Dan Fairbanks

Mobile App Development

How to Create Drag and Drop Cells in Swift using an UILongPressGestureRecognizer

While working on a recent project for a client, I needed to implement a drag and drop table view for moving cells around. As I did some research, I found a great tutorial on www.raywenderlich.com. The only problem was that it was in Objective-C and I was writing my project in Swift. I couldn’t just
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Design

The Top Five Ways Mobile Technology Will Change Your Future

The best way to predict the future is to invent it. At least that is what every company at last week’s Consumer Electronics Show (CES) in Las Vegas is trying to do. As I followed and tracked the announcements and blog posts about new products at CES, I couldn’t help but notice how almost all
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Innovation as a Service

Is the Apple Watch Innovative?

This is what one of my friends asked me following the announcement of the Apple Watch. He suggested that the Apple watch didn’t really do anything new or different than other smart watches on the market, rather, they were just following the smart watch trend and coming out with their version. Is he right? My short answer: No,
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Mobile App Development

Extensions are going to be one of the most useful and powerful new features of iOS 8

Extensions are going to be one of the most useful and powerful new features of iOS 8, opening up all kinds of new possibilities in app development. A lot of these extensions have been in demand for a long time. This demand will create a flood of these extensions being developed for new and well-established
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