Writing
The public notebook: Swift, iOS, Flutter, and a long trail of “I will definitely remember this.”
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Learn iOS Development with Swift now!
Exciting news – the book I have been working on for almost two years, iOS Development with Swift, is now done, published, printed and available on Amazon or in a bookstore near you.…
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Migrating from AS3 to Swift
As iOS 11 no longer supports 32 bit apps, I’ve been revisiting an old app that was built in Flash/ActionScript3 (and packed in 32 bit) and decided it was an opportune moment…
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Migrating to Codable from NSCoding
For those who came in late: Apple introduced the `Codable` protocol in Swift 4, which allows you to encode and decode your model types to data types such as JSON and property…
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Migrating to Swift 4 / iOS 11
Ah, it’s migration season again, that time when all the Swifts fly to the fertile breeding grounds of version 4. 🙂 In the past, migrating your code was a big deal when…
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Updating push services certificate in heroku
Well, it was a year ago that I updated my app Grabble Words to use Parse Server (for storing data in the cloud) via herokuapp (for running applications in the cloud) and mongodb (database hosting service).…
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Get started with iOS in Swift today
Are you thinking about getting into iOS in Swift, and are looking for an all-in-one guide? I have just the book for you. iOS Development with Swift brings you into the world of…
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Size classes in Xcode 8
More devices, split view controllers (introduced in iOS 8), slide over and split view multitasking modes (introduced in iOS 9) have all made adjusting a layout to its environment more and more complex.…
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Sprite Kit Easing in Swift
It really is surprising that SpriteKit, Apple’s framework for building 2D games doesn’t have better easing algorithms available. I’ve just updated my solution, SpriteKitEasingSwift, to Swift 3, and added Carthage support. Here it is at…
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Xcode Keyboard Shortcut for CamelCase!
Sometimes it can be a pain moving around code in Xcode especially with long method and property names. Then I discovered an Xcode keyboard shortcut that rocks – move back and forward through camel case…