Setting up Ubuntu – Getting Ready for Server Side Swift

So this is going to be a quick step by step tutorial on the steps that I took setting up Ubuntu inside of VirtualBox on my Macbook Pro. Before we get started make sure you have VirtualBox Installed. You can get a copy here. While you are installing VirtualBox you will want to download a …

Catching the Bug… Server Side Swift

In my opinion Swift is an extremely exciting and powerful language so like many others I was excited when I heard Apple’s decision to Open Source Swift and even more when a Linux compatible version of Swift was released. Writing apps for different platforms with Swift sounded exciting but what immediately started running through my mind was …

Protocols and Delegates and Swift, oh My!

Many years ago when I was learning Objective-C my initial impression of protocols and delegates was one of confusion. When I first started reading and learning about them and their idea I was expecting something hard to totally comprehend and most likely difficult to implement. Very shortly however I began to realize that it was neither. …