When I first started working with enumerations and switch statements in Swift, I found them immediately easy to use. I also appreciated the usefulness of being able to add properties and methods to an enumeration. Very nice! However there were a number of subtleties that eluded me initially, and took

“Mobile teams should have a passion for their platform — not just a passion for technology in general.”In today’s incredibly fast-paced world of mobile innovation, we need development teams that LOVE THEIR MOBILE PLATFORM. If you want to build killer mobile apps, — that is, apps that your users actually

New Capabilities Work With Native Swift TypesStructs, enums, and classes are all now able to take advantage of customizable, automatic encoding and decoding functionality in Swift 4.Swift 4 adds new protocols, Encodable and Decodable (and for convenience, a typealias, Codable, defined as Encodable & Decodable) that define the behavior

In Swift, a tuple is a parenthesized list of two or more elements of any type. For example, (0.5, "foo") is a tuple where the first element is a Double, and the second is a String. One of the key benefits tuples provide is that they make it possible

iOS apps commonly store and retrieve JSON data via REST APIs. Consequently, many development teams initially spend some time formulating an approach for decoding model objects from JSON, and (usually) vice versa. And due diligence requires sifting through a substantial number of frameworks, both in Objective-C and Swift, that provide

How many projects have you worked on where the client wants to throw in every feature and action they can think of? It often seems they want their app to have everything, plus the kitchen sink. And once they've specified some huge set of features, how do they want them

Among the services we offer is an assesment that can span everything from mobile and cloud strategy, to enterprise architecture, process and methodology, design, testing strategy, software tools, and even an in-depth analysis of existing codebases. After conducting a number of these assessments, I noticed a trend. Many of the

Last decade was SOA services. This decade is REST services. These days it seems just about everyone is doing REST --- but are they doing it well? From all the evidence, it seems most enterprise IT organizations are struggling with the transition from SOA to REST. And it turns out

Congratulations to the About Objects team at DIRECTV for their well-received implementation of the NFL Sunday Ticket Chromecast app. The app is currently featured by Google, and was highlighted in Google’s September 2015 new Chromecast release as a premier example of a powerful, second screen Chromecast experience. Integrating ChromecastGiven