4: We did talk about Core Data!

On this episode, Kevin throws in a big announcement, followed by a group discussion on Swift’s nil coalescing operator and the common applications of Core Data.

Show notes

Quick shout out to Nutshell, an awesome start-up that's building a modern cloud-based CRM
The “what what”, nil coalescing operator (Docs)
Other Swift optional sugar: Optional chaining
Changes in the Swift standard library for beta 5
CloudKit
Fetched Properties; Useful?
Kevin’s seriously singleton gist
Core Data
Apple’s Introduction to Core Data Programming Guide
UIKonf, Matthew Morey on High Perf CoreData
MagicalRecord – an ActiveRecord-style Core Data library
Non-Core Data
FMDB – the best way to use SQLite from Objective-C
YapDatabase – a “key/value store and MUCH MORE”
FCModel – An alternative to Core Data for people who like having direct SQL access.
Mantle – a Cocoa model framework that’s especially designed to work in tandem with an HTTP API (note, it can be used with Core Data)
Core Data Concurrency: Core Da