Objective-C U L8R: A Swift Transition / Type-Safe Request Routing in Swift

This month, Fuzz Productions (https://fuzzproductions.com) will be hosting us at their building in Williamsburg. They will be providing pizza, beer and non-alcoholic beverages.

Lessons Learned from Building Type-Safe Request Routing in Swift

Since the announcement of the open sourcing of Swift at WWDC and the promise of Linux support, developers have been working on building web frameworks for Swift. In this talk, Grant Butler takes on one portion of a web framework, request routing, by leveraging Swift’s powerful type system. He’ll also touch upon some of the work arounds and tricks he discovered while building this web framework component.

Bio: Grant Butler (https://twitter.com/grantjbutler) is an iOS developer at The New York Times. He currently writes Objective-C and Swift for the Crossword app for iPhone and iPad, and previously worked on NYT Now, an aggregate news app with the most important stories of the day.

Objective-C U L8R: A Swift Transition

As a mobile agency, Prolific Interactive builds and maintains many apps at once. Since the introduction of Swift 2, they've launched 5 greenfield projects entirely in Swift, integrated it into the rest of their legacy code, and launched several open source projects. In this talk, Paul Miard will be showing off what they've learned about bringing a team up to speed, getting stakeholders on board, and writing production-quality code in a brand new language.

Bio: Paul Miard (https://twitter.com/paulmiard) is the Lead iOS Engineer at Prolific Interactive (http://prolificinteractive.com). In his three years at the company, he's worked on apps for a variety of major brands, as well as leading iOS standards and practices initiatives for the team.