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Designing for iPhone X: What has changed?

Introduction Just last week Apple has started selling iPhone X (pronounced “Ten”) –...

Swift: Optionals Without Conditionals

Optional is far more than just a simple conditional statement. It's a great type, that has a lot up its sleeve....

Swift: Any can bite

Any and Any? in Swift are weird. We venture forth into the depth of unknown using Swift Reflection API as the...

Top 3 Markets That Will Capture the Attention of Software...

The whole world is going mobile. Smartphone apps account for almost half the time people spend on digital devices,...

Common mistakes no one bothers about – Force cast,...

Coding practices at their worst. Rant about why force in Swift should never be used.

Swift: Conventions are good, strings are bad

Simplify your life by imposing additional conventions in Swift.

Swift: Chainable Casting

Swift iflet and guard haters, you are welcome. I have an extension to the topic for you.

Common mistakes no one bothers about – Explicitness in...

Coding practices at their worst. Rant about implicitness in Swift function and property calls.

Common mistakes no one bothers about – Macros and...

Coding practices at their worst. Rant about Swift macros and compiler directives spilling into the code.