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Start using Swift with Parse.com

Unfortunately Parse is closing down in 2017, but we have found a great and actually local (to us) service: AppStax.

We decided to develop an iOS app to interface with #lillygram. #lillygram uses the popular «Backend-as-a-Service» Parse.com. Here’s a quick overview of how to get started using Swift with Parse.com, based on our experiences so far.

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Unfortunately Parse is closing down in 2017, but we have found a great and actually local (to us) service: AppStax.

How to handle timezones in Parse.com

Unfortunately Parse is closing down in 2017, but we have found a great and actually local (to us) service: AppStax.

Update: It seems the tutorial might not be valid any more as there are new versions of Parse and Moment. I do not have time to update this turorial as of now (March 2015).

Ever needed to handle dates and time zones in Parse?

(Jump straight to the full Gist example if you want to skip the explanation.)

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Unfortunately Parse is closing down in 2017, but we have found a great and actually local (to us) service: AppStax.

Promises Save The Day

Unfortunately Parse is closing down in 2017, but we have found a great and actually local (to us) service: AppStax.

In the past few days we’ve experienced a (possible belated) revelation about the promise-paradigm of programming, which may be familiar to you if you’re into jQuery.

Until now, we hadn’t really been able to realize what promises could do for us in our own code even though we’ve used them indirectly with Parse.com’s framework. Here’s a great blog post from Parse.com about Promises.

A promise in programming is basically a way of saying, look, I’ll do what you told me to do, and I’ll let you know in a while if I was able to or not.

The cool thing about promises is that you can chain them together. This is particularly useful if you don’t want asynchronous tasks (such as networking or IO) to be fired in parallel, but rather in a strict sequential order.

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Unfortunately Parse is closing down in 2017, but we have found a great and actually local (to us) service: AppStax.

How to Build Your Startup Technology Stack Real Fast Without Investing Any Money.

Unfortunately Parse is closing down in 2017, but we have found a great and actually local (to us) service: AppStax.

We built our first shippable product #lillygram in six weeks. This was possible in part because we made some smart choices about our technology stack. Here are some of them.

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Do you want to save lots of money and hundreds of hours of coding while building your product?

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Unfortunately Parse is closing down in 2017, but we have found a great and actually local (to us) service: AppStax.