Weekend Reading, August 19, 2016

Published: Fri, 08/19/16

August 19, 2016

Happy Friday fellow Clean Swifters. Who’s watching the Olympics? There’s something that professional software engineering has in common with professional sports: practice makes perfect.

How do you practice your craft?

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Reading is a big part of how I stay up to date, and I use the weekends as catch up time. Here’s what I’ll be reading this weekend.

Happy cleaning, Andy

How To Be a Better Developer with Programming Challenges

Ray Wenderlich

When prepping to interview at Google, the recruiter actually suggested I use TopCoder to practice coding problems. Looks like there are a lot of other great ideas in here to sharpen your axe.

Three Strategies to Keep View Controllers Skinny

Cocoacasts

I’m always looking for new ideas on how to refactor my view controllers to keep them skinny.

Swift: Typecasing

Medium

Enums …as data models?

Setting Up Firebase Without Using CocoaPods

mokacoding

This article jumped out at me because I had noticed in Google documentation that to use Firebase in an iOS app you MUST use Cocoapods > 1.0 for installation. That isn’t always possible so I wanted to see what Mokagio came up with.

iOS Security 101

swifting.io

I think sometimes the high level, super encapsulated, APIs available from Apple and other 3rd parties make it easy to overlook the verification of security in our apps. This looked like a good article to remind yourself not to take it for granted.