The Next Thing
I debated about what to write about today, especially in the wake of yesterday's WWDC ticket frenzy, the subsequent online screaming about it, and everything else. I think in th...
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Best Practices
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Unit Testing for Fun and Profit
How do you know if your code works? You test it of course. But, how do you test your code? Do you run it in the simulator? On your device? Is that enough? The simple answer is:...
Later Never Comes
What is the cost of expedience? Answer: Technical debt. How often have you had to solve a problem quickly, knowing that your solution was correct (i.e. it works), but not really...
Pro Tip: Data Types Matter
I made a stupid mistake recently, which cost me more than a few hours of time to figure out. But I learned a couple things: Xcode will let you dig as deep a hole as you like, de...
The Last Word on Many From One
It turns out that building multiple targets from one source code base is both easy and hard, both simple and complex. It all depends not only on the ultimate products you want t...
Many From One, Again
Several months ago I wrote about some tricks I was using to build many targets from one code base . The rubber is meeting the road on that project as we get closer to being read...
The Stunning Utility of Global Classes
Set aside any ideas you may have that global data is evil. If you spend any time on the StackOverflow website, you've likely seen questions like "How do I share data from one vi...