SwiftCoders: Interviews with Swift Developers

30: Nicholas Sawka - US Coast Guard Officer with 7 Apps in the Store

Links:

• Nicholas on LinkedIn - https://www.linkedin.com/in/nicholas-sawka-41aa3b79
• Commanding Echos by Nicholas Sawka
• Udemy - https://www.udemy.com
• Big Nerd Ranch - https://www.bignerdranch.com
• Devslopes - http://devslopes.com
• Apple's Auto Layout Guide
• NSUbiquitousKeyValueStore - https://developer.apple.com/reference/foundation/nsubiquitouskeyvaluestore
• Amazon Alexa/Echo Skills
• StockSnap - https://stocksnap.io

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29: Paola Mata - iOS Developer at BuzzFeed & Co-Founder of NYCTechLatinas

Links:

• Paola Mata on Twitter - @PaolaNotPaolo - https://twitter.com/PaolaNotPaolo
• NYCTechLatinas - https://twitter.com/NYCTechLatinas
• MadeByLatinas - http://www.madebylatinas.com
• Coalition for Queens - http://www.c4q.nyc
• Skillcrush - https://skillcrush.com
• Viggle - http://get.viggle.com
• TurnToTech - http://turntotech.io
• Fizz Buzz  - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fizz_buzz
• Yvonne De La Pena: Co-Founder of NYCTechLatinas - @LatinaEngi - https://twitter.com/LatinaEngi
• CodeNow - https://www.codenow.org
• PowerToFly - https://www.powertofly.com
• Evoluent Ergo Mouse - https://evoluent.com
• The Weak, the Strong, and the Unowned (Video) - https://realm.io/news/hector-matos-memory-management/
• BuzzFeed Mattress - https://github.com/buzzfeed/mattress
• Learn Swift Boston - http://www.meetup.com/Learn-Swift-Boston/

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28: Gilbert Osborne - Zero to App Store in 6 weeks

Links:

• Website - http://gilosborne.com
• Healthy Paws App - https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/healthy-paws-dog-park-tracking/id1135987695?ls=1&mt=8
• New Hobby Box - http://www.newhobbybox.com
• Cratejoy  - http://start.cratejoy.com
• Hacking with Swift - https://www.hackingwithswift.com
• Bitbucket - https://bitbucket.org
• Jared Davidson - https://archetapp.com

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27: Josh Hinman - Lead iOS Developer at TigerText

Josh and I discuss:

• Meaning of Lead vs. Senior
• AIM Chat Bots
• Security, privacy, encryption, app transport security
• Thread Safety, Static Analysis, and Zombies
• Josh on Twitter - @JoshHinman - https://twitter.com/joshhinman
• Josh's website - JoshHinman.com

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26: Yoni Tsafir - Lead Developer at JoyTunes

We talk about being an iOS Dev in Tel Aviv and the start up scene there, Swift developer tools, clean code, testing, and bunch more. Enjoy!

Links:

• Yoni on Twitter - @theyonibomber - https://twitter.com/theyonibomber
• JoyTunes -  bit.ly/1LMcK6w
• AppCode IDE - https://www.jetbrains.com/objc/

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25: Joe Masilotti - Lead Developer at BeerMenus

Joe is the lead developer at BeerMenus and he's super passionate about clean, well-tested code. Enjoy!

Links

• Joe on Twitter - @joemasilotti - https://twitter.com/joemasilotti
• Website - http://masilotti.com
• Testing NSURLSession - http://masilotti.com/testing-nsurlsession/
• Poem written in Quick / Nimble - https://twitter.com/garricn/status/763981410365345792
• Pod Lib Create - https://guides.cocoapods.org/making/using-pod-lib-create.html
• FBSnapshotTestCase - https://github.com/facebook/ios-snapshot-test-case
• Mocking - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mock_object
• OCMock - http://ocmock.org
• Polyglot - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Polyglotism

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24: Josh Brown - iOS Consultant and Content Publisher

Josh is the principal and founder of Roadfire Software, as well as the author of Parsing JSON in Swift. Be sure to use offer code 'swiftcoders' at checkout to receive 10% off on any edition.

Links

• Josh on Twitter - @jtbrown - https://twitter.com/jtbrown
• Roadfire Software - http://roadfiresoftware.com
• Parsing JSON in Swift - http://roadfiresoftware.com/parsing-json-in-swift/
• 30 x 500 - https://30x500.com/academy/
• Lego Programming Project - http://lukazi.blogspot.com/2014/07/lego-legos-first-programmable-product.html
• VIPER - https://realm.io/news/altconf-brice-pollock-250-days-shipping-with-swift-and-viper/

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23: Maximillian Litteral - Indie Dev & WWDC Scholarship Winner

Best known for the app Television Time, Max is a young - yet accomplished - indie dev that has a super bright future. He's also a WWDC Scholarship winner. Enjoy :)

• Website - http://maximilianlitteral.com/index.html
• Apps by Max - https://itunes.apple.com/us/developer/maximilian-litteral/id467232088
• iOS Developers Slack Team - http://ios-developers.io
• GitHub Trending Swift - https://github.com/trending/swift
• MVVM Example on GitHub - https://t.co/onh7lsUWyr
• MVVM Medium Post re Example - https://medium.com/@IanKeen/separation-of-concerns-ui-edition-1916a35a6899#.z8aookbjv

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22: Ash Furrow - Software Developer at Artsy

Ash is one of the rockstars in our young Swift community. We're so lucky to have him as a member and a resource. Enjoy!

• Ash on Twitter - @AshFurrow - https://twitter.com/ashfurrow
• https://ashfurrow.com/blog/we-need-to-replace-objective-c/
• https://github.com/ashfurrow/playground-book-lint
• http://danger.systems/
• http://artsy.github.io/blog/2016/01/30/iOS-Junior-Interviews/
• https://ashfurrow.com/blog/normalizing-struggle/
• https://github.com/artsy/eigen

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21: Garo - How was WWDC '16?

Garo is a staple in the Los Angeles iOS Developer community. In this episode, we talk to him about his experience at DubDub. Enjoy!

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20: Josh Avant - iOS Developer at CrowdRise

From the Commodore, to PHP and the Web, to Objective-C, to Functional Reactive MVVM in Swift, Josh is a goldmine for our Los Angeles iOS Developer scene and we're so happy to welcome him into the SwiftCoders community. Enjoy!

Links:

• Video - Functional Reactive MVVM at CocoaHeads LA - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g2Bd0p3J_4A
• Video - Protocols with Associated Types - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XWoNjiSPqI8
• Josh on Twitter - @joshavant - https://twitter.com/joshavant
• Website - https://iamjo.sh
• Email - josh@iamjo.sh

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19: Radek Pietruszewski - How was WWDC '16?

We talk to Radek about his experience at WWDC 2016.

Links:

• Diffing algorithm
• WWDC Hike
• Felix Krause
• WWDC Developer Session video on provisioning

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18: Genady Okrain - How was WWDC '16?

In this episode, we talk to Genady about his experience at WWDC 2016. We learn about what it's like to go to DubDub, what the sessions are like, what the labs are like, what the parties are like, and what it's like to be the guy that invented the app that people use to find those parties :p

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17: Radek Pietruszewski - iOS Developer & Swift Summit Speaker

Radek is one of the bigger names in the Swift community that we've had on the podcast thus far. He's got some pretty advance Swift repo's on GitHub and some advanced blog posts over at radex.io. Meet the man behind the Swift Ninja in the final episode of Season One of the SwiftCoders podcast. Be sure to listen to the end for info and surprises :)

Links:

• Radek on Twitter - https://twitter.com/radexp
• Radek on GitHub - https://github.com/radex 
• Radek @ Swift Summit (Video) - https://realm.io/news/swift-summit-swifty-methods-clarity-brevity/
• Charter app - https://github.com/matthewpalmer/Charter
• Hurindo app - https://stylemac.com/hirundo/
• Morgan Evits - https://twitter.com/morqon
• Nadia Comăneci - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nadia_Comăneci

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16: Genady Okrain - iOS Developer at Reelgood & Creator of Parties for WWDC

Creator of the world famous WWDC Parties app, need I say more?

Links:

• Genady on Twitter - @genadyo - https://twitter.com/genadyo
• Amazon Skill - https://medium.com/@genadyo/developing-for-the-amazon-echo
• Lyft Open Source Swift SDK - Written by Genady! - https://github.com/genadyo/Lyft 
• WWDC Parties - https://medium.com/ios-os-x-development/how-did-i-stand-out-among-thousands-of-the-worlds-best-developers
• Reelgood App - https://reelgoodapp.com
• Caltrain - https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/caltrain-real-time-schedule/id1077039589?mt=8 

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15: Natasha Nazari - Linguist & iOS Developer Living in Taipei

Twitter Bio: Linguist & iOS developer. Student @FreeCodeCamp. Organizer @TechTaipei. Perfecting Русский язык, Español, & 日本語. Learning Persian. @KanjiCircle, @RussianQandA.

Links from Natasha whose "quoted":

• Natasha on Twitter - @natasha_nazari - https://twitter.com/natasha_nazari
• Game to learn Objective-C - http://tryobjectivec.codeschool.com
• Game to learn Swift - https://www.bloc.io/swiftris-build-your-first-ios-game-with-swift
• Erin Parker's Post - "This was the first post I came across that convinced me I could get into software development without having a background in computer science." https://www.quora.com/Learning-to-Program-Is-it-too-late-for-an-X-year-old-to-learn-how-to-program/answer/Erin-Parker?srid=iSSH
• Erin Parker's Learn to Code List - "I followed these in the exact order she listed them, since it offered a clear path for getting into Objective-C & iOS. I’ve always sought out learning roadmaps from people with more experience." - http://neverbendeasy.com/learn_to_code
• AppCoda’s Beginner & Intermediate Swift books - "These are so great for getting a solid foundation in iOS programming. The beginner’s book taught me how to break down large projects into smaller tasks." - https://www.appcoda.com/swift/
• Big Nerd Ranch - http://www.amazon.com/iOS-Programming-Ranch-Guide-Guides/dp/0134390733/ref=pd_bxgy_14_img_2?ie=UTF8&refRID=0WJBKXTD8C0HCXGQBQJN
• Advanced Swift -"Chris Eidhof’s amazing book. Like a good steak, it should be consumed slowly." https://www.objc.io/books/advanced-swift/
• Treehouse - "This is my favorite learn-to-code website. I’m still using it to dive into more advanced topics in Swift, and I plan to enroll in their iOS Techdegree." https://teamtreehouse.com
• NSScreenCast - "Weekly dose of learning to keep my skills sharp." http://nsscreencast.com/episodes
• Ash Furrow's try! Swift talk - https://realm.io/news/tryswift-ash-furrow-artsy-testing-tour/
• Chris Eidhof's try! Swift talk - https://realm.io/news/tryswift-chris-eidhof-table-view-controllers-swift/

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14: Jarod Long - Creator of Tabular for iPad & iOS Developer at Victorious

Jarod Long is the creator of Tabular, an iPad app for writing music, as well as an iOS Developer at Victorious in Santa Monica.

• Tabular - https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/tabular-mobile/id719462291?mt=8
• Victorious - http://victorious.com

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13: Honza Prokeš - Indie Mac Developer & Creator of iOff for OS X

Honza is an independent Mac developer that's using Swift to create iOff, a Mac app that enables you to put timers on your Apple Scripts.

• iOff - http://ioff.net
• Opodz - http://www.opodz.com

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12: Dean Murphy - Creator of the iOS Ad Blocker Crystal

Dean is an independent iOS Developer and the creator of the ad blocker, Crystal.

• Dean on Twitter - https://twitter.com/CraftyDeano
• Dean's Website - http://murphyapps.co
• iMessage Dean - msgDean@iCloud.com
• WWDC Session on Content Blockers: https://developer.apple.com/videos/play/wwdc2015/511/
• Murphy Apps Block Post: http://murphyapps.co/blog/2015/8/22/crystal-benchmarks
• My post on Acceptable Ads: http://murphyapps.co/blog/2015/9/25/on-acceptable-ads
• Corona SDK: https://coronalabs.com

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11: Dominik Hauser - Author of TDD in Swift & SwiftAndPainless.com

Dominik Hauser is an iOS Developer at Energy App Provider in Germany. He has multiple independently published apps in the app store. He's the author of Test Driven iOS Development in Swift, and he blogs at SwiftAndPainless.com. Enjoy!

Links:

• Twitter - @dasdom - https://twitter.com/dasdom
• Blog - http://swiftandpainless.com/
• Book - https://www.packtpub.com/application-development/test-driven-ios-development-swift
• How we met - The Best Table View Controller - http://swiftandpainless.com/the-best-table-view-controller-mar-2016-edition/
• GitHub - https://github.com/dasdom
• Open Source iOS Apps - https://github.com/dasdom/open-source-ios-apps
• Cocoa Controls - https://www.cocoacontrols.com

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10: Jasdev Singh - Tumblr Core Team iOS Engineer

Jasdev (pronounced JustDave) is an iOS Engineer on the Core Team at Tumblr in New York. He runs @PublicExtension and is a Swift Ninja. Enjoy!

Links:

• How we met - http://jasdev.me/when-to-use-nonobjc
• Compiler Optimization Article - http://irace.me/swift-profiling
• @Jasdev - https://twitter.com/jasdev
• @PublicExtension - https://twitter.com/publicextension
• Jasdev & Recurse Center - http://jasdev.me/one-month-at-recurse-center
• CodePath - https://codepath.com

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9: Don Bora - Eight Bit Studios & Mobile Makers Co-Founder

Don is the Co-Founder of Eight Bit Studios, an end-to-end design and development firm based in Chicago, Illinois, as well as the Co-Founder of Mobile Makers, a mobile development boot camp with cohorts in Chicago and San Francisco.

Links:

• Eight Bit Studios - http://eightbitstudios.com
• Mobile Makers - http://mobilemakers.co
• Girls Make Better Coders Article - https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2016/feb/12/women-considered-better-coders-hide-gender-github

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8: Your Humble Host

From Lawyer to Uber Driver to SwiftCoder.

Links:

Getting Started Guide - http://learnswiftla.com/guide/

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7: Ed Arenberg - Founder & Principal Developer at EPage

From Aerospace to early web classifieds to full-stack mobile developer, Ed is a staple in the Los Angeles Apple Developer community. He's been building with Swift since day one and when he's not creating apps for his enterprise clients, he's teaching the next generation of iOS Developers at General Assembly.

Links:

• Site - GetGaggle.com
• App - ComicBlitz
• App - Get Connected! Nature Connects®: Art Exhibit with LEGO® Bricks
• Site - Nature Connects® – Art with LEGO® Bricks Exhibit
• Email - arenberg@epage.com
• Site - GA Courses

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6: Juan Moreno - Former Amazon Engineer Turned Startup Founder

From CUNY to IBM, Amazon, and now building apps in Swift.

• Juan on GitHub
• Email: juan@redroma.tech
• SwiftCoders LA Meet Up
  • Recorded Live Stream
  • Code on GitHub

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5: Garo Hussenjian - Senior iOS Engineer at TigerText

From Biophysics at UC Berkeley, to building his own web consulting company, to iOS Developer at TigerText.

Links:

• PolyRhythms
• MoodKit - Mood Improvement Tools
• TigerText Secure Messaging for Business
• Seven Swift Snares & How to Avoid Them
• Swift.Org - Contributing Code
• Garo on Twitter and GitHub - @GaroHussenjian
• Moopon - by Learn Swift LA member Mark Sim

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4: Michael Sacks - From Bootcamp to Indie iOS Dev

Alumnus and Mentor from DevMountain bootcamp, and Independent iOS Developer with 3 published apps.

Links:

• Michael Sacks on the App Store
• DevMountain Bootcamp
• michaelsacks@gmail.com

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3: Yariv Nissim - Senior iOS Developer at TRUECar

Senior iOS Developer at TRUECar, and co-host of Learn Swift LA and SwiftCoders LA.

Links:

• Yariv on Twitter - @Yar1vn
• Recent Tweet
• PrepareForSegue using closure
• SwiftCoders LA meet up event: Delegation, NSNotificationCente­r and Closures
• Argo - JSON Parser by ThoughtBot

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2: Will Ha - Lawyer Turned iOS Developer

Lawyer turned iOS Developer. Will Ha is a developer at the Southern California based consulting company, Lolay where they primarily focus on mobile development. He's also the author of Quit Law and Code, and he just released his indie app, Polyline which is 99% in Swift! 

Links:

• WilliamHa.com
• Will@QuitLawAndCode.com
• Will on Twitter - @burritofanatic
• Lolay - http://lolay.com/
• QuitLawAndCode.com (Use the promo code "SwiftCoders" at check out via Gumroad and get $5 off (~50% off) your purchase)
• A Letter to Law Students
• The Polyline App on the App Store
• The Complete Guide to Understanding Swift Optionals
• Printful

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1: Alex Tamoykin - Have No Fear

Founder & CEO of The Right Balance, Open Source Contributor, Mentor, Speaker, Book Author, and Host of CocoaHeads LA.

Links:

• Alex on Twitter: @fsproru
• The Right Balance
• Book: Start Programming Now
• Slides: Starting a New App in Swift

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