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Dec 13, 2015

UIAlertView in Swift closures

UIAlertView has been deprecated in iOS 8.0 in favour of UIAlertController — but one still needs UIAlertView if iOS 7 support is required.

Using UIAlertViewDelegate is a bit cumbersome and whilst lots of Objective-C implementation with blocks are…

Paul Ardeleanu in Paul Ardeleanu’s Blog

Dec 8, 2015

My tips for when speaking at a conference

[reposted - originally published: Sep 2015]

I’ve attended iOSDevUK last week (amazing conference BTW, do not miss it next year) and whilst speakers were mostly great, there were lots of “silly” things that made me giggle and/or mad.

Paul Ardeleanu in Paul Ardeleanu’s Blog

Dec 8, 2015

Credentials storage — simple and secure

Credentials storage is a must for most projects — in this example I’ve used Daniel Tomlinson’s Swift keychain wrapper, Latch, to store and retrieve a username and password combination.

Paul Ardeleanu in Paul Ardeleanu’s Blog

Dec 10, 2015

Why we’re building NEXTFREE — a simple tool designed to help freelancers and contractors share their availability

Guest post by James McQuarrie

Paul Ardeleanu in Paul Ardeleanu’s Blog

Dec 8, 2015

GitHub Cheat Sheet

A collection of cool hidden and not so hidden features of Git and GitHub.

Some of the ones I like in particular:

Syntax highlighting in Markdown files: https://github.com/tiimgreen/github-cheat-sheet#syntax-highlighting-in-markdown-files

Paul Ardeleanu in Paul Ardeleanu’s Blog

Nov 26, 2015

Developers’ Emergency Guide to Public Speaking

The video of my Latest talk: “Developers’ Emergency Guide to Public Speaking” is now available on Vimeo:

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Dec 22, 2015

How NEXTFREE works for Freelancers

Guest post by James McQuarrie

For the past couple of months myself (James McQuarrie) and fellow freelancer Paul Ardeleanu have been working on designing and building a new tool for freelancers, contractors and independent consultants.

Paul Ardeleanu in Paul Ardeleanu’s Blog

Nov 22, 2015

Must see: Jeff Bezos on the Future of Amazon (1999)

Jeff Bezos on the Future of Amazon and Selling E-Books Online — Customer Experience (1999) — YouTube

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4mECzF83_ns

Paul Ardeleanu in Paul Ardeleanu’s Blog

Feb 27, 2015

NSUUID().toString

A simple extension on NSUUID to provide a toString alias for UUIDString

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