The Power Of Working Code

I like to give my partner Aaron a bit of shit about his Objective-C code. It’s the work of someone who’s only been wrapping his head around Objective-C for a year and a half – not someone who’s been using it full-time for four years. It’s copy-pasta, it’s poorly architected, it’s sometimes taking 400 steps ...

Collection Data Types In Swift: Detailed Test Results

Collection Data Types In Swift: Detailed Test Results
I wrote a piece for RayWenderlich.com about Collection Data Structures in Swift, and I did a whole lot of performance testing around it that didn’t have room to make it into that piece. I’m going to be going into waaaaay more detail and burying you in charts in this blog post if you want to ...

Force Quitting All Your “Running” iOS Apps To Save Battery Life Is Total Bunk

I had to go to the Apple Store earlier this evening to get my trackpad fixed (and they totally cranked out a fix in 10 minutes – thanks, guys!), and I overheard a Genius telling a couple complaining about the woman’s phone’s battery life that they could save battery life by force-quitting all their “running” ...