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PLCrashReporter Stewardship Moving to Microsoft

Thu, 12 Sep 2019 12:00:00 +0000

We're pleased to announce that the App Center team at Microsoft will be taking over stewardship of PLCrashReporter.

A New Home for VoodooPad

Thu, 14 Dec 2017 13:00:00 +0000

We are pleased to announce that the team at Primate Labs has taken over sales and development of VoodooPad.

PLRelational: Query Optimization and Execution

Tue, 03 Oct 2017 13:00:00 +0000

We've been talking a lot about PLRelational lately and what you can do with it. Today I want to talk about some of its internals. In particular, I want to talk about how it optimizes and executes queries, which is one of the most interesting components of the framework.

Let's Build with PLRelational, Part 2

Thu, 28 Sep 2017 13:00:00 +0000

In Part 1 of this article, we used PLRelational to build a portion of a to-do application for macOS. In this article, we will follow the same process and focus on building out the right-hand side of the application, specifically the detail view.

Let's Build with PLRelational, Part 1

Mon, 18 Sep 2017 13:00:00 +0000

Our goal with this article is to give a big picture look at PLRelational and how it can be used to build an actual application. We will show how you can do things the PLRelational Way, and that will give us a baseline to help compare and contrast to existing technologies in a future article.

The Best New Features in Swift 4

Wed, 13 Sep 2017 13:00:00 +0000

Swift 4 is here, and it's bringing some nice changes. We're not getting a radical rework of the syntax like we did last year, nor are we getting a breathtaking pile of new features like we did for Swift 2, but there are some nice additions you can use to improve your code. L...

PLRelational: Storage Formats

Thu, 07 Sep 2017 13:00:00 +0000

We've been talking a lot lately about PLRelational and all the fancy stuff it does. However, we've been glossing over a fundamental part of it: how it actually stores data. After all, PLRelational is a data persistence framework at its core.

PLRelational: Observing Change

Tue, 29 Aug 2017 13:00:00 +0000

Before looking into all the goodies that PLRelational and PLRelationalBinding have to offer, it helps to first understand how the core Relation classes compute and deliver changes.

An Introduction to Relational Algebra Using PLRelational

Thu, 24 Aug 2017 13:00:00 +0000

We recently announced PLRelational, our framework for storing and working with data that is based on relational algebra. This raises the question: what exactly is relational algebra? Most of the material out there is either highly academic, or focused on SQL databases. This ...

Reactive Relational Programming with PLRelational

Thu, 10 Aug 2017 13:00:00 +0000

While working on the next major version of VoodooPad [1], an observation was made: user interfaces are basically just bidirectional transformation functions, taking data from some source and presenting it to the user, and vice versa. It sounds so simple when boiled down...