Originally published on Connected’s website.
Recorded Toronto CocoaHeads talk (15 minutes)
I explore the important issue of context in a team project environment, and offer some tips to help manage it.
Express impossible code in Swift with Never
Originally published on Medium.
Recorded talk using Playgrounds (10 minutes)
This article will help you understand Swift’s Never type and it’s usefulness via two real-world examples.
Making Sense of FlatMap: An Rx Story
Roll your own Swift networking code
My tolerance for adopting 3rd party libraries is relatively low - and networking is no different. In this post I describe a pattern to help write your own networking code.
Error producing functions should throw, not return Optionals
Perhaps a more obvious topic, but I’ve been seeing this type of thing recently, and I’m always confused by it. Here’s a rundown on how I like to handle errors for flexibility and expressiveness.
Thread-Safe Swift Dependency Injection
Is your Swift DI implementation completely safe? That’s what we thought until we uncovered a strange Swift implementation. Here we expose the issue and resolve it in a thread-safe way.
Handling web view requests using the Chain of Responsibility pattern
A real world application of the Chain of Responsibility pattern to help handling web requests inside of an iOS web view.
Strategy pattern done with Functional Programming
A quick, simple technique to help transition your Object Oriented code to a more functional style.
Liquid smooth iOS collection view scrolling with lots of images
An implementation of how I achieved smooth scrolling with lots of images that needed dynamic sizing and tinting.
Be Better By Being Present
Making an effort to being present makes me a better software engineer, and a better person overall.