recently asked to debug a very mysterious crash in a customer’s code. It was a nasty bug – hard to reproduce, and with a very confusing stack trace.
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The Proper Way to Create a Singleton in Objective-C
Make sure you're using it right. There are many ways to create a singleton in Objective-C. Most of them are wrong. Read on for a rundown of your options.
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Non-Obvious Things You Should Know When Starting Your First Apple Watch App
Appropriately shown with three layers. So you want to write a Watch app? When I was writing one a couple months ago, I discovered that there are some high-level gotchas that can trip you up. Mostly what it comes down to is, if you don’t understand the paradigm that Apple expects you to work within, you’re gonna have a bad time.
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Cocoa Naming Conventions
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A Developer's Experience Running a Design Contest on 99designs
Obviously the desk of a master designer. Possibly Jony Ive. How important is it for a freelancer to have a website these days? I’m not sure how much utility it provides, but having something out there still seems to be a social norm. So I’ve been meaning to get my site off the ground for a while now (nearly two and a half years, to be honest). I finally convinced myself to get it done “soon”, and set about trying to throw together a simple page that would at least convince potential clients that I am an actual business.
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Apple Watch: Fashionable? Maybe. Useful? Maybe Not.
What would you say you do here? Like many Apple admirers, I watched yesterday’s Spring Forward event with excitement. And like many, I was left waiting for something more when it came to the Apple Watch.
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Using Twitter As Curated Comments
It’s rare when the sprawling blob of humanity that we call the internet agrees on anything. But we seem to be slowly reaching consensus on one thing: comments are awful.
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