Author: Joe

Editor’s Note: This post has been updated as of September 13, 2016 to reflect the official release of Swift 3.0. ...

Back in December I opened an enhancement request in the Swift JIRA site, issue SR-353, to add an npm init-style ...

Gists are a popular method of providing code snippets to the community. These snippets frequently express complete implementations of an ...

A number of frameworks and packages on Github make use of “badges” in their README files to document various attributes ...

Shortly after Apple released Swift a number of folks provided logging libraries, as the venerable Lumberjack didn’t work out of ...

Working with open source developers worldwide is a fun and rewarding experience. As the cost of computing devices and broadband ...

Ncurses is a toolkit for developing “GUI-like” application software that runs under a terminal emulator. If you aren’t familiar with ...

Update: Folks have figured out how to use sigaction which is the preferred way of catching a signal. Jump down ...

A long time ago in a galaxy far, far away, software developers wrote client-server applications with TCP/IP sockets. That was ...

String handling in Swift has been a moving target. While following the evolution of performing certain string operations in Swift, ...