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Announcing our Swift and iOS 8 Roadshow

iOS

Our first roadshow is bringing one-day classes in Swift and iOS 8 to a city near you.

Matt Mathias

Aug 14, 2014

An Introduction to Microsoft Azure Mobile Services

iOS Mac

Microsoft Azure, a cloud storage and computing platform, is a one-stop shop for virtual machine hosting, web hosting, machine learning analysis, web-enabled databases, content...

Howard Vining

Aug 13, 2014

Discover Swift with this One Weird Rubyist!

Back-End Full-Stack Web iOS

At Big Nerd Ranch, we love certain things. We love coffee, we love fitness and we really love technology. When Apple announced Swift, I found...

Jay Hayes

Aug 11, 2014

Locking in Swift: Helping Protect Me from Myself

iOS

Swift helps you write code with fewer bugs. But even more intriguing are the possibilities to change "things I have to worry about" in...

John Gallagher

Aug 7, 2014

A Lurking Horror in Debugging

iOS Leveling Up Mac

…and upon looking into the face of indescribable horror, a bug so unfathomably odd that it shook the foundations of all meager...

Mark Dalrymple

Jul 30, 2014

UIDynamics in Swift

iOS

Want to use UIDynamics in Swift? Turns out, UIDynamics in Swift is pretty much just like using it in Objective-C. We just need to...

Steve Sparks

Jul 17, 2014

File it Away

iOS

Sometimes you stumble across a file. It might be something random in your Documents folder. It might be something a parent or a...

Mark Dalrymple

Jul 2, 2014

The State of the Weariverse

Android iOS

Wearables are becoming ubiquitous. Every day, it feels like there’s some new fitness tracker with a slightly different set of sensors and an entirely...

Kurt Nelson

Jun 23, 2014

Learning SDKs

iOS

After WWDC, there are new SDKs (Software Development Kits), APIs (Application Programming Interfaces) and new languages to play around with, along with the usual...

Mark Dalrymple

Jun 11, 2014