Confused by Swift protocols
I just found a strange situation in Swift and, typically for that moment when you're learning something, I'm not sure if I've found a bug, a feature or something really clever I just don't understand.
Read MoreA lazy write-once Swift setter
An interesting post on Natasha the Robot's blog about data injection with storyboards and segues in swift got me to thinking. I'm using the same pattern as described in the post to set my data sources and other gubbins in prepareForSegue(_:sender:), and it seems
- Pretty unavoidable if you want to use segues as they're designed
- Uncomfortably permissive
JSON and the arguments
The iPhreaks podcast episode with Josh Brown was a good insight into JSON parsing in Swift. I didn't think it could be possible to have enough material for an entire book, but it turns out there is plenty.
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