Well it’s been a while since I updated this blog, and a lot has happened since.
I’ve moved away from hardcore dev and back into the marketing world. However, I’m focused on technical marketing, including data analytics, so I get to use Python quite a bit now.
One thing that hasn’t changed is my passion for cycling. I’m still regularly pumping out 250km+ per week, and loving every minute of it.
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I’ve been keeping an eye out for projects looking to develop robust web frameworks in open source Swift.
A week or so ago I stumbled on the very promising Vapor - a Laravel inspired web framework written in Swift. Check it out and star the repo.
You can build a basic Vapor web app really easily using this installer I wrote over the weekend.
Download the binary from the repo, add it to your $PATH enter vapor new ProjectName at the command line (OSX or Linux)
and there you have it - a blazingly fast Swift web app.
Happy coding.
Matt
Read moreThe open sourcing of Swift was a truly wonderful thing!
I’m really excited about the prospect of using Swift server side as it’s such a fun language to code in.
So, over the Christmas-New Year holidays I spent some time playing around with the very promising Perfect server on Ubuntu using Vagrant.
I’ve published this Vagrantfile for anyone who wants to play with a functional Swift webserver on Linux. :)
Happy coding!
Matt
Read moreYou shouldn’t repeat code, so don’t!
One of the many things iOS developers need to do over and over again is to display a UIActivityIndicatorView in a UIViewController.
However, most of the time this seems to be accomplished by adding a UIActivityIndicatorView to each controller, which does not adhere to the DRY
principle.
Thankfully, using Swift extensions, it is very easy to create a global activity indicator.
Read moreRESTful APIs often return json dictionaries with keys formatted using snake_case, particularly for back-ends build in Ruby or Python frameworks.
However, Swift typically uses the camelCase convention for object properties, which can make converting json responses to Swift objects a
little too verbose.
Never fear, with a few quick extensions you can make this conversion a breeze.
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