sudo gem install not recommended

I used to install Cocoapods by following the officially recommended way

sudo gem install cocoapods

However, not anymore. Sudo might be a bad practice.

Joshua Moody in the Calabash-ios repository warns:

Using sudo is inherently dangerous.

File system may be defined as the system by which the permanent storage space of a device is organized and divided up to hold files. The file system a machine has is determined by the operating system running on that machine.… Read the rest

Persistence can be defined as saving data to a place where it can be re-accessed and retrieved upon restart of the device or app. This can mean non-volatile memory on a device or saving data to remote servers. Persistence is necessary for any app that wants to store data in the long term, that is longer than a lifecycle of a running app, and keep it available to the user.… Read the rest

Three singletons types frequently occur throughout iOS SDK and codebases. Let us name them and examine their benefits and risks. They are as follows:

class ExampleOne {
    static let shared = ExampleOne()

    private init {}
}

class ExampleTwo {
    static let shared = ExampleTwo()
}

class ExampleThree {
    static var sharedInstance = ExampleThree()
}

ExampleOne is by the book Singleton implementation.… Read the rest

It is highly likely that a development team will log informational messages, errors, and warnings. The team determines the format and log content. Mistakes can happen. The signs of trouble ahead are: application life cycle events and user touches unleash print-out hell.… Read the rest

Drinking a glass of water, glancing at the Xcode activity view as it was building a project, I saw that until the build completes, I can have another drink. Falling into such mind state came realization of measuring time in number of drinks per compilation… or being smarter than that.… Read the rest