Submitted by matt_eaton
on Sun, 07/03/2016 - 03:47 AM
It was brought to my attention the other day at work that Swift's JSONSerialization.jsonObject method was throwing runtime errors inside a do catch statement of type AnyObject and the do catch statement was not catching those errors as expected.
Submitted by matt_eaton
on Sat, 06/18/2016 - 04:11 AM
This year Apple's World Wide Developer Conference was held in San Francisco from June 13th to the June 17th and there was no shortage of big announcements.
Submitted by matt_eaton
on Fri, 06/17/2016 - 03:23 PM
At the time of writing this Swift is the number one language project on Github. Apple is very proud that Swift is open source and I would have to agree that this is an excellent step forward for the language and for Apple. Another great step forward from a language and platform perspective is the ability to run Swift on macOS, iOS, watchOS, tvOS, and Ubuntu Linux.
Submitted by matt_eaton
on Sat, 06/11/2016 - 03:16 AM
Profiling memory allocations in a iOS project is probably one of my favorite things to do when building a project besides coding.
Submitted by matt_eaton
on Thu, 06/09/2016 - 02:48 AM
In my most recent adventures in iOS I had a string hashing problem that led me down the road of creating a machine learning algorithm in order to find the correct random hash string I was looking for. Looking back at the solution now, I was able to solve my problem successfully, but the solution I came up with to solve this problem is quite unsettling due to the variable results in time compl