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Swift Lessons
As I wrote in my last post, I've been learning Swift. This has been interesting. Chris Lattner and his team have been working on Swift for years and have done something that is amazing. Not only have I learned a bit about programming in Swift, I've learned a few things about using Swift.
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Learning Swift
When Apple announced Swift at WWDC, I knew that if I was going to keep up with the youngsters, I had to learn Swift. Unfortunately it has been a long time since I learned a new language; I learned Objective-C in 2000, I think. While I am capable of learning, finding the time to learn it and use it are getting harder and harder. However, I know that I didn't have a choice.
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Time Flies - 20 years in mobile
It dawned on me yesterday that I've passed 2 milestones in my career. The first is that I've now been writing mobile applications for 20 years. Yes, there was mobile way before the iPhone and Android! I started writing mobile applications my senior year in college when Apple sent me a Newton MessagePad in exchange for licenses of my NotifyMail program. I sometimes think about all the changes in this industry and it just makes my head hurt! Development 20 years ago was generally not treated as a hobby due to cost; today, anyone can write an app with no skill (not sure if that is good or bad).
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Giving up on Xcode Server
Several weeks ago, I started having problems with my media center where recorded shows started stuttering in playback. There were a huge number of variables that could have caused it as lots of things changed, like an update to EyeTV, update to my HDHomeRun, Xcode update, OS X Server update, etc. While I'm still trying to identify the cause, I think I've narrowed down the problem to Xcode and Xcode Server.