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.

This week, let’s take a look at how we can use the presenter pattern to move some code normally contained within view controllers - specifically related to the presentation of additional UIs - into separate, dedicated types, to improve our separation of concerns.

This week, let's take a look at how we can implement data sources for table and collection views in a more reusable manner, and how doing so can let us make our list-based UI code more composable and easier to work with.

Check out our blog post Icing on the Slice: Providing more value to users with multiple actions from Big Nerd Ranch. Learn more and read it now!