We built our lives on the internet too quickly. We trust online without facts or basis to justify them. The truth is that it’s too much effort to verify and carefully vet the people and businesses that we work with online. We want to believe that most people are trustworthy…

Startups offer many gifts in the form of opportunities and Encantos is no different. We are filled with rewards for the right type of developer. A startup is by definition a fast moving beast with lots of uncertainty and unknowns; providing opportunities to assume real responsibilities well before you would…

SwiftUI is Apple’s new framework for making user interfaces. If you have ever built a web application using a declarative framework like React or Vue.js, you will feel right at home using SwiftUI. If not, you’re welcome too. This is part 1 of a 3 part series to teach you…

In my last article, I kicked off our discussion on design patterns in Swift by outlining how to use the Factory pattern. The Factory pattern is way to encapsulate the details of creating an object that adheres to a common base class or interface. If you haven’t read that post…

As a budding computer scientist, you no doubt have heard of design patterns in your classes and learning paths. Design patterns are blueprints which outline the best practices that create re-usable object oriented code, solving common software problems. To avoid giving you a long history lesson, I will describe the…

Just a few years back, we were all talking about mobile being the future. That’s no longer the case.. mobile is the present. It’s the here and now of business. Mobile apps serve as the tipping point that will increase sales and customer satisfaction. …

iMessage apps are Apple’s latest attempt to fuel more conversations using iOS devices. With just a little code, you can create an extension…

I have a fascination and deep passion for learning. Recently, I developed a hypothesis that I could apply the principles of game making to app development to improve experiences for my users. Lots of people throw around terms like “Gamification” as buzzwords that will cure the ails of your application…

I have a confession. I love the web, and the language of the web is JavaScript. There are so many libraries written in JavaScript that I frankly think it’s silly to have to recreate those for other languages. …