Confessions of a Swift Addict

Running Swift unit tests from the CLI

Thu, 16 Aug 2018 21:21:04 +0200

Interviewing Aaron Hillegass

Tue, 03 Jan 2017 12:21:04 +0100

Swift 3 Conversion Steps. Or “The 9 steps to Swift bliss”

Mon, 10 Oct 2016 11:19:33 +0200

Every time Apple decided to bring out a new version of Swift, I’d dive headfirst and start the conversion — the sooner the better. None of the past versions were such a nightmare as from Swift 2.1 to 3.0.

Advanced Debugging in Xcode and Swift

Sat, 04 Jul 2015 14:14:16 +0200

I was reading a post by Natasha The Robot about Xcode Debug Tips. (must read!) She talks about a WWDC2015 video ‘Advanced Debugging and the Address Sanitizer‘. This shows a really cool trick for debugging. I took Natasha’s advice and I’d like to show you some more tricks of my own to help you with your debugging.

Playing with iBeacons on iOS - A Guide

Thu, 07 Aug 2014 11:08:03 +0200

Git autocompletion and autocorrect.

Wed, 30 Apr 2014 10:52:36 +0200

At work I use Git alot. Most of the time I type too fast and my screen produces jibrish, commonly known as typos. To prevent this frmo happening, there is a fix.

Git itself has a bunch of configuration options to customise behaviour, preferences and visual appearance.

Code Reviews

Thu, 06 Feb 2014 18:21:20 +0100

For the last months I’ve been doing a lot of Objective-C. Got a new job and only focus on iOS development. Since I am the new guy in the team, I learn a lot by looking at code from my peers (and looking at code in general). And even though I have a lot of ActionScript experience under my belt, I’m starting fresh with Objective-C. Frustrating at times, awesome most of the time. I love being the new guy. I get to ask dumb questions, can still write silly code and make a lot of beginners mistakes. And challenge my peers by having Shoshin or beginners mind.

Interviewing Grant Skinner for Project Touch

Fri, 02 Aug 2013 17:17:13 +0200

I have something to confess – One of my all time heroes is Grant Skinner. Ever since I got into Flash, version 4 at the time, he was already making amazing stuff and pushing it’s limits. When I was contacted two weeks ago to interview him, it took literally nanoseconds to formulate my answer. “YES!”.

The big secrets to writing a technical book - Top 10 lessons learned

Tue, 18 Oct 2011 18:20:51 +0200

While writing my ‘Automating ActionScript Projects with Eclipse and Ant’ book, I ran into a lot of problems that I hadn’t run into. Since I hadn’t written a book and was used to blog posts and articles. Writing a blog is completely different; you don’t have a strict deadline, you can write when you want or when you have an good idea. Book writing is different cake.