Stealing for Fun and Profit!

Objective-C's a lovely language and Cocoa provides some great frameworks, but there's a ton we can learn from other programming languages and communities. We'll look at how other programming communities solve some common problems and what we can steal from them to make Cocoa development better.

Transcript

1. (Hi there.)
2. STEALING Let’s talk about
5. Josh Abernathy @joshaber
8. Stealing for and FUN PROFIT
9. STEALING:
12. "I will spend my last dying breath if I need to [...]. I'm going to destroy Android, because it's a stolen product."
13. "I will spend my last dying breath if I need to [...]. I'm going to destroy Android, because it's a stolen product." — Steve Jobs
14. "We have always been shameless about stealing great ideas."
15. "We have always been shameless about stealing great ideas." — Steve Jobs
17. "Good artists copy, great artists steal."
18. "Good artists copy, great artists steal." — Picasso
19. "Good artists copy, great artists steal." — Picasso NOPE
20. STEALING:
21. “To use, appropriate, or preempt the use of another's idea, especially to one's own advantage [...]”
23. Why We Should STEAL
24. We’re all in this TOGETHER
25. Stand on the shoulders of GIANTS
26. When we’re not solving problems, we’re WASTING TIME
27. Why We Don’t STEAL
30. NIH (Not Invented Here)
31. NIIC (Not Invented In Cupertino)
32. Culture
33. Tools
34. Trust
35. You can only steal What you know
36. How to STEAL
37. “To use, appropriate, or preempt the use of another's idea, especially to one's own advantage [...].”
38. Do it the Cocoa Way®
39. (Or don’t.)
40. Underscore.m:
44. What to STEAL
45. Backbone.js
46. Bindings Why: Simple persistence Model collections
49. MVVM (Model-View-ViewModel-lol-wtf-bbq-brb-ftw)
50. Better separation Why: Easier unit testing
51. Rx (Reactive Extensions)
52. Expressive Why: Less state Better code locality
54. (BTW, I already stole Rx.)
55. Persistent Data Structures
56. Safer code Why: “Simpler”
57. Probably everything from Clojure
58. Because it’s awesome Why:
59. Go forth and STEAL
60. (The End.)