Manual Swift: Understanding the Swift/Objective-C Build Pipeline
iOS Leveling UpEvery build pipeline is an opportunity for leaks and stoppages. Understanding how all the bits come together to make a functioning app helps you...
Articulation Accents
iOS Leveling UpIs it possible to ask a question that leads you directly to fixing a bug? If so, how do you find those questions to...
What Does ‘Don’t Test The Framework’ Mean?
Leveling UpWhen you're trying to get into testing, often you may hear the advice 'don't test the framework'. This made sense to me at first,...
Breaking Up Is Hard To Do: How to Decompose Your Code
Back-End Full-Stack Web Leveling UpMaybe you're convinced of the value of breaking large chunks of code into smaller pieces, but are you familiar with the different ways it...
Why I’m Still Working at Big Nerd Ranch
Clients Leveling UpIt’s my third year working at Big Nerd Ranch as a developer and instructor. Inevitably, I have a lot of friends (and recruiters) asking...
Creating a Custom XCTest Assertion
iOS Leveling Up MacApple's bundled test framework XCTest provides a very limited, general collection of assertions. These get the job done much of the time, but sometimes...
Debugging as the Gateway to Testing
Leveling UpAutomated testing is the software equivalent of eating your vegetables. You could, you should, but... eh, maybe next time. But then "next time" never...
How to Write Great Demo Apps
Leveling UpWe love to teach here at Big Nerd Ranch, but we don’t just teach classes. We write blog posts and speak at conferences, too....
Considerate Commenting
Leveling UpComments have been the target of much negative advice—delete them! rewrite to eliminate them!—but little positive advice. Let’s take a look at why they get...
Learning Through Teaching
Leveling UpA few weeks ago, I had the pleasure of helping to teach the Big Nerd Ranch Ruby on the Server course with fellow Nerd...
A Lurking Horror in Debugging
iOS Leveling Up Mac…and upon looking into the face of indescribable horror, a bug so unfathomably odd that it shook the foundations of all meager...
