Every long running project accrues technical debt. It may be that the requirements today have evolved in a different direction from what was foreseen when the project was designed, or it may be that difficult infrastructure tasks have been put off in favor of new functionality. From time to time, you need to refactor your […]
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Author: Rik van den Ende
Server side applications in Apple’s Swift
In 2014, Apple announced the release of Swift, a new programming language for all their platforms. Their programming language of choice on iOS and OSX has always been Objective-c, a language which is a bit dated (it predates C++) and as it has had new features (and syntaxes) bolted onto it every few years, it carries […]
Simulating a bad network for testing
In a development environment, and often in the test and QA environments as well, we are thankfully blessed with a network that is for all intents and purposes infinitely fast, infinitely reliable and not shared with anyone else. Sometimes this causes you to miss a bug that only becomes apparent once your application has been […]