This year in WWDC, Apple introduced Objective-C ‘lightweight’ generics for XCode7. This builds upon the improvements to Objective-C to document the code and improve the interoperability with Swift. I wrote previously about nullability annotations and I continue to be delighted by these changes to the language. Here’s what I think.

As an iOS developer or Apple-centric developer, WWDC is a time of excitement and news. The yearly event at Apple offers many networking opportunities, but most importantly sets the stage for the next year of development in the company’s platform. As this year event is closing in, I wanted to write my thoughts on a related, and often overlooked topic; fragmentation

Apple introduced nullability annotations to Objective-C compiler from XCode 6.3. I was really surprised by this change, and welcomed it with open arms when I saw the release notes. My first thought was: Objective-C is learning from Swift! I want to share my 2 cents on this new annotation and what it means for more modern Objective-C code.

I wrote a while ago a tip, mostly for my future reference, how to set up a HDD with Raspberry Pi formatted using exFat. After more intensive testing on my Samba setup, I’ve decided to go back to NTFS as my format of choice.

Having problems code signing and distributing your application written in Swift? I’ve encountered some, found solutions for them, and I’ve written a sum up for Badoo Tech blog.

Hopefully it will help anybody with similar issues and increase discoverability of the solutions.

Today I introduce a small Swift DSL to improve how complex and chained animation code looks, and reads.

I’ve recently done a short talk @Badoo about code injection. Summarized and gave a demo of my previous blog post.

Check it out if you are interested. Feedback on the talk is more than welcome, contact me

A few days ago I switched my HDD on my Raspberry Pi to a SSD drive. I use the Pi as a NAS serving files at home and I wanted to use a HDD for music with less storage but more reliability. This drive runs 24/7. I also chose exFat for the filesystem. I write this as a future self-reference, but may be useful for somebody else, so here it goes.

I’ve gradually been changing my code style favouring (Obj-C) categories and (Swift) extensions a lot more. I’ve been inspired by my other lover (Ruby). Why? Readability and code organisation.

I just finished setting up Travis CI integration with this blog. So now I don’t even need to do rake generate_deploy. Just git push to source and deploy after 3 mins. Happiness.

I based my config on Hari Menon’s post.

My small contribution to whoever happens to read this post is: Don’t forget to set up your user.name and user.email in Travis CI. Check my final travis.yml if you are curious.

Happy coding!