Generics – The Basics
Generics give us the type safety of Swift with strong typing but also allows us to deal with those situations where we do not always know what the type of something is going to be. Sounds a little vague right? … Read the rest
Debugging Swift with Xcode
Anyone that writes code with no errors need not continue reading!
For the rest of us there is LLDB (Low Level Debugger) and the Swift REPL (Read-Eval-Print-Loop) to make finding and fixing our code almost fun, well almost. The Swift … Read the rest
Dictionaries in Swift – The Basics
Dictionaries in Swift can be a very powerful asset when managing data. For those of you coming from other languages you may already of encountered them by a different name associate arrays.
At the heart of a dictionary is … Read the rest
A Call to Action – Report Bugs
A call to action for the Xcode, iOS and OS X developers out there, do the responsible thing when you find a bug, check in with the developer forums and then report it. It is never to late … Read the rest
Application Prototyping Tips
Here are some tips that I feel apply in general to any application development regardless of language. When it comes to making your apps the more information you have upfront and throughout the process the better, and that means prototyping.… Read the rest