Bart Jacobs

Learn about an alternative to the MVC pattern: Model-View-ViewModel. I'll show you how MVVM can resolve some of the shortcomings of Model-View-Controller.

Model-View-Controller (MVC) is a widespread software development pattern. Learn what MVC is and why it may not be the best solution for Cocoa developers.

That was quite the keynote, don't you think? What surprised me most was the fast pace. It was clear that Apple had a lot to announce to developers and the...

Enumerations are a common design pattern in many programming languages. While you may be familiar with enumerations in C and Objective-C, Swift's...

In the previous lessons of Swift From Scratch, we created a functional to-do application. The data model could use some love, though. In this final lesson,...

In the previous lesson, we added the ability to create to-do items. While this addition has made the application a bit more useful, it would also be...

In the previous lesson, you created your first Swift project in Xcode, a simple to-do application. In this installment of Swift From Scratch, we're going to...

While playgrounds are a great tool to play with Swift and learn the language, it's time to move on and create our first Swift project in Xcode. In this...

In the previous articles of this series, we covered the basics of the Swift programming language. If you followed along, you should now have a solid...

If you've worked with blocks in C or Objective-C or with lambdas in Ruby, then you won't have a hard time wrapping your head around the concept of closures....

In the previous article, we explored the basics of functions in Swift. Functions, however, have a lot more to offer. In this article, we continue our...

To get anything done in Swift, you need to learn the ins and outs of functions. Functions are exceptionally powerful and flexible in Swift. The basics are...