A few years ago I left my comfortable career of managing the live production environment for churches to study in the new-at-the-time iOS development program at Lambda School (now called Bloom Institute of Technology). I spent basically all day every day for nine months reading and writing Swift and learning how to build iOS apps. Since I finished that program I have worked on a few apps, learned as much as I can, and most recently landed at a company called Hallow. I continue to learn as I go, and I try to document the progress when I can. If you're interested in following along with that, checkout dilloncodes.com.
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Oct 22, 2022 · 13 min read · Completion handlers are everywhere in Swift. They are commonly used in Apple's frameworks and many third-party libraries. They are often put forward as an alternative to delegation and the target action pattern, especially in the context of long-runn...
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Sep 3, 2022 · 11 min read · The Kindling My journey to start developing software as my livelihood took a while. Looking back, I realize that I was always sort of around computers. I grew up in the age when regular people started using the internet. I had to take a few typing an...
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Aug 29, 2022 · 3 min read · I ran into this cool little piece of functionality in Xcode the other day that helped me solve a real problem. I have never seen anyone mention that you can do this, so I'm sharing it here in the hopes that it will help someone else out. I was recent...
Join discussionAug 27, 2022 · 13 min read · We all know how it goes when we are trying to get something working. We want to get there as fast as we can and we get focused on the "happy path". Maybe we're not that familiar with the technology/language/concept, but we have one specific goal or t...
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May 25, 2022 · 8 min read · Swift has many features that allow us as the users of the language to customize how we write code, while still giving us all the protections of a statically typed language. Today we're going to talk about one of those features which seems small, but ...
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