Everyone who knows me, also knows that I’m a huge whisky fan. In this post, I will blend two of my favourite things – whisky and programming, into an app that will detect the type of whisky, just by taking a picture of it. This might be useful if you have a whisky club that […]
Speaking at conferences
Lately, I’ve been doing a lot of talks at conferences, meetups and other events, such as job fairs and university classes. In this post, I will try to share some tips on how to get started, at least how were things going on for me in this interesting new experience.
Swift code types navigator
Software visualization gives an overview of the current state of your codebase. With it, you can onboard new team members faster, but also refresh your knowledge on an older code. There are tools that generate diagrams, graphs and other types of visualizations for most programming languages. For Swift, we have this great tool for creating […]
Pragmatic iOS app architecture
Lately, I’ve been reading a lot of articles on app architectures. There are many such articles, with many different opinions and solutions. It’s great that developers are sharing their experiences, the pros and cons that might help us decide which road to take in our future projects. I agree that there are many nice architectures, […]
Flexible table views with descriptor arrays
Introduction Frequently, in our work as iOS developers, we have to present some kind of data in a table view or in a collection view. There are many ways to customise the standard Apple components by implementing the their datasource and delegate methods. Most of the time, our task comes down to implementing the required […]
Forward pipe operator in Swift
One of the most debatable Swift features is the possibility to create your own (or overload the existing) operators. This feature has both pros and cons – on one hand you can make your code more readable, by getting rid of some verbose stuff. However, on the other hand, you might not implement the operator […]
iOSCon 2018
Conferences are a great opportunity to exchange knowledge and experiences with the fellow developers. The iOS community is pretty cool – there are a lot of fantastic people who are building apps and tools, but also share knowledge with everyone who wants to work as an iOS engineer. I’m very excited to attend iOSCon 2018, […]
