Emerging Best Practices in Swift

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Swift Emerging Best Practices in Ash Furrow

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Crave Beginners Rules

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How do we ﬁnd new ones? Best practices

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Agenda 1. Learning is necessary, but not sufﬁcient 2. Like coding, learning is a skill that can be reﬁned 3. Being awesome is actually pretty banal

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Necessary Insufﬁcient but

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Job Description • Learning is a part of your job description • If it’s not, you’re being cheated

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Whole We are all part of a

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What good are nifty coding tricks if you can't show them off to anyone?” –Jeff Atwood “

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New best practices New Ideas

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Every act of creation is ﬁrst an act of destruction.” –Pablo Picasso “

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Improving Ideas • There are very rarely new ideas • Invention is not enough • We should look for ideas that are new to us

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Improving Ideas • Embrace the new • But never throw away what you know • You can have preferences! • And your preferences can change!

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Learning can be learned

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Skillful Learning • Learning is a skill, like any other • It can be learned, practiced, reﬁned

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How to Learn • Seek out new ideas • Ideas you disagree with • Try things you think will fail

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Finding New Ideas • Open source code • Blog posts, books, podcasts, screencasts, conferences, etc • Newsletters make these easier • Follow people on Twitter (people who are not iOS developers)

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Don’t Dismiss • Never dismiss an idea or a person • People will stop talking to you, ya jerk! • People are allowed to disagree with you

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Discovering “Best Practices” • You’ll know it when you see it • It is a feeling, an intuition • This happens with experience

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Discovering “Best Practices” • Ask yourself why this? • Write your answer down • Collect your answers, and form principles • Reﬂect on them • Everyone’s are different

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Using Principles • Use principles to evaluate new ideas • Not “is this useful?” but rather “when would this be useful?” • Use principles to get better at evaluating ideas • Reﬁne principles over time

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The banality of Awesome

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Use the System Buddy

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KPIs Write down some

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• Speciﬁc • Measurable • Achievable • Relevant • Time-bound SMART Goals

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Speciﬁc • “Read 10 blog posts.” • “Try one new library.” • “Open source a playground.” • “Give a lunch-and-learn.” • “Read a book.”

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Measurable • How will you know when you’ve accomplished a goal? • Make a “deﬁnition of done”

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Achievable • Be realistic, but ambitious • Remember, this is a part of your job – take it seriously

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Relevant • Everything is relevant ¯\_(ツ)_/¯ • Just reﬂect on what you’ve learned

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Time-Bound • We need deadlines • Use Google Calendar with reminders • Set up recurring events to meet & discuss progress

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Wrap Up 1. Learning is a part of our job 2. It’s not easy, and it’s not comfortable 3. So we need to hold ourselves accountable