58: A Lot of Clicking Around

Published: May 31, 2015, 10 p.m.

b'With Ben off attending Google I/O, Jake and Jelly talk art exhibitions, storyboards, Jelly\\u2019s struggle with sync, and prepping for WWDC.\\n\\nJake kicks things off by talking a little about features he\\u2019s recently discovered in Storyboards, such as the ability to mark constraints and constants in storyboards as \\u201cinstalled\\u201d. He\\u2019s slightly ashamed, since he\\u2019s realise that these features have been around for a while now, but never the less, it just makes him love them more.\\n\\nTo make him feel worse, Jelly tosses out a new feature Jake\\u2019s never heard of: the ability to provide image assets based on device and size class. He also agrees that storyboards are the logical choice for visual layout design (WHAT?); things like autolayout constraints make more sense in a visual format than in code.\\n\\nJelly then spins the discussion off to talk about his issues with sync in GIFwrapped: a year and a half into working on the app, he\\u2019s still having issues. In response to an announcement from Dropbox that they\\u2019re moving to a new version of their API, he\\u2019s working on a new structure for the GIFwrapped library, part of which means writing his own Dropbox client directly on top of the HTTP API.\\n\\nThis leads to the question of which is better: notifications, protocols (like delegates), or blocks. Jelly first asks Jake\\u2019s opinion, then proceeds to describe his rationale for the use of each one.\\n\\nJake wants to spend a little time talking about how to prep for WWDC, which is happening next week, so he spends a little time explaining what he\\u2019s been doing to get ready: re-watching last year\\u2019s sessions, filing radars, and preparing sample projects to take to labs.'