No Blockers — I’ve been wondering, is there any difference between saying no blockers and saying no block? If you’re saying anything different at your stand-up it’s all going a bit wrong. Let us explore why. The failing Stand-up I’ve been in software projects where the stand-up goes on for that little bit too long. The…

MVC, MVVM or VIPER? What about coordinators? — This is common ground for those involved in App Development; as in how are you going to organise your code? How are you going to make sure that the classes are correctly instantiated? This article is about choosing which architecture might be suitable for your App — for specific examples…

Software Development! — There are a number of ways of Planning Design Development Testing Launch and Maintenance For the developer Gather requirements Design Implement Verify the solution Yet these components for software development, when taken at face value seem rather small and trivial. Let us move into more detail about the process that…

Make a good experience a great one — Before we start Difficulty: Beginner | Easy | Normal | Challenging This article has been developed using Xcode 13.0, and Swift 5.3 Prerequisites You will be expected to be aware how to make a Single View Application in Swift Terminology Dynamic type: A system that allows users to globally change the default font size used…

Make UI testing that bit easier! — Difficulty: Beginner | Easy | Normal | Challenging This article has been developed using Xcode 12.0, and Swift 5.3 Prerequisites: You will be expected to be aware how to make a Single View Application, or a Playground to run Swift code Terminology: Snapshot testing: A way to test UI by rendering a…

Make it nice, please! — Prerequisites: You will need to be familiar with the basics of Swift and able to start a Playground (or similar) Terminology: UIViewControllerAnimatedTransitioning: A set of methods for implementing the animations for a custom view controller transition Wouldn’t it be nice? If we could use UIViewControllerAnimatedTransitioning to make a nice transition from a UICollectionView to a detail…

Swift package manager? Not yet… — There are competitors to Carthage. The developers of Carthage intended their dependency manager to be the simplest way of adding frameworks to a Cocoa application while being flexible and unobtrusive. The most popular dependency manager, CocoaPods, is easier to use but requires you to use a workspace, as is the…

Can you give better feedback? — Look — we’ve all been through it. You pick up a Pull Request and see that there are 1500 lines that have changed. Nobody reviews the PR. This is a failure since: The main purpose of a PR is to initiate code review Yes there are pleasant side-effects of…

One-to-Many or One-to-One — I’ve previously covered the Observer Pattern in Swift, but there seems to be two implementations in the iOS SDK - NotificationCenter KVO So which is what, and what is in the now can we? Read on to find better English. Or watch the following video: Prerequisites You will be expected…