Swift London | Talks

HELLO,
WELCOME TO THE TALKS.

REGISTRATION

We ask that, after registering your attendance here, you take a moment to sign in as attending (https://skillsmatter.com/meetups/6529-swift-london-october-talks) on the venue's event page. They kindly provide us with the space for free, including staff, security, equipment setup and hot drinks. To return the favour, that's the little they ask.

FORMAT

We start with a series of shorter talks including questions, followed by a break. We reconvene for one or two slightly longer talks. RSVPs typically open on the Monday two weeks before (the evening of our Hands On event) — watch Twitter (https://www.twitter.com/swiftLDN) for announcements.

Doors open at 6.30pm, but do come down earlier to chat if you want. Tea and biscuits ready.

Talks start at 7pm!

THIS EVENT, WE PRESENT

In order of appearance

Aral BalkanSwift: past, present, and future

Technologies don’t exist in a vacuum. In this talk, Aral will put Swift in historical context alongside C, C++, and Objective-C and explore possible future trajectories for how Swift can evolve and what role independent technology might play in this.

Aral Balkan (https://aralbalkan.com) is founder and lead designer of Ind.ie (https://ind.ie) — the independent technology initiative. He works on creating independent technologies that protect individual freedoms, human rights, and democracy.

To learn more about him and his work, watch his RSA talk, Free is a Lie (https://aralbalkan.com), and the longer version, I, Simulation (http://thelink.is/i-simulation) that he initially presented as this year’s Huxley debate at the British Science Festival.

Twitter @aral (https://twitter.com/aral)
Site aralbalkan.com (https://aralbalkan.com)| ind.ie (https://ind.ie/)

Joseph LordSwifter Swift

Tips and tricks for making your Swift code fly, with a live demo of the differences that a little bit of optimisation can make.

Joseph studied Computer Science at Cambridge University and since then worked at the BBC and Sony for about five years each before starting his own company Human Friendly Ltd. about 3 years ago and starting iOS development (and some Ruby and Rails too). He is currently looking for new exciting opportunities and available for employment, contracting or coaching in iOS (Objective-C or Swift). He has been playing with Swift and writing about it since it was announced.

Twitter @jl_hflEmail joseph@human-friendly.com
Blog http://blog.human-friendly.com

Colin EberhardtReactiveCocoa and Swift, Better Together

ReactiveCocoa is an elegant framework that radically changes the way we structure our applications and handle flows of data. However, it's beauty is somewhat marred by Objective-C!

In this talk Colin will cover the basics of ReactiveCocoa and the principles of Functional Reactive Programming. Through simple practical examples he will show how ReactiveCocoa and Swift form a beautiful partnership.

Colin is CTO of ShinobiControls (www.shinobicontrols.com (http://www.shinobicontrols.com/)) and has been a prolific writer and presenter on Swift. Aside from his own posts, he has been a major contributor to, among others, the Ray Wenderlich Swift Tutorial series, co-writing Swift by Tutorials with Matt Galloway.

Twitter @ColinEberhardt Blog scottlogic.co.uk/blog/colin (http://scottlogic.co.uk/blog/colin/)

Marius RackwitzCocoaPods: Pioneering Swift

We have got used to the convenience of a Cocoa dependency manager. Then Apple introduced Dynamic Frameworks on iOS and never gave support for Static Libraries with Swift. While we are still able to consume Objective-C Pods from our Swift apps, we can't bring the new convenient language to our existing and growing iOS applications without getting hands-on to Xcode's build settings and wasting time setting up our various third-party dependencies on our own. Time to fix that!

Marius is CTO of paij (http://www.paij.com), and recently joined the CocoaPods (http://cocoapods.org) team as Core Member, where he is amongst other things pioneering Swift and Framework support. Aside that he is an active OSS contributor, a passionate Ruby & mobile developer and exploring the borders of Swift since it was announced.

Twitter: @mrackwitz (https://twitter.com/mrackwitz)
Site: paij.com (http://www.paij.com)

SPEAK AT SWIFT LONDON

We usually have four speaker slots to fill.

Three of 10 minutes + 5 minutes Q&A
One of 20-30 minutes + 10 minutes Q&A

For one, a woman speaker will be given priority.

Volunteer for a talk: Twitter (https://www.twitter.com/swiftLDN) | Email (helloswiftlondon@gmail.com)

CODE OF CONDUCT

While at the meetup (and hopefully in your life outside), all attendees are asked to behave respectfully in accordance with our CODE OF CONDUCT (https://www.meetup.com/swiftlondon/pages/Code_of_Conduct_%7C_Safe_Spaces).

In short, be nice, be respectful, consider others.