Swift Coding Conventions: Writing Maintainable, Readable, and Elegant Code

Swift, Apple’s programming language for app development, emphasizes best practices to enhance code quality. Key conventions include using camelCase for naming, favoring constants with ‘let’, utilizing structs over classes, and handling optionals safely. Adopting protocols, leveraging type inference, organizing code with extensions, and writing idiomatic Swift improves maintainability and collaboration. Continue reading →

Getting Started with Swift, For NON-Apple Devs

This past weekend I attempted to get started with Swift coding. Since I have not been an Apple Developer for a while, it wasn’t immediately obvious how to get started. But once I fumbled around a few minutes I realized I needed a developer account to get the latest XCode. Jeez, it really shows how... Continue reading →

Apple iOS / OS-X vs. Windows 8 / RT == OS Goulash & Predictions

Ok, I’ll admit it, I have a soft spot in my heart for Windows 8. At least in the tablet form. I honestly prefer it over the iPad model of little icons displayed in a grid over a background with the bar of app icons at the bottom. Don’t get me wrong, I find the... Continue reading →