My Personal Best of Show CES 2018 goes to Chuck Joiner & MacVoice webcast.

MacVoices has posted a series of video interviews showing the other little vendors of CES, who have the products you never hear about but would enjoy.  Thanks Chuck! 

http://www.macvoices.com

Use MaonMotion to enhance AR & VR with better hand controls

ManoMotion provides a framework for real- time 3D gestural analysis (iOS, Android, Unity & more).

https://www.manomotion.com

Apple quietly slipped ARKit 1.5 improvements into iOS 11.3 beta.

The new ARKit allows virtual objects on vertical walls, high Res video camera use and support for Face Tracking.

https://developer.apple.com/arkit/

Glasses that don't just film what you see, but films all around you for VR Video!

At CES, Orbi Prime demoed the perfect device for recording 360 degree VR scenes.

https://www.cnet.com/news/orbi-prime-360-degree-camera-glasses-ces/

Great article from Hacking with Swift series on Swift 4.1 improvements

Paul Hudson explains features like auto synthesized Equatable & Hashable protocols, conditional conformance, the new (sort of) compactMap, and finally links to a list of proposals for Swift 5.

https://www.hackingwithswift.com/articles/50/whats-new-in-swift-4-1

Comprehensive list of iOS & Android conferences for 2018.

Bugfender has created a list of every conference a mobile developer would want to attend!

https://bugfender.com/conferences/

Apple release Swift Playground 2.0

Swift Playground 2.0 for iPad includes support for 3rd Party Subscriptions so users version of a playground will be updated with new improvements.

http://appleinsider.com/articles/18/01/24/apple-releases-swift-playgrounds-20-with-playground-subscription-options-more

ATT wants Federal Laws in favor of Net Neutrality & Privacy Rights.

I could stand up and cheer for them! 

http://money.cnn.com/2018/01/24/technology/business/att-net-neutrality/index.html

Advanced gesture definitions for VR using Leap Motion

Two VR experts from Leap Motions break down how they developed fine-tuned motions for Selection, Summoning, Holding, Returning and other interactions.

https://www.roadtovr.com/exclusive-summoning-superpowers-designing-vr-interactions-at-a-distance/

Document Based iOS App SDKs explained

The difference between desktop Mac and mobile iOS has been getting smaller and smaller.  Brian Moakley shows how to open documents created by others.

https://videos.raywenderlich.com/screencasts/1263-document-based-apps-opening-files-from-other-apps

3DRudder provides a foot powered Joystick for VR

Demoed at CES, you use your feet to tilt in direction of movment. I think this might solves some of the issues with motion sickness in VR.

https://www.3drudder.com

One advice from me to new CS Students, learn to studying Design Patterns.

It is a bit long, but Allen Holub explains what Design Patterns are, and why they are important.

https://www.oreilly.com/ideas/what-is-a-design-pattern

Microsoft announced Office core code is now share across platforms

This is a huge win for cross platform compatibility as well as maintenance.  Now all versions of the app have the same shared common logic.

http://www.zdnet.com/article/microsoft-aligns-its-different-office-code-bases-as-of-the-latest-mac-office-release/

The Classic Dijkstra’s Algorithm written in Swift

Federico Zanetello creates a Swift version of Dijkstra’s Algorithm for Pathfinding within the GameKit.

https://medium.com/swiftly-swift/the-right-way-to-write-dijkstras-algorithm-in-swift-abb14ce66b00

Swift Enums are more then just simple constants.

Benedikt Terhecture does an outstanding job explaining how Swift Enums are different. He gives advances usages, uses cases & limitations. 

https://appventure.me/2015/10/17/advanced-practical-enum-examples/

An explanation of how to organize Protocols under Swift.

Jesse Squires does an excellent job of breaking down the options in using Optional Protocols, and what he feels is the best approach.

https://www.jessesquires.com/blog/protocol-composition-in-swift-and-objc/

Tomorrows "Coder Only" talk on Swift Closures

Hosted by Capital One, and presented by Yours Truly. Please come join us! 

https://www.meetup.com/modevdc/events/246402560/

Toyota explores possibilities of the e-Palette at CES

It is a Mobility Services Platform (MSPF), basically an autonomous, electric vehicle, that can be people mover or a parcel delivery system. And Toyota wants help creating it!

https://www.engadget.com/2018/01/12/toyota-epalette-electric-autonomous-interview/

iOS 11 Swift Programming Cookbook updated.

O'Reilly popular Swift Programming Cookbook has been updated for iOS 11, including features i Swift 4, XCode 9, new security SDK, and other topics. I think it is worth using.

http://shop.oreilly.com/product/0636920089452.do

Engadget has one of the best lists for "Best of CES 2018"

I find it interesting that several of the Best of the Best deal with Health and Fitness.

https://www.engadget.com/2018/01/11/best-of-ces-2018-winners/

Implementing OAuth on an iPhone was once hard, now it isn’t.

Here is another great article from RayWenderlich.com; Own Brown & Corinne Krych explains in detail how to use two different OAuth 2.0 libraries for the iOS.

https://www.raywenderlich.com/177597/oauth-2-0-swift-tutorial

Vive announcements at CES are exactly what we wanted!

An new more powerful VIVE Pro system, wireless VIVE adapter & a improved VIVE Video steam shows they know what we wanted, and will deliver.

https://blog.vive.com/us/2018/01/08/htc-vive-raises-bar-premium-vr-new-vive-pro-upgrade-wireless-vive-adaptor/

"This Week in Swift" by @NatashaTheRobot is ending

I am sad to see her wonderful developer blog ending it's 3 year run. 

https://www.natashatherobot.com/ending-this-week-in-swift/

Ever App Developer should read this before Submitting to Apple.

Cory Bohon of Martian Craft lists 7 reasons iOS App are rejected by Apple.

http://martiancraft.com/blog/2017/12/app-rejection/

Alexa, coming to a Smartwatch near you!

Amazon is pushing to make it easier for gadget manufactures to access Alexa and Google Services.

http://money.cnn.com/2018/01/05/technology/alexa-headphones-smartwatches/index.html

Keeping up with Xcode 9

Brian Moakley from raywenderlich.com provides informative two videos on what is new with Xcode 9. 

https://videos.raywenderlich.com/courses/111-what-s-new-in-xcode-9/lessons/1

Blast from the Past, Apple will release original Lisa code

I can say I was one of handful of engineers assigned to code the Lisa machine (for a never released terminal product). I hope Apple releases better documentation than I got!

https://www.engadget.com/2017/12/27/apple-lisa-code-to-be-available-in-2018/

Watch MacVoice webcast to keep up to date on the Mac!

Apple User Group expert Chuck Joiner has been interviewing the Mac world since 2001, 

http://www.macvoices.com

And the holiday winner is… Apple!

44% of new device activation for Christmas were iPhones & iPads.  Samsung only had 26%, with less brands in single digit.  That is a commanding lead.

https://9to5mac.com/2017/12/27/flurry-iphone-activation-data/

How the Game Industry is Gaming Addicted Players.

A short piece on how mobile games make money of small percentage of users.

http://theweek.com/articles/731592/how-video-game-industry-tricks-players-money

Swift Talk, A weekly video series

For 80+ weeks, ObjC has been doing a weekly video show on different elements of Swift.  All sorted by topic with links to transcripts & related articles & code snippets. Excellent job guys!

https://talk.objc.io