It’s been almost two years since I blogged on this page. I know, two years is a long break for a person that claims to love “Writing about my everyday coding problems and solutions”. Well, there is a very valid reason for my absence because I have been working on Read more…
Every iOS developer I know dreams of writing code that’s DRY, modular, testable and reusable. While this is a great goal to strive for it’s often quite hard to write code that is completely modular. It just takes one oversight to blow most of the modularity you have achieved right Read more…
One of the hardest things a programmer has to do on a daily basis is naming things. Anything that we name will stay with us for a while and it’s very likely that other programmers will have to use the thing we just named as well. So naming something properly Read more…
A little while ago I wrote a post about PromiseKit. In this post I wrote mainly about how you could wrap API calls in Promises using the NSURLConnection extension that the creator of PromiseKit provides. Since writing that article I’ve had a bunch of people asking me more about PromiseKit. Read more…
Some of the most engaging apps we use today are apps that require network connectivity of some kind. They communicate with an API somewhere to fetch and store data for example. Or they use an API to search through a huge amount of data. The point is, you don’t want Read more…
Whenever I’m programming, I have a goal in mind, generally a problem to solve. I want my solutions to be simple, yet elegant and reliable. Thankfully, Swift is a great language for this. The language is safe, its syntax is beautiful with great readability. The way Swift handles nullability contributes Read more…
No app is truly complete without some subtle shadows. Especially now that Google’s Material Design is showing us that shadows are cool again we need a way to properly add them in our apps. In my previous post I wrote about a way to create a custom UICollectionView layout. There was one Read more…
If you’ve ever built an iOS app that uses some kind of grid layout or displays a list in a way that doesn’t fit a UITableView you have probably used a UICollectionView. This components allows for very simple grid layout creation and it even allows you to dynamically change layouts. Read more…
The other day somebody asked how they could retrieve every other element in an array using Swift. The solution they had tried was to use a for loop to go through all of the elements and then they would pop those elements off the array. This seemed to work okay Read more…
When Apple announced Protocol extensions at this year’s WWDC and went on to explain the idea of Protocol Oriented Programming (video here), I think every iOS developer got really exited. Especially with Protocol extensions it seems that everything we will ever build can and will be protocol based instead of Read more…