A while ago I found myself mentioned on two sites as being popular. I wanted to document this for posterity.
Frenchman Vincent Daubery created GitHub Awards, which uses the GitHub APIs to determine a ranking of developers by City, Country or Worldwide. Incidentally, I am at the top mostly due to my Open Source projects DTCoreText (3093 stars) and DTFoundation (516 stars).
I was exhilarated to find myself only been outdone by famous Peter Steinberger who has more than double the amount of stars that I have amassed. Being amongst the Top 20 of the world is also nothing to sneeze at.
GitHub uses the Linguist Project for determining the language of a project. Since I have tons of HTML files inside DTCoreText’s unit tests, I wrongfully became the number one “HTML Programmer” in Austria. Not something that I wished to promote. đ
Fortunately there is a way to exclude certain paths from being considered by Linguist. They refer to these as “vendored paths” and the default paths are mentioned here. If you don’t want to change your project structure just to fix Linguist language detection, you can add a .gitattributes file.
Demo/* linguist-vendored Test/* linguist-vendored
With this in place the project turned from a HTML- into an Objective-C project.
I am chased by several very talented iOS developers from Austria, so I don’t know how much longer I will remain on this spot. But, thanks to Vincent I have a few months of glory.
“Reasonably Prominent”
Graham Dawson determined at my glory by looking at it from a different angle. He is using an algorithm by Ross Dawson which uses point values from Alexa, Klout, and Twitter to calculate a Net Influence score.
Dawson came up with the candidate list from his own experience. His selection criteria were:
- Have developed successful Mac and/or iOS apps
- Write publicly via twitter and/or blog/website about app development, app store and Apple
- Be posting (only or mainly) as an independent developer i.e. have own website or blog
- Reasonably prominent â anyone scoring too low in this ranking system may be dropped from the table, for the sake of expediency and avoiding overload
This list is a veritable how-is-how in the iOS developer scene. Although I strongly disagree with the inclusion of several people who don’t actively develop software, but prefer to talk about it. Oh wait, do I feel a certain jealously in my stomach? Well, being on fifth place of the entire world isn’t all too bad either.
The above chart is dated March 11, 2015. Dawson has promised a new version that would updated the values live, but at the time of this writing this has not yet materialised.
Conclusion
You probably suspected it before … now we have proof: I am one of the leading iOS developers of the world. I think I am well within my rights to be expecting more all-expenses-paid invitations to conferences. Like – for example – this year’s Mobiconf, where I am going to have a talk. They know how to properly treat us iOS development divas. đ
Also published on Medium.
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