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Creating Custom Map Annotations using MKAnnotation Protocol

The following is a guest post by Basar Akyelli and originally appeared on his blog. Basar is currently in the iOS-000 class at The Flatiron School. You can follow him on Twitter here. This week at Flatiron School, we learned how to create custom UIMapView annotations using the MKAnnotation protocol. Even though at first I found it to be […]
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Dynamic Dispatch 101

Metaprogramming is code that operates at the highest levels of abstraction so as to reduce total lines of hard coded processes and data.
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Hello World! Let’s talk about App Delegates

The following is a guest post by Dasmer Singh and originally appeared on his blog. Dasmer is currently in the iOS-000 class at The Flatiron School. You can follow him on Twitter here. For my first ever blog post, I think discussing App Delegates is extremely useful in iOS dev.  The App Delegate is instrumental in every iOS […]
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Meditations

The following is a guest post by Michael Polycarpou and originally appeared on his blog. Michael is currently in the Ruby-003 class at The Flatiron School. You can follow him on Twitter here. Marcus Aurelius was a Roman Emperor from 161 to 180 AD. He is considered as the last of the five good emperors and is also […]
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Flatiron School Weekend Three – The Tap Method

The following is a guest post by Samuel Owens and originally appeared on his blog. Samuel is currently in the Ruby-003 class at The Flatiron School. You can follow him on Twitter here. Today I wanted to talk about a couple ways I think the .tap method in Ruby is useful. The first time a lot of us […]
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The Ternary Operator

The following is a guest post by Patrick Janson and originally appeared on his blog. Patrick is currently in the Ruby-003 class at The Flatiron School. In this post, I wanted to take a look at a conditional that I have used many times as a beginner but as our class has moved into object oriented programming, […]