In perfect world every action finish with the success. In real world it's not. In perfect world sending network request returns with a result. In real world it fail sometimes due to dozen of reasons, and since we're living in the real world I have to…
How to be awesome Swift developer
I don't know, but I received enough emails from various people asking me how to be "awesome Swift developer" to write this post. > I’d be an iOS developer and it would be amazing if you could me advise on the right path to follow…
Linux compatible Swift and Swift Package Manager
Apple opensourced Swift [https://swift.org/] today, as promised in early 2015. This is great, awesome etc... but I'm not about that here. Together with Swift - programming language, Apple presented Linux port of Swift compiler and some tools. One of the tools is Swift Package Manager [https:…
Code at the end of the queue
Operation and OperationQueue [http://nshipster.com/nsoperation/] are great and useful Foundation framework [https://developer.apple.com/library/mac/documentation/Cocoa/Reference/Foundation/ObjC_classic/] tools for asynchronous tasks. One thing puzzled me though: How can I run code after all my queue operations finish? The simple answer is: use…
Swift reflection about food
Reflection in practice Reflection [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reflection_(computer_programming)] technique may be useful to build quasi generic functions that operate at runtime. It may be quasi type safe, though it uses runtime too - as such can't be optimised/validated during compilation. With Objective-C we…