Published inBetter Programming·May 23, 2019Member-onlySurviving RxSwiftBest practices and how to get your head around reactive programming in Swift — Before I start I need to mention that these are a set of best practices that I personally use to get the most out of RxSwift (Rx) and avoid many of the common pitfalls. …Swift6 min readSwift6 min read
Published inBetter Programming·May 1, 2019Member-onlyBetter Swift Codable Models Through CompositionImagine we want to build an app to track books. The API we are building against provides JSON for authors and books, which looks like this: Swift’s Codable features enable us to quickly create matching models: Thanks to Codable this is all we have to do to get…Swift4 min readSwift4 min read
Nov 15, 2016Meaningful Composite ErrorsI really like Swifts error handling system for synchronous code. It allows us to produce errors that have all the information we need attached. We are able to choose to handle errors as they occur or throw them further up the chain, delegating that to another part of our code. …Swift3 min readSwift3 min read
Jul 22, 2016Running a public Vapor Server from your MacBookI’m doing a lot of server side Swift lately — primarily working on my Slackbot Chameleon. I am working on a new feature that requires a HTTP server and I’ve decided to use Vapor. …Swift1 min readSwift1 min read
Jun 23, 2016Chameleon: the Swift Slack bot — Persistence with RedisGiving Chameleon a Redis brain! Note: This article/series is deprecated, There has been a lot of changes in the Chameleon framework. I will produce a new set of articles soon.. sorry for not completing this series. Recap Last time we went through setting up your first Swift Slack bot and deploying…Slack3 min readSlack3 min read
Jun 21, 2016Getting started with Chameleon: the Swift Slack bot!Setting up a Swift Slack bot on Heroku! Note: This article/series is deprecated, There has been a lot of changes in the Chameleon framework. I will produce a new set of articles soon.. sorry for not completing this series. What is Chameleon? Chameleon is an open-source, extensible Slack bot built in Swift. It…Swift4 min readSwift4 min read
May 27, 2016MVVM: A non-reactive introductionNote: Sample project can be found here. I love MVVM. Ever since adopting it many moons ago the ways in which I architect my apps have vastly improved. I personally credit it to the freedom MVVM allows. …IOS8 min readIOS8 min read
Apr 14, 2016Swift + iOS8 IBOutlet IssueComplete credit to Logan Wright (Twitter) for the solution to this problem that had me chasing my tail for a few hours today. Problem I had a view controller with a custom init that looked something like this: Nothing fancy here… however this will crash under iOS8 on line 12: …IOS1 min readIOS1 min read
Apr 11, 2016Separation of concerns: UI EditionNote: Sample project at the end. I can be a little OCD when it comes to separation of concerns. Thankfully, for service level objects such as networking or persistence, this is easily achievable. …Swift5 min readSwift5 min read
Apr 4, 2016Reading plists into a typed DictionaryA question was asked over on iOS Developers about a ‘swifty’ way of reading a plist into a Dictionary so I decided to do a little research. Currently there are two ways to read in plist data. Lets have a look at each method and how they are used. NSPropertyListSerialization This…Swift3 min readSwift3 min read
