I'm currently trying to improve my understanding of best practices in POP. One of my starting points was this article by Natasha The Robot. The example of a shakeable view was easy to follow, but I wanted play with it a bit to make it a bit more configurable.
Read MoreWorking on an app for a client recently threw up an interesting issue with CPU performance. Basically we were maxing out the CPU, even on the most plain of view controllers displayed. Finding out why lead us to discover some interesting side effects to using animations.
Read MoreI recently discovered Soroush Khanlou's NSSpain presentation on Coordinators, and once more I'm architecturally smitten. In short (and I'm being free and easy with the reality and details here, I admit), a view controller should not know about it's place in the hierarchy, therefore a coordinating object is used to push and pop view controllers as the need arises.
Read MoreAn interesting post on Natasha the Robot's blog about data injection with storyboards and segues in swift got me to thinking. I'm using the same pattern as described in the post to set my data sources and other gubbins in prepareForSegue(_:sender:), and it seems
The iPhreaks podcast episode with Josh Brown was a good insight into JSON parsing in Swift. I didn't think it could be possible to have enough material for an entire book, but it turns out there is plenty.
Read MoreMy favourite Objective-C interview question is this:
"List as many ways as you can think of for accessing an object property."Read More