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XcodeJobs v2

Feb 01, 2017

In 2012, when I had been working full time in iOS development for 2 years, I used to frequently see tweets about companies looking for Apple developers. This is why I established the @XcodeJobs twitter account because I felt it would make most sense to retweet those job offers with a dedicated channel.

My thinking was that if you were looking for your next iOS gig you would just follow this channel and – once you found it – you could simply unfollow it. At the same time I wouldn’t spam people who are not looking for a job with these job offers.

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PSA: Xcode hanging opening projects

Jan 21, 2017

There is bug in Xcode 8 that has not yet been fixed as of Xcode 8.2.1. If you running macOS Sierra you might find that Xcode hangs if you try to open a project, for example via Finder or the open command. The original bug report was filed as rdar://29319747 which mine was closed as a duplicate of.

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The Exclamation Function

Jan 21, 2017

Four months ago, I reported a scenario where LLVM would crash with a segmentation fault. A later Xcode version fixed the LLVM crash, but now the crash would occur during runtime. This surprised me: Why would it be valid syntax accepted by the compiler, yet crash during execution?

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Use Legacy Swift Language Version

Dec 16, 2016

There is a bug in Xcode 8.2 that – after upgrading to this version – it is no longer able to build your project. The build error message is:

Use Legacy Swift Language Version” (SWIFT_VERSION) is required to be configured correctly for targets which use Swift.

We saw this in projects where we are not using any legacy Swift, i.e. everything is Swift 3. Also there is a project-wide setting to NOT use legacy Swift. The new bug seems to ignore the project-setting.

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POEditorAPI 1.1.0

Dec 10, 2016

In the month since the initial release of  the POEditor.com API and command line utility, I did some refinements which become necessary to support ongoing development projects. Generally speaking you should use the poet tool without parameters to refresh your strings files.

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Introducing the POEditor.com API and Tool

Nov 08, 2016

If you want to be successful in international markets you need to localize your app in as many languages as you can. For iWoman we use POEditor.com. As the number of localization grows it becomes increasingly time-consuming to update all localizations in your Xcode project, let alone deal with plurals which are not supported in the XLIFF format.

Today I am showing off, how I got the update process to be a matter of seconds. I achieved this by writing a POEditor.com API and building a command line tool – I call POET (for POEditor Tool) which greatly simplifies the update process.

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DTCoreText 1.6.19

Oct 11, 2016

Hot on the heels of the previous release for DTCoreText this update hot-fixes several issues which were introduced in the previous release.

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DTCoreText 1.6.18

Sep 30, 2016

Since the prior release of DTCoreText, 9 months ago, a few issues became apparent with Xcode 8. Some people contributed cool stuff like support for use in app extensions as well as tvOS support.

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Bug: NSCollectionView Move Sections Crash

Sep 28, 2016

We are so foolhardy that we are using NSCollectionView in an internal project that gets widely used by an enterprise client of ours. We found this latest crashing bug while updating the application for macOS 10.12 wich is where the issue first appeared.

The only workaround at this time is to remove animation via animator() and replace it with a reloadData. Thus we vote NSCollectionView for worst Apple API on macOS.

This bug is filed as rdar://28337446 and on Open Radar.

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DTFoundation 1.7.11

Sep 26, 2016

With the prior update to DTFoundation having been 5 months ago, there were two main areas where some tweaks were necessary: support for tvOS and fixing a build error on Xcode 8.

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