concurrency Tasks and threads in Swift Do you want to learn the basics about concurrent tasks, threads, and more? You are at the good place, this post will cover what you'll need to begin with.
travel Sri Lanka Sri Lanka is an extremely beautiful place to be. The island is located southeast to India, it's also called - by the natives - the Thumb of Buddha, and it can offer you a variety of adventures.
corekit UIKit + AppKit = CoreKit This is going to be a long awaited article for those who wanted to read about my universal framework called CoreKit.
ios 10 tips how NOT to develop iOS apps In the past few years I've seen lots of good & bad projects. In most of the cases developers made the same issues, in this post I'm trying to give you some tips about how NOT to code (iOS) apps.
macbook TouchBar is awesome! First of all I am still alive and I have 3-4 new blogposts almost ready to publish, so please don't worry new and interesting topics are coming soon. The second thing is that
swift3 Rotation support in iOS This time I'd like to talk about the autorotation system in iOS using Swift. First of all here is a little intro story, you can skip it if you want - by clicking
ios Swift frameworks Nowadays, I am working hard on the release of the CoreKit framework, I spent lots of hours with research and looking for patters that would work for me. I really hope that the
xcode Must have build scripts for iOS developers In this post I'll show you the best build scripts for Xcode and a brand new way to integrate them into your projects. Let's dive in with a few basic scripts that you
protocol Protocol oriented image picker Using the UIImagePickerController is pretty straightforward. The problem starts, when you have multiple controllers, and you need the picking ability in both of them. You can make a parent class with the core
swift3 18. Swift gist: generic allValues for enums The basic problem is that you can not get all the available values of an enum type in Swift. There are multiple solutions, and in this post I'll show you all of them.
swift3 Swift 3 on Ubuntu 16.04 linux inside VirtualBox For a long time I was avoiding server side swift. My main reason was that I really don't like the fact that I have to use virtualization in order to get things work
macbookpro Day 1 with the new Macbook Pro So here I am, writing the first post from my new Macbook Pro. Honestly, I love it. There are some minor things that are really annoying, but the fact is that the quality
swift3 Server-side Swift I used to be a backend developer for a very long time. I always loved it. First it started with PHP, and now Node.js is the preferred language for my backend systems.
game MacBook Pro touch bar runner game tutorial So the new MacBook Pro's are here, and as usual everyone is whining about the spec, and the price. Come on guys... these machines are amazing. Read this first, and dare to tell
uikit Learning iOS development I am teaching a course at a Hungarian university about iOS development and my students are constantly asking about which version of Swift should they choose, how should they begin to create an
uikit It's all about: UIKit framework Building UI is the hardest thing in iOS development. You might ask why? Just check out the different screen sizes, and device orientations. In this post I am going to list all the
swift Linting swift code It's really great to have a tool that will enforce your team members to follow the same language conventions. Sometimes I realise that I am not using the same coding styles. Shame on
gist 17. Swift gist: Shortest URL Request logger ever Here is the shortest URL Request logger ever. I am using URLProtocol subclass to log the request. If you know Timberjack you must be familiar this approach, but instead of implementing all the
xcode macOS Xcode Build Server tutorial I was trying to setup a macOS Server for continuous integration. Now I am a happy Bitrise user. Firstly I wanted to share how to setup the server but I think this is
xcode Xcode 8 extensions We have about one month left until the GM release of Xcode 8 so here is the biggest collection of the currently available native extensions. Swiftify Swiftify Xcode extension allows you to convert
swift All about errors, functors, monads and promises Do you want to learn how to do proper error handling in Swift? Start here. By the time you will finish reading these articles, you will have a better understanding of functional programming,
swift3 Self sizing cells with rotation support in Swift 3 It's hard to make self sizing cells, but don't worry this time I'll teach you how to do it both with table and collection views supporting orientation changes and dynamic type as well.
server Hosting git - the right way Remember this old post? Nope. Don't worry, this time I'll show the correct way how to host git repositories with access controls on a linux server. Why am I writing about this topic?
xcode Conventions for Xcode We are living in the age of extensions. Apple is opening up so much API-s that I can not even count them. This is great, but how should you organise your codebase? If
gist 16. Swift gist: String+Localized.swift This is a super handy snippet to localize strings. You can also extend NSString, but we are in a "Swift-y" world, so always use String type if it's possible. public extension
