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Swift Optionals for the Objective-C Developer

This is Part 1 of a series of articles advocating Swift to the often stubborn Objective-C developer.

Some time has passed since WWDC 2014 and the reveal of the Swift programming language. The hype has settled and most of us have gotten on with our lives continuing to write our code in Objective-C, toying with Swift in our free time or using it for small modules within our production code. There have indeed been some early adopters writing new apps from scratch in the language, but I imagine that has more to do with the ability to announce the fact rather than any benefit to the programmer or business. After quite some fanfare, nothing has really changed.

I believe this is a good thing. Objective-C has been validated as a production-ready programming language for decades. Swift... not so much. It was necessary for Apple to release Swift when they did in order to garner the interest of the community and incorporate feedback. Creating a programming language i

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//
//  FunctionPointer.h
//  AudioServicesTest
//
//  Created by Julius Parishy on 11/9/14.
//  Copyright (c) 2014 Julius Parishy. All rights reserved.
//

#import <Foundation/Foundation.h>
#import <AudioToolbox/AudioToolbox.h>

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- (void)configureInvertedRoundedRectMaskForView:(UIView *)view
{
    const CGFloat cornerRadius = 5.0f;
    const CGRect rect = CGRectInset(view.bounds, 10.0f, 0.0f);
    
    UIBezierPath *rectPath = [UIBezierPath bezierPathWithRect:view.bounds];
    
    UIBezierPath *roundedRectPath = [UIBezierPath bezierPathWithRoundedRect:rect cornerRadius:cornerRadius];
    [rectPath appendPath:roundedRectPath];
    

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@implementation UIView (LECommonLayoutConstraints)

- (void)le_addContraintsForFilledView:(UIView *)view insets:(UIEdgeInsets)insets
{
    NSDictionary *metrics = @{
        @"left" : @(insets.left),
        @"top" : @(insets.top),
        @"right" : @(insets.right),
        @"bottom" : @(insets.bottom)
    };

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#if DEBUG
#define UIViewSetLayoutDebuggingIdentifier(view, identifier) \
    [view setValue:identifier forKey:@"_layoutDebuggingIdentifier"]
#else
#define UIViewSetLayoutDebuggingIdentifier(view, identifier)
#endif

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//
//  main.swift
//  SwiftData
//
//  Created by Julius Parishy on 8/20/14.
//  Copyright (c) 2014 le. All rights reserved.
//

import Foundation
import CoreData

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        /*
        data.json
        [
            {
                "name": {
                    "first": "Julius",
                    "last": "Parishy"
                },
                "hobbies": [
                    "programming",

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chrome.commands.onCommand.addListener(function(command) {

	chrome.tabs.query({active: true, currentWindow: true}, function(tabs) {
		
		var current = tabs[0];
		var url = current.url;
		var ext = url.substring(url.lastIndexOf("."));

		if(ext === ".h")

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require 'sinatra'
require 'RMagick'

def delay(fps)
  (100.0 / fps) 
end

post '/gifify' do
  content_type "image/gif"

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//
//  main.m
//  FSEventsTest
//
//  Created by Julius Parishy on 8/20/13.
//  Copyright (c) 2013 Fitocracy. All rights reserved.
//

#import <Foundation/Foundation.h>