I'm a Berlin-based iOS and Ruby on Rails developer working for nerdgeschoss. I'm obsessed with application architecture and maintainable code bases in Swift and Ruby on Rails.
We've all heard the 'Rails can't scale' myth, but how far can we scale Rails? This is a story about a one year project scaling a REST API for concert ticketing and e-commerce to huge presale events and the lessons learned on the way.
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Nowadays, the news is full of data leaks, breaks, and hacks and one thing is clear - you don’t want to be the one who leaks all your customer data to some hackers on the internet. Learn how to encrypt your content end-to-end with Rails and PGP
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Swift 4 finally contains a mechanism for easy serialization. This talk explores the basics of Codables.
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Hooray, open source Swift finally arrived on Linux in December. Let's see how easy it is to use Swift for your backend and why Swift is a good choice for safe and fast development.
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Storyboards have grown in functionality over recent years and have become a great
tool for prototyping your next app idea.
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Learn what Reactive Programming means, why it doesn’t have to be functional and why everyone is so excited about the ideas behind it.
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Learn in this workshop what Reactive Programming means, why it doesn’t have to be functional and why everyone is so excited about the ideas behind it.
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Learn what Reactive Programming means, why it doesn’t have to be functional and why everyone is so excited about the ideas behind it.
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See how reactive programming can make your code shorter, easier to read and more elegant with the next major version of the Interstellar framework.
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Not sure if you should order a burrito or a monad for lunch? Get a quick overview of Object Oriented, Functional and Protocol Oriented programming in Swift 2 and learn what all that fuss is about and why you should care. (Talk from Mobilization 2015 in Lodz)
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Over time almost all css projects turn into a mess of selectors and strange sizing. Here is my approach of dealing with it.
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Servers aren't a magical black box - they're just programs spitting out http responses. Let's have a look how a usual server infrastructure works.
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Signals aren't just only great for handling model state - you can use them as well to plan your applications' flow.
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Multithreading can be hard - let's make it a bit easier by using signals.
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We've already seen how to handle a chain of failable, synchronous function
calls. Next up we explore the missing piece: Async callbacks.
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During UIKonf 2015 I gave a talk about how to implement your own
ReactiveCocoa using ideas from Swift like generics and value types.
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Let's put all the previous stuff together to achieve our goal: Chaining
synchronous transforms with error handling unix style.
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If you ask a developer what a program is he is likely to respond: A sequence of commands. Value oriented programming takes a step back and lays the focus on something different: The content of your application instead of the actual commands.
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Handling errors is something most developers try to avoid. But error handling got way more important on mobile devices where the user constantly switches apps, the network connection drops in the middle of a transfer or the application is terminated by memory pressure.
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Last week I've attended UIKonf. One of the amazing speakers there was Ash Furrow who talked about Teaching and Learning and how this experience helped him. In the end he had a taks for everyone in the audience: Start a blog.
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