A tree in the forest

Xcode is the core tool for Apple development. Although it is well-integrated with the most development workflows, from time to time you might feel like missing some basic features. In this article you will learn how to create Xcode Source Editor Extension…

A big problem currently unresolved in the swift world is in regards to enums. Filtering and equating enums in swift is verbose and might require some extra helper function or computed var on the enum itself.

This week, let's take a look at how we can be inspired by the functional programming world to improve the structure and robustness of our Swift code - this time focusing on using functions that return objects and values as early as possible.

A list of SaaS, PaaS and IaaS offerings that have free tiers of interest to devops and infradev - ripienaar/free-for-dev

Collection of advice on optimizing compile times of Swift projects. - fastred/Optimizing-Swift-Build-Times

This post guides you thorugh a few iterations we followed to achieve our new comic reader zoom feature.

Behind all the coding that we are doing, you probably have noticed some of your variables with the reference of strong, weak or unowned when writing your codes.  What do they really mean? Does it make your variable stronger by declaring all with the reference…

A new, open source library for Dapps

Today’s iPhones are packed with a full complement of sensors that includes cameras, barometers, gyroscopes, magnetometers, and accelerometers. Like humans, they use permutations of different sensory information to make determinations about their position…

Design goals, features and implementation

You can also read this article in my Xcoding With Alfian blog website using the link below.

Become a better Swift developer by learning how to apply SOLID principles in your own code! SOLID stands for five guiding principles for OOP programming.

There’s been some great changes to playgrounds in Xcode 10 that will make your code even easier to prototype than ever before. Let’s take a look at some of the changes.  In Xcode 10 ope…

Bellman-Ford algorithm is a very versatile algorithm for finding the shortest path on an edge weighted digraph. In this article we'll implement it in swift.