Tutorials

The quicksort algorithm is a fundamental sorting algorithm in computer science.  A while back I was looking through my old Objective-C archives and found a quicksort implementation that I had created that never seen the light of day in any project.  To get some use out of this code  and to share this implementation with anyone looking for a quicksort algorithm I thought I would write a brief tutorial on how my implementation of quicksort works in Objective-C.  First, before we get started though there are a few things to keep in mind about this tutorial.  The first is that this tutorial was

In mid-December of 2017 a proposal went into review for the Swift language entitled, “SE-0192 – Non-Exhaustive Enums.”  In this proposal the Swift core team outlined a change to allow switch statements that consume enum types to be non-exhaustive or exhaustive, depending upon their needs.   The motivation behind this change was to allow for the easier additions to C based Enums in Apple or third party libraries without creating source breaking changes in projects downstream.

Writing unit testing is a cornerstone of software development.  When developing mobile or desktop applications, unit testing becomes even more critical, as there is often vital business logic that needs to be validated.  Have you ever found yourself wondering; what makes a great unit test in Swift? What key components give my application enough testing coverage to make sure that everything works and nothing regresses when new code is added to my project?  If you have asked yourself these questions then you are not alone.  In fact, that is why I wanted to write this tutorial.

In the last couple of months I have found myself in situations where I have needed to diagnose transport security issues from from the context of an iOS application.  This often can be difficult from the client side perspective as you may not know anything about the minimum TLS version, preferred cipher suite, or the certificate in use on the server.  Often, the best move you have, if you do not have a direct line to the server side team, is to test different settings to diagnose what works and what does not.

So there you are, you just finished the last lines of code needed to complete a ticket on one of the big features of your application.  Now what?  Submit a pull request and have your team review it?