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Published inOct 2016
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ISBN-139781786469632
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Keith Elliott
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Keith Elliott

Keith Elliott is a multitalented professional with unique business and technology experience spanning telecommunications, real estate investment banking, and capital markets. His work is driven simply by problems that need solutions, whether the problem is as simple as his wifes request for a custom to-do list or as complex as interest rate derivatives and foreign exchange hedging. He graduated with an MBA from Columbia Business School with an emphasis in entrepreneurship and an undergraduate degree from Georgia Institute of Technology with a bachelor's in computer engineering. Keith's own company, GittieLabs LLC, works with startups to provide technology solutions. His vision is to equip students with the real-life experience necessary to succeed in startup and corporate life. You can find his blog on the GittieLabs LLC website, www.gittie.com. On nights and weekends, Keith can be found spending time with his family, riding motorcycles with his lovely wife, watching football, and rewatching countless hours of WWDC videos.
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Planning ahead


Let's face it, Xcode is asking you to bravely use its black box tool to make irreversible changes to your project. While I'm a huge Apple fan, I doubt I would ever just press the shiny new migrate button without thinking about what could go wrong in the process. I'm not in the business of scrapping projects and starting from scratch. Honestly, who really is? To avoid a potentially terrible time with the Migrator, you really should consider doing everything listed below as pre-work before migrating your project:

  1. Ensure that your existing codebase is making use of a version control system such as Git (https://git-scm.com) or Subversion (https://subversion.apache.org). If you run the Migrator and the output doesn't convert things as expected (or other unexpected things happen), you will have peace of mind that you can always get back to your original version.

  2. Make sure your project compiles on the latest version of Xcode (7.3 or 7.3.1). You want to make sure everything, including...

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Keith Elliott

Keith Elliott is a multitalented professional with unique business and technology experience spanning telecommunications, real estate investment banking, and capital markets. His work is driven simply by problems that need solutions, whether the problem is as simple as his wifes request for a custom to-do list or as complex as interest rate derivatives and foreign exchange hedging. He graduated with an MBA from Columbia Business School with an emphasis in entrepreneurship and an undergraduate degree from Georgia Institute of Technology with a bachelor's in computer engineering. Keith's own company, GittieLabs LLC, works with startups to provide technology solutions. His vision is to equip students with the real-life experience necessary to succeed in startup and corporate life. You can find his blog on the GittieLabs LLC website, www.gittie.com. On nights and weekends, Keith can be found spending time with his family, riding motorcycles with his lovely wife, watching football, and rewatching countless hours of WWDC videos.
Read more about Keith Elliott