Strings: lamaCase and CamelCase to snake_case in Swift

Just a gist I worked on for my current project, to convert strings to lamaCase, CamelCase, and (further down) snake_case:

How to Use Boolean Attributes in Core Data

Some Context:

The data model of my current project started breaking after I versioned it to #7, rejecting my usage of Booleans. Part of my confusion was due to this selective, late-in-the-game breakage: booleans had been…

Adding a Decoration View to a UICollectionView in Interface Builder

tl;dr: You Can’t. But…

My current project employs multiple UICollectionViews with custom layouts. Those layouts have a nice decoration view that I borrowed from Joe Keely…

Parsing HTML in Swift 3 (and RTF, etc.)

A friend of mine and I were discussing how to parse HTML and turn them into…

Principles of Object-oriented Programming: Why SOLID?

SOLID for Newbies

Apple is Wrong! (In this small way)

How should you section off your delegate (and datasource) methods? I have seen (so far) two ways that Apple does so in their templates:

1. ‘Brief’ Format:

Solutions: Making a Calculator (Adding Buttons to Numpad)

Adding Buttons to UIKit’s Numpad

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Book Review: The Swift Developer’s Cookbook, by Erica Sadun

240 pages, Addison-Wesley Professional, 1st ed (19 Dec 2015)

tl;dr

In sum, if you are a moderately experienced in Objective-C, this petite volume covers basically the same…

…and we’re back!

UICollectionViews and I (part I)

tl;dr — one-line designated-init-boilerplate

If you take nothing else from this post, here is a clever LOC I encountered in Ash Furrow’s book on UICollectionViews: