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Recently I was in a situation where I needed to convert hexadecimal data into ASCII text data and I had to pause because I needed to remember how this was done in a low level environment and it was escaping me off the top of my head.  I was working close to the metal in a Darwin environment so I had C at my disposal, but I could not for the life of me remember the conversion from hexadecimal to ASCII for a stream of data like 0x6a, 0xdc.  So that is the goal for this post, to describe my thou

When Swift was announced back in 2014 I can remember thinking that I needed to make a pivot in my development approach and take all of my Objective-C knowledge and apply it towards developing in the Swift programming language going forward.  At first, I thought Swift would be a one-for-one replacement of Objective-C and there would not be much of a difference in the development process other than the syntax.

Now that WWDC 2017 has officially come to a close I thought I would write a follow up recapping my wishlist from my previous article, Attending WWDC 2017, and then talk about some of the other big developer announcements from this year as well.  First, let's recap Xcode command line tools.  Xcode 9 had a lot of really nice updates this year.