Hi, I’m James Dempsey.  Welcome to my blog.

I worked at Apple for fifteen years before setting out on my own in August 2011.

As a software engineer at Apple, I worked on iOS, Aperture, and OS X releases Leopard through Lion, including half a decade on the Cocoa frameworks team.

I’ve also trained hundreds of developers on Apple technologies, including teaching Cocoa development at Stanford University and presenting at the Worldwide Developers Conference (WWDC) for over a decade.

My company Tapas Software does development for Apple platform in Swift and Objective-C.  I am available for consulting, contracting, and training.

I am active in the Swift community and serve as a member of the Swift Website and Contributor Experience Workgroups.

With James Dempsey and the Breakpoints, I write, record and perform songs about software development designed to enlighten and amuse. The band’s annual benefit concert LIVE near WWDC has become a WWDC week tradition.

I’d love to hear from you with any comments. Feel free to contact me at info@jamesdempsey.net or follow me on Mastodon.