In my last post, where I refactored a typical download-and-parse workflow, I said this about the downloader:
"There is still some work to be done to make the downloader testable, though"
I probably didn't write that as correctly as I should. It's not that I should have written the downloader to be more testable, I should have written a test-friendly downloading pattern.
Read MoreI originally wrote this on the ios-developers slack #code-review channel, and a few people suggested I make it a blog post. I wasn't really interested in doing that, code reviews aren't really a subject I write about. But they are super important, so here goes.
Read MoreA lot was made of the goto fail; issue on multiple Apple platforms, some of it disappointingly ill informed, especially in the comment sections.
goto is evil, you see. Possibly even eve-yil. Except it isn't, at least not always. There is a perfectly acceptable C idiom when goto is a good choice.
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