All development and changes to a product comes associated with risk. The risk of building the wrong thing, the risk of building features that does not speak to the users, the risk of introducing bugs. The list goes on and on!
What is a “potentially releasable product increment”, really? Last year I worked as Scrum Master in a team that delivered software for multiple target platforms. One of the products was a mobile application. The mobile application was target for multiple markets and regions and needed multi-lingual support. One of the features in the application was to switch between different languages inside of the application (the app runs on a device available to a range of people with possibly different primary native language).
When you are working with Apples Foundation framework you have probably stumbled across NS_ENUM and NS_OPTIONS (since iOS 6 and OS X Mountain Lion). Both NS_ENUM and NS_OPTIONS are marcros that use the C enum under the hood, and if you have used C enums before you will probably understand these macros, kind of, right away.
Last year at WWDC, Apple released their new programming language, Swift. The development of the language has progressed real quick since the release, and by now Swift 2 is in Beta and available to developers through Apples Developer Portal. The release has been a great success and Swift has become one of the most beloved programming languages out there! As a twist, the language is also expected to be released as open-source this fall.
If you are a PC user you may have seen the Windows-button on your keyboard. But if you are a hardcore Mac user, as I am, you have probably seen and used the command-key [ ⌘ ] instead. But have you ever wondered what the symbol actually stand for?