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For a project I’m working I needed a function that returns the time zones where it’s currently 9am. I generalized the function to be able to find time zones where it’s currently any time. My Swift implementation was inspired by this...

I wrote about using Gesture Recognizers in Swift for thatthinginswift.com.

Ruby has a nice method called tap, which I wanted to try and port to Swift. To learn what it does, let’s take a look at Ruby’s documentation:

A while ago I wrote a post about implementing the builder pattern in Objective-C. Today we’re going to do the same for Swift.

Two weeks ago I wrote a post about cleaning up your application delegate with initializers. I eluded to a Configuration object in that post. I decided to make this two separate posts because they’re different concepts that happen to work...

The application delegate has a tendency to become unwieldy. It provides a ton of callbacks to respond to about every possible state change of your app. The method that grows quickest is usually...

Over the course of my short career I’ve had the opportunity to build production-quality software in many new languages. I like learning new languages. I think it makes me a better developer. My skill level is probably average in most of...

TLDR; Using NSDateFormatter’s dateFormatFromTemplate:options:locale: for 12/24 hours? Use “j” instead of “h” or “H” for the hour format.

My post about the builder pattern got great responses and a lot of people offered alternative solutions to the same problem. The most popular suggestion was to use GCC Code Block Evaluation without the separate builder object. Using the...

A while ago I reread Martin Fowler’s classic mocks aren’t stubs essay. He does a great job of explaining the different schools of TDD. In summary it basically comes down to classicists, those that build the system from business models up...