Houston Sipes

Houston Sipes

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Build xcframework using Aggregated Targets in xcode

If you’re already familiar with how to build xcframworks using command line tools, then this article is how you take that to the next level.

If you haven’t built or don’t know how to build xcframeworks, I’ve already explained that in details in my previous article here.

Aggregated Targets

Aggregated Targets is used when we need to build multiple targets together somehow.

We will start by our example FruitBasket from the previous article and you can download it from this git repo, here is a preview of the code we have in there.

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Build xcframework using Aggregated Targets in xcode
Houston Sipes

Houston Sipes

1600452000

Build xcframework using Aggregated Targets in xcode

If you’re already familiar with how to build xcframworks using command line tools, then this article is how you take that to the next level.

If you haven’t built or don’t know how to build xcframeworks, I’ve already explained that in details in my previous article here.

Aggregated Targets

Aggregated Targets is used when we need to build multiple targets together somehow.

We will start by our example FruitBasket from the previous article and you can download it from this git repo, here is a preview of the code we have in there.

#xcframework #programming #swift #ios #xcode

Solwin Infotech

Solwin Infotech

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Why Use WordPress? What Can You Do With WordPress?

Can you use WordPress for anything other than blogging? To your surprise, yes. WordPress is more than just a blogging tool, and it has helped thousands of websites and web applications to thrive. The use of WordPress powers around 40% of online projects, and today in our blog, we would visit some amazing uses of WordPress other than blogging.
What Is The Use Of WordPress?

WordPress is the most popular website platform in the world. It is the first choice of businesses that want to set a feature-rich and dynamic Content Management System. So, if you ask what WordPress is used for, the answer is – everything. It is a super-flexible, feature-rich and secure platform that offers everything to build unique websites and applications. Let’s start knowing them:

1. Multiple Websites Under A Single Installation
WordPress Multisite allows you to develop multiple sites from a single WordPress installation. You can download WordPress and start building websites you want to launch under a single server. Literally speaking, you can handle hundreds of sites from one single dashboard, which now needs applause.
It is a highly efficient platform that allows you to easily run several websites under the same login credentials. One of the best things about WordPress is the themes it has to offer. You can simply download them and plugin for various sites and save space on sites without losing their speed.

2. WordPress Social Network
WordPress can be used for high-end projects such as Social Media Network. If you don’t have the money and patience to hire a coder and invest months in building a feature-rich social media site, go for WordPress. It is one of the most amazing uses of WordPress. Its stunning CMS is unbeatable. And you can build sites as good as Facebook or Reddit etc. It can just make the process a lot easier.
To set up a social media network, you would have to download a WordPress Plugin called BuddyPress. It would allow you to connect a community page with ease and would provide all the necessary features of a community or social media. It has direct messaging, activity stream, user groups, extended profiles, and so much more. You just have to download and configure it.
If BuddyPress doesn’t meet all your needs, don’t give up on your dreams. You can try out WP Symposium or PeepSo. There are also several themes you can use to build a social network.

3. Create A Forum For Your Brand’s Community
Communities are very important for your business. They help you stay in constant connection with your users and consumers. And allow you to turn them into a loyal customer base. Meanwhile, there are many good technologies that can be used for building a community page – the good old WordPress is still the best.
It is the best community development technology. If you want to build your online community, you need to consider all the amazing features you get with WordPress. Plugins such as BB Press is an open-source, template-driven PHP/ MySQL forum software. It is very simple and doesn’t hamper the experience of the website.
Other tools such as wpFoRo and Asgaros Forum are equally good for creating a community blog. They are lightweight tools that are easy to manage and integrate with your WordPress site easily. However, there is only one tiny problem; you need to have some technical knowledge to build a WordPress Community blog page.

4. Shortcodes
Since we gave you a problem in the previous section, we would also give you a perfect solution for it. You might not know to code, but you have shortcodes. Shortcodes help you execute functions without having to code. It is an easy way to build an amazing website, add new features, customize plugins easily. They are short lines of code, and rather than memorizing multiple lines; you can have zero technical knowledge and start building a feature-rich website or application.
There are also plugins like Shortcoder, Shortcodes Ultimate, and the Basics available on WordPress that can be used, and you would not even have to remember the shortcodes.

5. Build Online Stores
If you still think about why to use WordPress, use it to build an online store. You can start selling your goods online and start selling. It is an affordable technology that helps you build a feature-rich eCommerce store with WordPress.
WooCommerce is an extension of WordPress and is one of the most used eCommerce solutions. WooCommerce holds a 28% share of the global market and is one of the best ways to set up an online store. It allows you to build user-friendly and professional online stores and has thousands of free and paid extensions. Moreover as an open-source platform, and you don’t have to pay for the license.
Apart from WooCommerce, there are Easy Digital Downloads, iThemes Exchange, Shopify eCommerce plugin, and so much more available.

6. Security Features
WordPress takes security very seriously. It offers tons of external solutions that help you in safeguarding your WordPress site. While there is no way to ensure 100% security, it provides regular updates with security patches and provides several plugins to help with backups, two-factor authorization, and more.
By choosing hosting providers like WP Engine, you can improve the security of the website. It helps in threat detection, manage patching and updates, and internal security audits for the customers, and so much more.

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Clovis Halvorson

Clovis Halvorson

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The Best Way to Build a Chatbot in 2021

A useful tool several businesses implement for answering questions that potential customers may have is a chatbot. Many programming languages give web designers several ways on how to make a chatbot for their websites. They are capable of answering basic questions for visitors and offer innovation for businesses.

With the help of programming languages, it is possible to create a chatbot from the ground up to satisfy someone’s needs.

Plan Out the Chatbot’s Purpose

Before building a chatbot, it is ideal for web designers to determine how it will function on a website. Several chatbot duties center around fulfilling customers’ needs and questions or compiling and optimizing data via transactions.

Some benefits of implementing chatbots include:

  • Generating leads for marketing products and services
  • Improve work capacity when employees cannot answer questions or during non-business hours
  • Reducing errors while providing accurate information to customers or visitors
  • Meeting customer demands through instant communication
  • Alerting customers about their online transactions

Some programmers may choose to design a chatbox to function through predefined answers based on the questions customers may input or function by adapting and learning via human input.

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What is BUILD Finance (BUILD) | What is BUILD Finance token | What is BUILD token

BUILD Finance DAO

The document is non-binding. Some information may be outdated as we keep evolving.

BUILD Philosophy

BUILD Finance is a decentralised autonomous venture builder, owned and controlled by the community. BUILD Finance produces, funds, and manages community-owned DeFi products.

There are five core activities in which the venture BUILDers engage:

  1. Identifying business ideas,
  2. Organising teams,
  3. Sourcing capital,
  4. Helping govern the product entities, and
  5. Providing shared services.

BUILD operates a shared capabilities model, where the DAO provides the backbone support and ensures inter-entity synergies so that the product companies can focus on their own outcomes.

BUILD takes care of all organisational, hiring, back/mid office functions, and the product companies focus on what they can do best, until such time where any individual product outgrows the DAO and becomes fully self-sustainable. At that point, the chick is strong enough to leave the nest and live its own life. The survival of the fittest. No product entity is held within DAO by force.

Along the way, BUILD utilises the investment banking model, which, in its essence, is a process of creating assets, gearing them up, and then flipping them into a fund or setting them as income-generating business systems, all this while taking fees along the way at each step. BUILD heavily focuses on integrating each asset/product with each other to boost productive yield and revenues. For example, BUILD’s OTC Market may be integrated with Metric Exchange to connect the liquidity pools with the trading traffic. The net result – pure synergy that benefits each party involved, acting in a self-reinforcing manner.

El Espíritu de la Colmena (The Spirit of the Beehive)

BUILD is a hive and is always alive. While some members may appear more active than others, there’s no central source of control or “core teams” as such. BUILD is work in progress where everyone is encouraged to contribute.

Following the natural free market forces, BUILD only works on those products that members are wanting to work on themselves and that they believe have economic value. Effectively, every builder is also a user of BUILD’s products. We are DeFi users that fill the gaps in the ecosystem. Any member can contribute from both purely altruistic or ultra-mercantile intentions – it’s up to the wider community to decide what is deemed valuable and what product to support. The BUILD community is a sovereign individual that votes with their money and feet.

BUILD members = BUILD users. It’s that simple.

$BUILD TOKEN

Tokenomics

$BUILD token is used as a governance token for the DAO. It also represents a pro-rata claim of ownership on all DAO’s assets and liabilities (e.g. BUILD Treasury and $bCRED debt token).

The token was distributed via liquidity mining with no pre-sale and zero founder/private allocation. The farming event lasted for 7 days around mid-Sep 2020. At the time, BUILD didn’t have any products and held no value. Arguably, $BUILD has still zero value as it is not a legal instrument and does not guarantee or promise any returns to anyone. See the launch announcement here https://medium.com/@BUILD_Finance/announcing-build-finance-dc08df585e57​

Initial supply was 100,000 $BUILD with 100% distributed via fair launch. Subsequently, the DAO unanimously voted to approve minting of extra 30,000 $BUILD and allocate them as:

  • 15,000 $BUILD (11.5%) to the founding member of the DAO (@0xdev0) with 1-year gradual vesting, and
  • 15,000 $BUILD (11.5%) to the DAO treasury as development funds.

For the proposal of the above see: https://forum.letsbuild.finance/t/proposal-2-fund-the-development-of-defi-lending-platform/24​

The voting took place at a later retired web-page https://vote.letsbuild.finance. The governance has since moved to Snapshot (link below). The results of the old proposals are not visible there, however, on-chain voting contract can be see here: https://etherscan.io/address/0xa8621477645f76b06a41c9393ddaf79ddee63daf#readContract​

$Build Token Repartition

Vesting Schedule

Minting keys are not burnt = $BUILD supply is not fixed as token holders can vote on minting new tokens for specific reasons determined by the token holders. For example, the DAO may mint additional tokens to incentivise usage of its products, which would, in turn, increase the value flow or TVL. Dilution is not in the economic benefit of the token holders, hence any such events has to be considered carefully.

Access to minting function is available via on-chain governance. A safe buffer is established in a form of the contract-enforced 24 hour delay, which should provide a sufficient time for the community to flag. Meaning that before such a transaction could be executed, everyone would be able to act in advance by withdrawing their funds / exiting from BUILD. Any malicious minting would, theoretically, result in an immediate market sell-off of $BUILD, making it economically detrimental to do such an action. This makes it highly improbable that any malicious minting would be performed_._

GOVERNANCE

All components of the BUILD DAO and the control over its have been decentralised:

  • All contracts (incl. the Treasury and Basis Gold) can be operated by $BUILD holders with on-chain proposals (see https://docs.build.finance/build-knowledge-base/on-chain-voting);
  • All social accounts (Discord, Telegram, and Twitter) are managed by multiple moderators;
  • All frontends (Metric Exchange, Basis Gold, and the BUILD homepage) are auto-deployed and managed by multiple devs.

TREASURY & DEVELOPMENT

BUILD DAO Treasury

The BUILD treasury has over $400k that can be managed by on-chain proposals and used in whichever way the community desires. For example, to hire developers. Having a functioning product, enough funds in the treasury and a fully decentralised governance has been a long-term goal since the inception in September 2020, and now it’s finally here.

Current holdings are (might be outdated):

  • Capital budget (dev / incentives fund) - 11,025 $BUILD (~$94k);
  • Operational budget (product development) - 204,300 $aDAI;
  • Ownership stake - 200,000 $METRIC (~$84k);
  • Ownership stake - 199,900 $UPDOWN(~$62k);
  • Ownership stake - 5,400 $HYPE (~$1.3k);
  • Ownership stake - 2% of $BSGS supply.
  • TOTAL: ~$445k

Funding of the Development

In an early stage, the development will be funded by an allocation of bCRED debt tokens for development expenses. After the first product was built (i.e. Metric Exchange), the DAO sold 5,000 $BUILD for 203,849 $DAI which will now be used for funding of other products or a combination of revenue + a smaller token allocation. This is up to the community to decide.

Smart Contract Audit

Contracts are not audited. It’s up to the BUILD community governance to decide how to spend our funds. If the community wants to spend any amount for auditing, a voting proposal can be initiated. As with any decisions and proposals, the cost-benefit analysis must be employed in regards to the economical sense of spending any funds on audit vs developing more products and expanding our revenue streams.

DAO Liabilities and $bCRED

$bCRED is a token that allowed the DAO to reward members for work before the DAO source sufficient funds. Effectively, $bCRED is a promissory note or an IOU to give back $DAI at 1:1 ratio, when the DAO starts generating revenues. Read more about $bCRED here: https://medium.com/@BUILD_Finance/what-is-bcred-b97e4cc75f8c.

“BUILDER” User Role in Discord

Since Discord is our primary coordination mechanism, we need to make effort to keep it focused on producing value. During the launch of METRIC, we’ve doubled our total number of users! This made it very difficult for existing users to explain what BUILD is about to new users and created a lot of confusion.

To help improve the quality of conversations, we’ve introduced a new user role called BUILDer. BUILDers will have write-access to product development channels while everyone else will only be able to read them. This should keep those product changes focused on actual productive conversations and make them more informative.

“GUARDIAN” Role in Discord

To increase our collective output as a community, a governance vote introduced an incentivisation mechanism for community contribution, tipping, and other small projects using our unique bCRED token (but may change in the future as required). These tokens are stewarded by active community members — “guardians’’ — who are free to allocate these funds to tip people for proactive work. Current guardians are @Son of Ishtar and @0xdev0, although anyone can propose the tip for anyone else. For more details see Proposal #15.

Hence, Guardians are defined as members of the DAO who are entrusted with a community budget for tipping other members for performing various small tasks.

PRODUCT SUITE & ROADMAP

  • Metric Exchange - is a DEX aggregator that allows for limit orders trading for any ERC-20 token via 0x relayer. Development continues with the product owner SHA_2048 and inputs from vfat. Live at metric.exchange.
  • Basis Gold - a synthetic, algorythmically-adjusted token pegged to the price of gold (sXAU) with elastic supply. Live at https://basis.gold/.
  • Updown Finance - binary options for volatility trading instrument (alpha is live at updown.finance).
  • Vortex - a lending & borrowing platform, which will target the long tail of assets that are currently not served by the existing DeFi money markets. Aiming to launch by March’2021.

The other immediate focus right now will be to make good use of our newly available funding and hire several product managers for other projects.

Please note that nothing is here set in stone. Just like any other start-up, we’ll keep experimenting, learning, and evolving. What’s listed here is just our current trajectory but it might change at any point.

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andrew cls

andrew cls

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HOW TO BUILD CUSTOM ALERT DIALOG BOX FROM SCRATCH STEP BY STEP USING SWIFT iOS XCODE 11.4

Create a custom dialog box that can be used instead of the UIAlertController.

Apple provides the UIAlertController to show a dialog box with actions and everything, but it’s not customizable except the messages and the actions. By creating a Custom View and displaying it as a kind of pop up box gives you much more freedom and allows you to be creative with it.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OQhoyu9lZG8&t=3s

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