Careful With “Singleton” Lookalikes (WAY TOO COMMON)

Careful With “Singleton” Lookalikes (WAY TOO COMMON)

Have you ever been told that Singleton is an anti-pattern? Well, Singletons can be ok, but if you are not careful, they aren’t just an anti-pattern. THEY CAN BE DANGEROUS!

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“How do you think when writing tests?” – It’s simpler than you may think

“How do you think when writing tests?” – It’s simpler than you may think

In this episode, we reply to an important question raised by a member of our community.

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XCTest + Swift: SetUp/TearDown vs Factory Methods

XCTest + Swift: SetUp/TearDown vs Factory Methods

In this episode, we dive into `XCTestCase`’s lifecycle and show different ways for configuring your system under test.

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iOS Interview Experience – 7 Essential Nontechnical Skills

iOS Interview Experience – 7 Essential Nontechnical Skills

Have you ever had an iOS interview experience, never heard back and wondered what went wrong? In this article, we’d like to share some reasons why that might have happened.

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Migrating to Swift 4.2 using a TDD + Git workflow [S01 Extras]

Migrating to Swift 4.2 using a TDD + Git workflow [S01 Extras]

In this episode, we migrate the Quiz project and its dependencies to Swift 4.2 and modernize our code with the newest additions.

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#1 Reason Why You Don’t Improve As a Software Developer

#1 Reason Why You Don’t Improve As a Software Developer

In this video, we are going to discuss the main reason why we set goals to improve but sometimes cannot achieve them.

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Clean iOS Architecture pt.7: VIP (Clean Swift) – Design Pattern or Architecture?

Clean iOS Architecture pt.7: VIP (Clean Swift) – Design Pattern or Architecture?

Today we're going to analyze the VIP (Clean Swift) Architecture. And, as we did in previous videos with VIPER, MVC, MVVM, and MVP, we will decide if we can call VIP a Software Architecture or a Design Pattern.

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Clean iOS Architecture pt.6: VIPER – Design Pattern or Architecture?

Clean iOS Architecture pt.6: VIPER – Design Pattern or Architecture?

Today we're going to analyze the VIPER iOS Architecture and decide if we can call it a Software Architecture or a Design Pattern like the MVC, MVVM and MVP design patterns we talked about in the previous video.

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Clean iOS Architecture pt.4: Clean Memory Management in Swift with WeakRef

Clean iOS Architecture pt.4: Clean Memory Management in Swift with WeakRef

We must be careful with `weak` properties as they can sometimes damage the design of our systems, especially when crossing module boundaries. In this video, we’d like to share with you a way to avoid retain cycles by using a `WeakRef` type, so there's no need to make your class properties `weak`.

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Composing View Controllers pt.4: Integration Tests vs. Contract Tests vs. UI Tests

Composing View Controllers pt.4: Integration Tests vs. Contract Tests vs. UI Tests

In this video, we're going to improve our `Swift View Controller Lifecycle Observers` by increasing the test confidence with Integration Tests.

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