Matthew Holden

I've been focused on iOS for most of my professional career. I still pinch myself that I'm lucky enough to work in such a great development environment. I learned everything in Objective-C originally, but I've come to really love working with Swift even more. I'm skilled at helping break down some of the occasional oddities that arise when using ObjectiveC-based framework classes within Swift code. I also like using the lower-level Objective-C runtime from within Swift code to do things in UIKit that aren't possible in Swift. Today, I do all of my UI development purely in code, using Autolayout (usually with some helpful syntactic sugar to make the code short & sweet). I love teaching that process to people just to see the moment when they realize how much freedom you have when you break away from storyboards and .xib files. That said, I can help you fix problems in your storyboards & .xibs, too. I'm quite skilled with all the ins&outs of view controllers, views, and layers. I've also worked in-depth with a variety of frameworks, including CoreAnimation and MapKit. I can also help you with building your own reusable frameworks, Cocoapods, and Carthage.

I've been hacking away at the Swift language since the day it came out! I am very familiar with Swift's more advanced concepts, including generics, protocol extensions and associated types.

I love JavaScript. I've worked on the back-end infrastructure for a large-scale, real-time, multiple-device content-sharing application built with node.js and socket.io. I've also contributed in-depth to a node.js-based API at my current company, which is deployed on AWS. ** In short, I can proficiently break this slide: http://ejohn.org/apps/learn/#2. **

I've trained my team with enough about intelligently branching, rebasing and crafting our process so that we could bring some sanity to our deployment strategy.

I worked to maintain a large-scale web application for several years.

I've grown to really love working in Swift, but Objective-C will always have a huge spot in my heart.