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Alberto De Bortoli

Alberto De Bortoli

Principal Software Engineer @ Just Eat Takeaway

Notes on the Developer Portal. For Dummies.

Let's make it clear. This is a post for dummies. There are some others tutorials online but I thought I could write something better focusing on the right details rather than wasting time on a brainless walkthrough. Well… here are my 50¢. It's since 2008 that

From the Eyes of an iOS Dev at JUST EAT

It has been almost 6 months since my last blog post. Things have changed quite a lot since then. Six months ago I was still excited about my travel to San Francisco for the WWDC 2014, my girlfriend still had to move from Italy to London with me and definitely

Working on tasks with an eye on open source contributions

Have you ever realized that developers are never happy with the legacy code? The definition of "legacy code" may vary: * code inherited from the previous developers of your company * code that doesn't have test suites * code that is older that 10 minutes (...) We all rarely find

Flow Controllers on iOS for a better navigation control

Since I'm in London conversations with iOS developers have reached high levels with no doubts. I love to discuss with friends and iOS devs about new ways to improve our coding. Often my best practices are very appreciated among them and a bunch of devs start applying day-by-day

The solution to FTP on iOS: GoldRaccoon

GoldRaccoon [http://albertodebortoli.github.io/GoldRaccoon/] is the iOS component to connect to a FTP service and do the following: * Download a file * Upload a file * Delete a file * Create a directory * Delete a directory * List a directory Why another Raccoon? First, because the humanity needs it. This project started

Objective-C, Zen and some satisfaction

I'm very proud to announce my last work with Luca Bernardi [http://twitter.com/luka_bernardi] "Zen and the Art of the Objective-C Craftsmanship" Available on GitHub [https://github.com/objc-zen/objc-zen-book]. We started writing this book on November 2013. The initial goal was to provide

pull to refresh

Road to circular progress pull to refresh at Beamly

Pull to refresh, this friend of ours The Pull to refresh became one of the most popular concepts used in mobile iOS apps. Loren Brichter [https://twitter.com/lorenb], the author of Tweetie for iOS introduced it for the first time in 2011 and it stood the test of time.

Asynchronous message passing with Actors in Objective-C

Actors, these strangers Although we are all in love with Objective-C, the power of a language itself is given by its inner features. Languages like Ada [https://www.adacore.com/adaanswers/about/ada] have a built-in concurrency model, while Objective-C needs external libraries (let's say libdispatch) to try

aspect oriented programming

An Aspect Oriented Programming approach to iOS Analytics

[Update 09/06/2014] On May 2014 Peter Steinberger [https://twitter.com/steipete] released Aspects [https://github.com/steipete/Aspects] inspired (a little :-) by this article and Orta [https://twitter.com/orta] and Ash Furrow [https://twitter.com/ashfurrow] improved ARAnalytics [https://github.com/orta/ARAnalytics] with a DSL

CocoaPods: working with internal pods without hassle

CocoaPods [http://cocoapods.org] is cool. I was honoured to have a chat with Fabio Pelosin [http://twitter.com/fabiopelosin], the main contributor, at the NSLondon [http://www.meetup.com/NSLondon/] meetup some time ago and see how much passion those guys put in this project. I was one of

Objective-C blocks caveat

I like blocks. I really do. It's been at least two years now I've been using them and I still make syntax mistakes, but I like them. Recently I had a long discussion with my colleagues and friends about the use of self inside blocks. I

Objective-C blocks under the hood

Recently I was asked to describe the 'under the hood' memory management of variable and objects in blocks. I think that in 2013 almost every iOS dev knows the practical usage and effect of putting the __block keyword before the declaration of a variable, but maybe what'

Sartoria Piquadro iPad app

Sartoria [http://sartoria.piquadro.com/it/] is a cool and important project for Piquadro, the famous fashion brand. I'm the sole developer of the official iPad app used in the Piquadro stores around the world. The app has been developed @ H-umus [http://h-umus.it] during 2011 with minor

iOS Lab @ Digital Accademia

I’m very proud and excited to hold a course on Object Orientation programming and iOS developing @ Digital Accademia. 11 lessons starting on June 20th 2012. Details @ digitalaccademia.com [http://www.digitalaccademia.com/labs/] UPDATE The course is finished and me, Enrico Zeffiro and Alessandro Benvenuti are very proud! The

H-Farm, H-umus and cool fashion models

My last entry here was a few months ago right after my graduation; since then, I really nevere had time to update my website. It’s good to be busy day after day… btw, it’s time to write some line about something worth writing. I started working for a