Build Phase

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Build Phase episodes

October 15, 201459: Cognitive Capital
Mark and Gordon discuss fmap and apply in Swift as they pertain to Optional values, and how these functional concepts can add cleanliness and clarity to everyday patterns.
CocoaConf Seattle
Argo
Functional Swift for dealing with Optional values
Roster PR that inspired the blog post
41 min
October 08, 201458: Saving Lives
This week, a lone recruiter appeared on one of our pull requests. He used 'recruit'. It wasn't very effective. This gave Gordon and Mark plenty of fodder to kick the episode off. The fellas discussed a new, major release of Liftoff that adds support for custom build settings and the generation of Swift projects. The use of TDD as a design tool becomes they topic as they discuss Roster, a Swift application under development for internal thoughtbot use.
A bold recruiter peddles his job offers on our pull request. (Context captured in screenshots)
Liftoff 1.4
Roster, an internal thoughtbot Swift app
Armored bulldozer destroys town
Dude in San Diego steals tank, goes on rampage
32 min
October 02, 201457: The Properties of Glass
Mark and Gordon vent about this week's internet stupidity, and then discuss MVVM and whether or not it's worth the effort in simple applications.
Wikipedia page on Shellshock (Bash bug)
A Bug Called Bash
iPhone 6 plus bend "test"
Roster
Quick
Nimble
37 min
September 26, 201456: Brackety Splat
Mark and Gordon continue to talk about functional concepts in Swift, this time looking at real world applications in iOS development.
Efficient JSON in Swift with Functional Concepts and Generics (Part 1 of the series)
Real World JSON Parsing with Swift (Part 2 of the series)
JSON parsing example without operators
Functional operations in cell configuration
Roster
43 min
September 17, 201455: Dad Stuff
This week Mark and Gordon discuss type safety and functional programming in Swift (again), the finer points of making your application accessible, and the only way you should be seeing movies in this day and age.
Chestnut Hill SuperLux
Alamo Drafthouse SF
Chris Eidhof on Functional Programming in Swift
Tony DiPasquale's post on functional JSON parsing in Swift
Aeson library
swiftz
40 min
September 10, 201454: Flow Betwixt
This week, Mark and Gordon discuss so-called "flow controllers" and best practices for getting around town with UIKit.
Flow Controllers on iOS
Anechoic Chamber
30 min
September 03, 201453: Wave Thingies in the Recording Thingie
About 5 minutes after shipping their client application, Mark and Gordon discuss the stresses of shipping, and answer some followup emails about the intermittent test failures they were seeing, and the high level Application View Controller architecture they have been using.
Fish Playing Street Fighter
40 min
August 27, 201452: Nobody Wins Flip Cup
On the final day of thoughtbot's Summer Summit 2014, Mark and Gordon sit down in person to discuss an approach to surfacing network errors to the user and efforts to reduce duplication in doing so.
Example code showing the before/after states for the API client
27 min
August 20, 201451: Waiting For the Beer Endorsements
Mark and Gordon discuss ZeroPush as a push notification service, MVVM, and protocols as they work on recovering from the night before.
ZeroPush
37 min
August 13, 201450: The One Where They Do The 50th Show
Wow, 50 shows. Can you believe that we still have things to talk about? Nope, we can't either. In this landmark episode, Mark and Gordon do a post-mortem on integrating MVVM into their daily development practices and ruminate on the resulting architectures that emerge at production scale.
Efficient JSON in Swift with Functional Concepts and Generics
Airplane!/Zero Hour! comparison
52 min