metablog

Thursday, September 11, 2014

iPhone 6 Plus and The End of Pixels

›
It's been a long time coming. NeXTStep in 1989 featured DisplayPostscript, and therefore a device independent imaging model that meant ...
Wednesday, September 10, 2014

collect is what for does

›
I recently stumbled on Rob Napier's explanation of the map function in Swift . So I am reading along yadda yadda when suddenly I wake ...
Tuesday, September 9, 2014

No Virginia, Swift is not 10x faster than Objective-C

›
About a month ago, Jesse Squires published a post titled Apples to Apples , documenting benchmark results that he claims show Swift now with...
2 comments:
Saturday, August 30, 2014

So how are those special Swift initializers working out?

›
Splendidly: If you're building a UIView subclass that needs to set up a mess of subviews this can get old really quick. Best option I...
1 comment:
Friday, July 11, 2014

Overspeccing

›
I just took my car to its biennial TüV inspection and apart from the tires that had simply worn out everything was A-OK, nothing wrong at al...
2 comments:
Saturday, June 28, 2014

Compiler Writers Gone Wild: ARC Madness

›
In this week's episode of CWGW: This can't possibly crash, yet crash it does. In a project I am currently working on, the top cra...
5 comments:
Thursday, June 26, 2014

How to Swiftly Destroy a $370 Million Dollar Rocket with Overflow "Protection"

›
Apple's new Swift programming language has been heavily promoted as being a safer alternative to Objective-C, with a much stronger empha...
3 comments:
‹
›
Home
View web version

About Me

Marcel Weiher
View my complete profile
Powered by Blogger.