I attended The Swift Alps in November 2016, an experimental conference that the organisers of App Builders wanted to make together with some of its speakers. The goals revolved around three main concepts: experimenting, broadcasting and socialising.
What follows is an edited transcript of a talk I gave at App Builders Zürich in July 2016. I have arranged the content in a different way and omitted some parts to make the written version more coherent. The slides are also available in PDF.
“Why Scrum Should Basically Just Die In A Fire” is the title of an article written by Giles Bowkett that caught my attention a few months ago. Among all the topics discussed, he suggests that the Agile Manifesto principle about face-to-face communication “might be to blame” for inspiring Scrum’s daily stand-up.
I started using GitFlow more or less two years after Vincent Driessen introduced his proposal in 2010. Since then, there has been many times in which either me or another fellow developer has faced some issues with it.
A lot of attention was brought into functional programming when Swift was announced in WWDC 2014. That wasn’t really new. Bringing these concepts to your day-to-day programming has been a trend in general. But within the Apple ecosystem in particular, Swift made everyone take it more seriously.