Blogs from the Ranch Mikey Ward

Mikey Ward

Author Big Nerd Ranch

Mikey Ward has been an instructor at Big Nerd Ranch for over 10 years. He has taught courses all over the world in iOS and macOS development using Objective-C and Swift. He currently maintains the popular Swift Essentials course.

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Now Available: Swift Programming: The Big Nerd Ranch Guide, Third Edition

iOS Mac Ranch News

The Swift programming language has been evolving at a staggering rate since its original announcement over six years ago. We are proud to announce...

Mikey Ward

Nov 3, 2020

New HEVC & HEIF Media Formats: What You Need to Know

iOS

Once again, Apple is bringing to the table some new image and video formats to push the platform forward by saving you storage space,...

Mikey Ward

Jun 7, 2017

Illuminating ARCLite

Mac

Today we’re going to look at using Objective-C’s array and dictionary subscripting syntax with older iOS and OS X versions.

Mikey Ward

May 21, 2013

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Blogs from the Ranch Mikey Ward

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Now Available: Swift Programming: The Big Nerd Ranch Guide, Third Edition

New HEVC & HEIF Media Formats: What You Need to Know

Illuminating ARCLite

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