The team at Lucky Marmot bills Paw as “The Ultimate REST client for Mac” and in my experience with the app so far it lives up to the claim. The app allows you to make HTTP requests, inspect the responses, and even generate code for the requests for a...
Apple surprised the Mac and iOS developer community at WWDC with the announcement of Swift, a new language for developing apps for OS X and iOS. With each beta release of iOS 8, Yosemite, and Xcode 6 the language has been evolving and the community has been quick to...
Last week I came across dweet.io which looks like a great way for simple internet connected devices to publish and share data with interested people, systems, and devices. Sharing publicly is free, and privately is just 99 cents per month, per thing. It’s...
A new mobile database for iOS (Android support coming soon) launched earlier this week called Realm. Given that up to this point your options were SQLite or something built on top of SQLite like Core Data or YapDatabase, it’s kind of a big deal. SQLite is great,...
Synchronization and Core Data in Modern iOS Apps I’m working on an iOS project that synchronizes a lot of data between a web service and an iPad app. We’ve relied on the advice and research in the fantastic issues of objc.io on Core Data and Syncing...