Tuesday Dec 22, 2015
We had a ton of new members show up this week! Thank you for showing up and we hope to continue seeing new faces. Again, we had every level from people who were just getting started to some who had apps in the App Store already. We had some entrepreneurs who were looking for feedback for their apps in the store as well.
NOTES: Johns talk on Tuesday, maybe some links to testing resources as well as sample project. We need to make sure we are linking to the meetup pages for the Group.
Testing Links: Johns Example Testing Project https://github.com/iOS-Connect/sheepCounterTesting UITesting Helpers: http://masilotti.com/xctest-helpers/ Objc.io Testing issue: https://www.objc.io/issues/15-testing/ There are many great resources at objc.io/issues
In case you missed it, SpaceX made history last night. They landed their rocket after sending 11 satellites into space. Check out the incredible feat here.
Since we are all mobile (or aspiring) developers, a great mind in the mobile space Ben Evans wrote about 16 mobile theses.
Phil Schiller is now the head of the App Store for Apple. We'll keep on eye on how this changes things.
One member wanted feedback on an app that has an algorithm that reads your face and tells you your personality.
One SJSU student built a location-based events app and another one that helps you find roommates on campus.
We helped one new face build a weather app by connecting to the Dark Skys API.
One gentleman was working on building a hangman app using drawRect.
We also had members looking for inspiration on learning iOS (hopefully we helped!) and advice with NSNotificationCenter.
There was a great podcast last week on the Talk Show with John Gruber where Craig Federighi gave his thoughts on open sourcing Swift and the future of Swift. You can hear it right here.
Some great videos from the Functional Swift conference can be found here.
An in-depth look at refactoring from Sandy Metz. The code is ruby but the lessons are applicable to all of us.