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Swift Package Continuous Integration Guide

Swift packages offer an easy manageable way to share code and functionality. If you wish to create your own package, it’s important to make sure your code works where it’s supposed to and the quality is good. Most importantly, continuous integration is a great way to ensure that. If you are interested in learning why continuous integration is important, check out this article on avoiding merge hell. Therefore, in this article I am going to show you how to setup Swift package continuous integration.

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flatMap, Double Optionals, and Functional Programming

A while ago I did an article on the basics of Optionals and how they work in Swift. However, it seems there’s some confusion as to how one particular method works in Swift when it comes to a collection of Optionals: flatMap.

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EmpowerApps.Show – Upgrading Your Skills in 2020 with Paul Hudson

In this episode, Leo is joined by Paul Hudson of hackingwithswift.com about how to upgrade your skills and your team’s skills in 2020.

Scheduling Multiple Operations with Concurrency and Parallelism

Asynchronous Multi-Threaded Parallel World of Swift

Over the last 15 years, CPU clock rate has plateaued due to thermal limitations in processors. As a result, CPU manufactures have instead chosen to add more cores or processing units. Therefore nearly every device has multiple cores: from a Mac Pro to the Apple Watch. For this reason, Swift developers should take advantage of asynchronous methods.

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Asking for HealthKit permissions on the Apple Watch

Independent Watch App and HealthKit

In the development of my latest app which is an Independent Watch App that uses HealthKit, I ran into an issue with App Store Connect. App Store Connect will complain about missing Purpose Strings, that is the messages display to the user when access permission is asked for health information.

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Get Started Developing Server Side Swift with Vapor

Last month I spoke at SwiftTO in Toronto, a great conference with some great speakers. If you get a chance, check out all the talks here. My topic of choice was Vapor and how to get started.

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WWDC 2019 Roundup – Podcast Episode

WWDC 2019 was a major year with Catalyst, Apple Watch, iCloud and of course SwiftUI. After WWDC 2019 this summer, I did three podcast episodes highlighting some of the important new lessons we learned.

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EmpowerApps.Show – WWDC 2019 – Swift UI with Jason Anderson

In this episode we talk with Jason Anderson about Swift UI and reactive Swift post-WWDC 2019:

Functional Reactive Programming
Understanding Declarative Programming
Drawbacks of using Swift UI Now

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Mac for Developers – Which One To Learn Swift in 2019?

For beginners learning Swift, it can be a challenge to find the right Mac for developers. As with many things, I strongly believe you shouldn’t spend too much money until you know you will be making a real commitment to a project. Rightfully, this includes Swift and iOS development.

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Vapor – Deep Dive Guide into Setup and Deployment for Heroku and Ubuntu

It can be a real challenge picking the right back end for your mobile app. For instance, Swift developers don’t have anything without needing to run on another language. Therefore, I decided to do a review of Vapor and whether it is really a right choice.

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