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SwiftUI part 2

Four months later and I’m still working on a SwiftUI project.  I upgraded Xcode twice and introduced and fixed bugs in my project.  Some things are easy and some concepts just don’t make sense.  Fortunately, more examples of technique are available to...

Swift UI

I’m currently writing my first app with Swift UI.  I took advantage of the recent misfortune of having my Mac die on me to set up another one with Catalina and Xcode 11.1.  I had been using storyboards in Xcode 10, so this turned out to be quite a change and...

Linked In Learning

Last week, I learned that the University of Memphis paid for access to Linked In Learning for its employees. So naturally I spent the Labor Day weekend learning about several skills related to my work.  Today I am learning more about how to use WordPress....

Game Development

I went to a Memphis Game Developers meeting for a crash course on using Unity.  I had all of the tools I needed, but couldn’t follow along – mainly because I’m a slow typist.  Later, I found and completed a slightly easier demo and will go back and...

Virtual Reality

I spent two days this week at a Virtual Reality workshop learning about the Unity environment and trying out Oculus Rift and Oculus Quest VR headsets.  Very interesting technology and I see how we can incorporate it into some of the research we do here.