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A client showed us their designs. Among them, an animated globe. Core to the UI delightfulness, technically non-trivial, the kind of thing that usually gets a "we'll figure it out during development" footnote in proposals. I decided to check how hard it actually was.
Most people treat promotions like gifts. They say yes immediately, afraid the offer might disappear. Then six months later they're drowning in a role they never properly understood, working for someone they wouldn't have chosen, wondering what went wrong.
You can read dozens of leadership books and still not know whether your boss is any good. Most frameworks are either too abstract ("be authentic!") or too narrow ("here's how to run a 1:1"). Here is a list of traits I actually look for when evaluating leaders - whether I'm hiring, promoting, or figuring out if the person above me is worth following.
You hire people you think are great performers. Their performance turns out average.
If you've learned to delegate well, asking clearly, giving context, setting reasonable deadlines, but your team is still burning out, the problem probably isn't in how you're asking for work.
When people talk about modular architecture, they usually mention the same benefits: faster builds, easier testing, clearer ownership. All true. But there's one scenario where modularization quietly proves its worth, and it rarely comes up in architecture discussions: Merging two applications into one.
Most discussions about mobile analytics focus on funnels, retention curves, and A/B test results. That's the product manager's view. From an engineering perspective, analytics may solve a completely different set of problems.
Have you ever felt the ineffectiveness of a team whose member you are? Have you struggled that the team’s decisions are not the same as yours and you didn’t understand that? Maybe you felt that all the team members point in different directions.
Have you ever wondered what we do as software development teams or what is our long-term purpose? Having such a perspective on why we do things as a team is extremely powerful but sometimes difficult to define.
XcodeGen is a tool for improving the generation of .xcodeproj files and their maintenance over time. By defining a simple YAML manifest you get a whole .xcodeproj in seconds. But that’s not everything! There is one more built-in feature — dependency graphs. In this article, I would like to cover possible use cases of a such graph.
Several times in my “leadership career” I heard an opinion that the team I lead is not “my team”.
When it comes to modularisation on Apple platforms, development teams point must deal with adding a new module at some point. In this article, I would like to present my approach to automating this work.
Every development team that works with the product has a Product Manager. Sometimes it’s a Manager that works on a daily basis with a team, sometimes it’s a guy that catches up with the team once per week. Whatever the relation is this person usually tells the team what to do next and why it matters. Sounds familiar?
A typical iOS project based on the Combine framework at some point defines interfaces that are represented by ‘AnyPublisher’ or ‘AnySubscriber’.
Supporting people's growth is probably one of my favorite team leader “duties”. When writing this article I’ve been a leader for more than 2 years and I must say, I’ve been doing it wrong for most of this time…
Hey, today I would like to say a few words about my experiences with testing applications. It's a compilation of what I've tried so far with tests through many languages and technologies but especially related to the ones from Apple.
Welcome back to the story of iOS CI at AppUnite company.
It's almost the end of 2019 - exactly 3 years after the U.S. presidential election and maybe America isn't made great again but we all need to admit that it was a pretty good electoral slogan.
Some time ago, when I started working with Reactive Programming concept for developing iOS applications I struggled a lot with testing such products.
A Product Owner doesn’t see any business value in adding automated tests to a project - this problem concerns many projects and software developers.
In this article I want to share my experience with building dependencies by using Carthage. First of all, Carthage shines with simplicity. It's very simple to start using some external dependency in a Xcode project just by adding proper line into Cartfile and running carthage update. But as we all know, life is brutal and sometimes we need to consider more complex examples.