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More fun scripting with Swift and Xcode: Sorting with a closure

How to sort an array of arrays of strings, on the contents of one of those strings, in just 4 lines of Swift.

March 21, 2017 Macs, Technology

More fun scripting with Swift and Xcode: Reading Plists, building popups, and more

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How HelpHelp accesses a large nested Property List files, handles its data as arrays, and uses NSHelpManager.

March 20, 2017 Macs, Technology

Beyond Scripting in Swift: Implementing JSON to CSV conversion

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I’m sure there are more idiomatic or even efficient ways of doing it, but here is how I converted JSON data to CSV output.

March 4, 2017 Macs, Technology

Beyond Scripting in Swift: JSON and the Golden NSDictionary

Making progress with Consolation version 2: working out how to export useful data from JSON log excerpts. A punch-up in the Swift Playground.

March 3, 2017 Macs, Technology

Beyond Scripting in Swift: Preferences

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Using preference files comes with remarkably little effort when writing them in Swift and Xcode.

March 1, 2017 Macs, Technology

Beyond Scripting in Swift: turning Consolation into a full-blown app

I was dreading its conversion from an ordinary Cocoa app into an architecture which supported multiple windows. Would Xcode co-operate?

February 18, 2017 Macs, Technology

Blowhole advanced: writing a command tool in Swift 3, and more

Here’s a tool which lets AppleScript and anything else which can run a shell command make an entry in Sierra’s logs.

February 13, 2017 Macs, Technology

Last Week on my Mac: A Swift breeze blowing

It’s time to think of summer: that means macOS 10.13, APFS, and the future of scripting. Is Swift a suitable language?

February 5, 2017 Macs, Technology

Developing Consolation in Swift 3: mostly a breeze

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How complex is the code needed for an app like Consolation? Most of it is actually straightforward if not simple.

February 3, 2017 Macs, Technology

More fun scripting with Swift and Xcode: Radio buttons and more

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How to implement grouped radio buttons, the benefits of Swift, and an alpha for the fearless.

February 1, 2017 Macs, Technology

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