This week, Chris and Soroush discuss techniques for getting started in an unfamiliar codebase.

Swift on the Server framework options:

Vapor

Kitura

Zewo

Perfect

Frank

Sadly limited Vapor documentation

Vapor’s ORM - Fluent

kqueue - the BSD interface that Dispatch is based on

Swifter - Twitter API client in Swift

Vapor toolbox - the CLI tool for working with Vapor

Docker

Sourcery for codegen

Chris and Soroush discuss the improvements in Swift 4.

Protocol 'XYZ' can only be used as a generic constraint because it has Self or associated type requirements. ***Oh no, what now?***

This week, Chris and Soroush talk about Swift's String Manifesto.

This week, Chris and Soroush talk about Swift's String Manifesto.

This week, Soroush and Chris talk about why they'd basically never use Core Data.

This week, Chris and Soroush talk about how they persist data in their apps.

This week, Chris and Soroush talk about how they persist data in their apps.

This week, Soroush and Chris have two very special guests. Erica Gutierrez and Sara Ahmad were part of last year's summer class at Flatiron School. Since then, they've had a lot of trouble landing junior positions at tech firms. Sara and Erica share their frustrations with the hiring and interviewing process over the last year.