Unit Testing for iOS References

July 24, 2013development, ios, Speech References, TDD, TDD in Objective-C

Here are some links to resources I tend to mention in my iOS Unit Testing presentations. They are excellent resources for anyone trying to start unit testing their iOS apps. Books: Test Driven iOS Development – Graham Lee Blogs: Quality Coding iOS Unit Testing Screencasts: UIViewController TDD TDD Kata for iOS: MVP (Model-View-Presenter) Pattern Not…

Summer/Fall Speaking Engagements

July 22, 2013Uncategorized

Our fearless leader, Jaim Zuber, will be talking Unit Testing for iOS at the following upcoming events: Twin Cities iPhone DevelopersÂ -Â Wednesday, July 24. 6 PM at the Nerdery in Bloomington, Minnesota Minnesota Developers ConferenceÂ – Thursday,Â September 26th at the DoubleTree Hotel in Bloomington, Minnesota We’d like to see Jaim take this show on the road. If…

Dependency injection is not a virtue in Objective-C

March 20, 2013development, ios, TDD, TDD in Objective-C

David Heinimeier Hansson recently chastised Rubyists for an increasing reliance on Dependency Injection. Here’s the article for those who haven’t seen it. tl;dr Dependency Injection is mostly unneeded in dynamic languages. Rubyists who use DI are Java wannabes. Now, I come from a strong statically typed background. I cut my teeth on C++ and most…

Using Legacy C++ code in Objective-C

March 7, 2013development, ios, Legacy Code, Mixing C++ and Objective-C, Objective-C++

For the past 6 months I’ve been working with a client to bring an existing C++ application to the iPad. This is an application that’s been around for a long time. How old? Some of the code was written when this guy was cool. We needed to initialize a large C++ library from our iOS…