Alexey Kuznetsov
Alexey Kuznetsov

Alexey Kuznetsov

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Humble Object Pattern in Swift

Why is UI testing so hard? Because the framework usually creates the UI objects for us, and we only fill in the blanks. It is expensive or…

Dec 8, 2015 · 3 min read
Dec 8, 2015 · 3 min read

What is VoIP

Voice over IP is a way of having phone calls via the Internet or local computer network. Calls on Face Time, Skype, WhatsApp, Messenger…

Mar 3 · 3 min read

Ten years of Telephone

Earlier this week, Telephone turned 10. On December 17, 2008, I released the first version 0.8 to the public. It was on Google Code — a…

Dec 21, 2018 · 2 min read

What’s new in Telephone 1.4

It’s been quite some time since the last release and I’m glad to present Telephone 1.4 to you.

Nov 22, 2018 · 4 min read

What’s new in Telephone 1.3

Telephone 1.3 has been released and I’m thrilled to tell you about this update.

Jan 15, 2018 · 3 min read

Overblown Delegates

Over a year ago I stopped using NSNotifications and KVO in favor of a plain old observer pattern. Here’s what I have to say after using it…

Dec 19, 2016 · 3 min read

The Conciseness of Swift

After writing in Swift for about a year almost exclusively, I sometimes forget how concise it is compared to Objective-C. Especially when…

Aug 8, 2016 · 1 min read

Too Many Private Methods

The refactoring in the previous article stopped at breaking down a big public method into several smaller and private ones. While the…

Apr 26, 2016 · 2 min read

Why Swift guard Should Be Avoided

A lot has been told about the guard statement since its appearance in Swift. Indeed, it simplifies code and makes it more readable. But is…

Dec 22, 2015 · 3 min read

View Event Testing in Swift

Separating Presentation and Event Handling Concerns

Dec 15, 2015 · 4 min read

Safer UIViewController Creation When Using Storyboards

The initializer-based dependency injection is likely the safest way of creating view controllers. However, it is not compatible with…

Dec 1, 2015 · 2 min read

Dependency Injection in View Controllers

The initializer-based dependency injection provides many benefits. How could it be applied to the view controllers?

Nov 24, 2015 · 2 min read

Dependency Injection in Swift

Dependency injection is a scary term for a very simple idea. Instead of creating the dependency internally

Nov 17, 2015 · 3 min read

Null Object Pattern in Swift

When something returns nil, it spreads like a disease. Checks for nil and optional unwrapping pollute all the functions around. The whole…

Nov 10, 2015 · 2 min read

Composite Observer

Last time I wrote about the usage of the classic observer pattern instead of NSNotifications. The example showed a user agent object taking…

Nov 9, 2015 · 1 min read

Observer Pattern

Dropping NSNotifications and KVO

Nov 9, 2015 · 1 min read