Swift London | Talks
- Oct 21, 2014 · 6:30 PM
HELLO,
WELCOME TO THE TALKS.
REGISTRATION
We ask that, after registering your attendance here, you take a moment to sign in as attending 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 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 Balkan
Swift: 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 is founder and lead designer of 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, and the longer version, I, Simulation that he initially presented as this year’s Huxley debate at the British Science Festival.
Twitter @aral
Site aralbalkan.com | ind.ie
Joseph Lord
Swifter 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_hfl
Email [masked]
Blog blog.human-friendly.com
ReactiveCocoa 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) 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
Marius Rackwitz
CocoaPods: 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, and recently joined the CocoaPods 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
Site: 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 | Email
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.
In short, be nice, be respectful, consider others.
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Shams A.
October 21, 2014
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Morgan
The videos are up!
Colin Eberhart, "ReactiveCocoa and Swift, Better Together"
Video http://j.mp/reactswift
Slides http://j.mp/reactswiftslides
Marius Rackwitz, "CocoaPods: Pioneering Swift"Video http://j.mp/pioneeringswift
Slides http://j.mp/pioneeringswiftslides
Joseph Lord, "Swifter Swift"Video http://j.mp/swifterswift
Slides http://j.mp/swifterswiftslides
(we hope Aral Balkan's will follow shortly)1 · October 22, 2014
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Ricardo S.
What's the schedule of the talks? I don't want to miss Aral's but I work until 18:30.
October 20, 2014
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Morgan
Aral has asked to be on first, starting at 7pm. Will that be enough time to make it across?
October 20, 2014
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Robert S.
Hey, just to say this clashes with the Swift Tutorial running as part of Cmd-R conf. Might want to do it on another date?
October 7, 2014
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Morgan
Do you know what time the tutorial finishes? I can't see a detailed schedule on the Cmd-R page.
October 7, 2014
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Pyry J.
Minor correction: The swift-studies.com link isn't pointing where it should.
October 7, 2014
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Morgan
We're opening the RSVPs on the Monday two weeks before. This helps reduce the number who sign up long in advance, but can't make it, and forget to change their RSVP. I'll make a point of advertising the two weeks in advance as a regular thing. Tickets open today :)
October 6, 2014
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am not sure if I can make it... will today presentation be video recorded?