Another year is behind us my friends. One more year of writing articles and another 52 of them in the archive. I’m happy to say, we didn’t miss a single week and managed to publish one article per week for the whole year.
I would like to take this opportunity to thank you, my dear readers, for reading the blog. Quite a few of you shared the links on your social networks and spread the word… Thank you very much for that, you’re awesome!
The Content
The content on the blog was a bit more diverse this year than it was the last year. This year we’ve talked a lot about design patterns in swift. We had a whole series of articles on the topic:
We also ventured into the algorithms and data structures. Some of the more interesting articles on the topic are:
- Genetic Algorithms in Swift: Solving TSP
- Dijkstra’s Algorithm in Swift
- Bellman-Ford Algorithm in Swift
- Building the Enigma Machine in Swift
- Binary Search Trees in Swift
- Queue With Doubly Linked List in Swift
Top List
Here are the most read articles for the year 2018:
- Understanding Operation and OperationQueue in Swift
- Sharing Data Between Applications and Extensions Using App Groups
- Debugging on iOS With Unified Logging System
- Swift 4 Codable in Real life
- Implementing a Stack Using a Linked List Data Structure
Personal Favourites
I wanted to pick one favourite article in the whole year. But, to be honest, I’m struggling between the two. My two favourite articles were: solving the TSP problem with genetic algorithms and building the enigma machine in swift.
Ever since college I was interested in genetic algorithms, AI, machine learning… Genetic algorithms is a topic that was familiar to me because I wrote a short paper on them during my college years in c++. I’ve used what I’ve learned in college to come up with this genetic algorithm in swift and I have to say, that was a lot of fun to write and to code.
Before writing the fully functional enigma machine in swift, I watched a lot of world war 2 documentaries. Like most of you, I knew about the enigma machine. But after watching all those documentaries, I really wanted to understand how it worked. I stumbled upon a great video lecture by David Perry from NSA and, well, the enigma in swift was born 🙂
In the next year, I hope to write a few more articles like these two. They’re really fun to work on, and everyone seems to love them 🙂
Friends
We had some of my friends writing articles for you. You all know Liban. He started writing for you in 2017 and he continued this year as well. He specialises in security and forensics. So, naturally, he started a series on iOS security and forensics.
Giuseppe also wrote a bit for you this year. He found a great new use for enums 🙂 One more friend started writing this year; Yurii. He’ll be focusing on cross-platform development.
I would like to take the opportunity to thank my friends: Liban, Peppe and Yurii. Thank you for helping me with the blog and thank you for sharing your great articles with the community. You guys are awesome 🙂
The Community
During the year a lot of the articles were mentioned in well-known newsletters like: indie iOS focus weekly, AppCoda Weekly and iOS Dev Weekly, to name a few. The blog even got included in the top 30 swift development blogs by feedspot 🙂 A big thanks for that 🙂
If you want to stay on top of all the articles and be the first one to read the article, the best thing would be to subscribe to the newsletter. If that’s too much of a hassle for you, you can always follow me on most social networks and get your updates there.
Parting Words
Not much left to say, other than a big thank you to all of you for reading the blog. Let’s see what 2019 has in store for us and what we come up with 🙂
Happy New Year my friends and may it be a good one 🙂
Have a nice day 🙂
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