Rewriting the Tumblr app in Swift

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This month we'll be hearing from 3 Engineers about their experience rewriting the Tumblr app in Swift. The evening will consist of two 15 minute talks followed by one 30 minute talk. Tumblr has graciously offered to host us at their Flatiron office. Doors open @ 6:30; Pizza, Beer, and non-alcoholic beverages will be provided.

Deep Dive Into Networking in Swift
Swift has a bunch of cool features that can make networking a lot easier, more expressive, and safer than in Objective-C. Learn about how Tumblr embraced Swift in our networking code and about the architecture of our new networking library.

Kenny Ackerson (https://twitter.com/pearapps) is an engineer at Tumblr.

Rapid View Prototyping Using FBSnapshotTestCase

FBSnapshotTestCase is a powerful tool that was built to unit test the visual appearance of UIViews, but that’s not all it can do. This talk will explore how you can leverage FBSnapshotTestCase to simulate the visual feedback of Interface Builder when programmatically laying out views.

Paul Rehkugler (https://twitter.com/paulrehkugler)is a Senior iOS Engineer at Tumblr. When he’s not writing software, he’s probably hiking or playing guitar.

Hidden Gems in Swift
Since starting the Twitter account @PublicExtension (https://twitter.com/publicextension) this past October, Jasdev has collected a bunch of handy patterns, extensions, and uses of language features that aren't particularly well-known. In this talk, he'll go over them to help you level up your Swift knowledge!

Jasdev Singh (https://twitter.com/jasdev) is currently an iOS engineer on the Core team at Tumblr. He's previously worked at Imgur, where he helped build their API and iOS app! In his free time, he forms habits and follows way too many corgi accounts on Instagram.