In this article, we will face a question that we should always ask ourselves when writing a function: How should I name this function? Although this question looks simple, getting it answered properly determines a crucial aspect in our professional lives as software developers. …

I wrote this article almost two years ago. Unfortunately, the website where I published it shut down. By luck, though, I've been recently told I was allowed to republish this content, which is what I'm gladly doing right now. Special thanks to Brujo Benavides who pushed so hard on getting…

The Strategy Pattern is one of the first design patterns I’ve learned in the theory. Sadly, however, it was very difficult for me to find real use cases where it could be applied in actual iOS codebases. …

Quite often in iOS projects, it happens that QA people find issues like this one: Usually, they report the bug, and, when it’s your turn to fix it, the first thing you think is “Okay, I’ll put a breakpoint where the alert is created and see what’s going on”. …

Introduction Engaging gears in a project involves powering up our everyday processes. In the iOS world, a very important one is how we deal with environments and other settings that need to be customized depending on the audience. Xcode does have a set of tools to help us along the way…

Hello there! It’s been a while since I shared Getting the right colors in your iOS app, a blogpost I wrote for helping iOS devs prevent the color nightmare that happens every now and then. That blogpost was cool and got more visits than I expected, but, the information I exposed at…