Swift Weekly – Issue 07 – The Swift Runtime (Part 5) – Operators

I thought I’d write about operators a bit in this issue. I don’t like to teach how operators work, but rather show you some cool things that we can do with operators. but then again, many websites do that already. you can just search online and find hundreds, if not thousands of blogs/websites that can teach you how to use operators and how to create your own in Swift. so how can i be different and offer something else? well, we will talk about operators in this issue and how to write your own, but, i will also show you how custom operators are compiled by the Swift compiler.

Continue reading this article on GitHub by clicking here.

Swift Weekly – Issue 05 – The Builder Pattern and Fluent Interface

A few weeks ago I started checking out some Wikipedia articles about various s/e design patterns and came across theBuilder pattern which is a Creational GoF pattern. Then as you know, I cannot just read one article in one sitting. I have to click every link that the article leads to, so I stumbled upon the article about Fluent Interfaces and I could then see the possibilities.

Note: Fluent Interfaces have nothing to do with IB or a visual interface that is displayed on the screen at all. Fluent interfaces are the way that we can write our software to ensure they are… well… fluent. Read on to understand how this works.

I don’t think fluent interfaces are the same as the builder pattern. I don’t really think fluent interface is actually a pattern at all. I believe that fluent interfaces are a concept, and a kick ass one at that. I think mixing fluent interfaces and the builder pattern will allos us to build Swift classes that are amazingly simple to use, instead of the classic OOP designs that we see on pretty much every Apple class these days. I wish Apple could read this article and (ehem), just update their iOS SDK classes for instance to use fluent interfaces and the builder pattern.

If you want to write your Swift apps in the most kick ass way, continue reading. I think this article will help you a lot not only in learning more about Swift, but also writing some really crazy code that will make your life and those around you much easier.

Click here to read the full article on GitHub.

Smileys for iPhone – Explained Through Video

Sending Emoji smileys in an SMS

Apple has a little secret… Emojis… Emoji is Japanese for “Electronic Emoticons”. There are currently more than 100 smileys and emoticons that you can enable on your iOS device, be it iPhone, iPad or iPod. But, there is a little trick involved. Watch this video to be able to send these awesome emoticons and smileys in your text messages and elsewhere in iOS: