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4: We did talk about Core Data!

On this episode, Kevin throws in a big announcement, followed by a group discussion on Swift’s nil coalescing operator and the common applications of Core Data.

Audio

https://dropbox.dzombak.com/cloud/code-optional/codeoptional004.mp3

Show notes

• Quick shout out to Nutshell, an awesome start-up that's building a modern cloud-based CRM
• The “what what”, nil coalescing operator (Docs)
• Other Swift optional sugar: Optional chaining
• Changes in the Swift standard library for beta 5
• CloudKit
• Fetched Properties; Useful?
• Kevin’s seriously singleton gist
• Core Data
  • Apple’s Introduction to Core Data Programming Guide
  • UIKonf, Matthew Morey on High Perf CoreData
  • MagicalRecord – an ActiveRecord-style Core Data library
• Non-Core Data
  • FMDB – the best way to use SQLite from Objective-C
  • YapDatabase – a “key/value store and MUCH MORE”
  • FCModel – An alternative to Core Data for people who like having direct SQL access.
  • Mantle – a Cocoa model framework that’s especially designed to work in tandem with an HTTP API (note, it can be used with Core Data)
• Core Data Concurrency: Core Data Programming Guide and objc.io post
• [SOLID](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SOLID_(object-oriented_design) (object-oriented design)
  • Dependency inversion principle
  • Massive View Controllers
• NSCoders Facebook group
• Conflict-free replicated data types
• Contact us
  • @andrewa2
  • @vitalekj
  • @cdzombak