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Saturday, August 30, 2014

So how are those special Swift initializers working out?

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Splendidly: If you're building a UIView subclass that needs to set up a mess of subviews this can get old really quick. Best option I...
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Friday, July 11, 2014

Overspeccing

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I just took my car to its biennial TüV inspection and apart from the tires that had simply worn out everything was A-OK, nothing wrong at al...
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Saturday, June 28, 2014

Compiler Writers Gone Wild: ARC Madness

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In this week's episode of CWGW: This can't possibly crash, yet crash it does. In a project I am currently working on, the top cra...
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Thursday, June 26, 2014

How to Swiftly Destroy a $370 Million Dollar Rocket with Overflow "Protection"

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Apple's new Swift programming language has been heavily promoted as being a safer alternative to Objective-C, with a much stronger empha...
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Thursday, June 19, 2014

The Safyness of Static Typing

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I like static (manifest) typing. This may come as a shock to those who have read other posts of mine, but it is true. I certainly am mor...
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Friday, June 6, 2014

Remove features for greater power, aka: Swift and Objective-C initializers

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One of the things I find curious is how Apple's new Swift language rehashes mistakes that were made in other languages. Let's take ...
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Wednesday, May 28, 2014

Why I don't mock

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Well, it's impolite, isn't it? But seriously, when I first heard about mock object testing, I was excited, because it certainly s...
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