This article is intended for those of you that you love and abuse the “manager” concept. I know you’re there, don’t try to hide yourself :). The idea of a manager quickly gets into the mind of a developer when he designs a project. Sooner or later, you’ll need a manager that will coordinate some […]
Month: March 2015
A promise implementation for objective-c: CKPromise
Now that we went through all promise technical details in the past articles: Promises and ObjectiveC: no more callback hell, Promises: basics, and Promises: advanced, it’s time to discuss about one of the available implementations, and for subjective reasons I chose CKPromise. Other good implementations that I know of are PromiseKit and RXPromise. CKPromise focuses only on […]
Promises: advanced
In the previous article we discussed about the basics of promises: what are and how can be used. Today I will bring into discussion the most powerful feature of promises: chaining. But first I just want to take a short detour and mention that as the standard for promises emerged on the Javascript platform, it allows completion […]
Promises: basics
In my previous article, I introduced the concept of promise, a technique that allows us to write async code in a more sync-ish manner. In this article and the following ones I will try to dive into the definition and expectancies of a promise. So what is a promise? A promise represents the eventual result of an asynchronous operation. This […]
Promises and ObjectiveC: no more callback hell
If you worked with asynchronous tasks in iOS apps, chances are that you have run into problems when implementing chains of async operations, like when it comes to talking to a server API. Let’s take an example. Supposing you have to implement a library app and you need to add support for inserting a new book. And supposing […]
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