objective-c - Alberto De Bortoli

Alberto De Bortoli

objective-c

A collection of 7 posts

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

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

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'