Project Update

By Joe Simpson, Dave Ramsey

Joe and Dave discuss the progress of their respective projects, delving into the challenges, successes, and failures of being commercial software developers, periodic game developers, and general tech... more

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Project Update episodes:

February 17, 202027: A Slightly Weird Environment
This week Joe removed Random Arrow from the App Store and talks about what he learned from the experience. Dave hired a front end developer for FM Comparison and streamlined the diff linking process.
Massively Unqualified Development
VR Hermits
Big O Notation Face: O(n2)
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February 03, 202026: Commit the Bag
This week Joe reviews a couple of small updates and talks about data handling for the visual timeline feature. Dave pulls SQLite out of the project and returns simpler approaches for the runtime data structures. They both try to avoid premature optimizations.
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1h 3min
January 20, 202025: Did You File a Bug Against It?
This week Dave went on a stay-at-home roadshow, visiting a number of user groups to demo his products and some development techniques. Joe shipped another small update to Retrospective Timelines and learn some of the more complex aspects of Core Data.
Retrospective Timelines 1.0.3
Data Entry with SwiftUI and UIKit
Timeline Padding Example
Launched Podcast
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58min
January 06, 202024: SwiftUI Sandwich
Joe and Dave are back from their holiday hiatus. Joe details several small releases for Retrospective Timelines. Dave reviews several weeks worth of work on the calculation parser and overall application architecture.
Retrospective Timelines 1.0.1
Retrospective Timelines 1.0.2
Time tracking side project
Retrospective Timelines: Without a splash
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1h
December 09, 201923: The Octothorpe
Dave continues to find additional complexity in FileMaker calculation parsing. Joe works on an update for Retrospective Timelines.
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43min
December 02, 201922: This Will Have to Do
This week Joe finally shipped version 1.0 of Retrospective Timelines. Dave traveled back in time to work with Apple Script Studio and made yet more progress on the parser.
Retrospective Timelines Website
Retrospective Timelines on the App Store
Geist Interactive Sale
The International Obfuscated C Code Contest
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1h 1min
November 18, 201921: Rhetorical Topics
This week Dave finds a reason to run unit tests before every commit and Joe finds several unfixable bugs.
TedXColumbus
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1h 2min
November 11, 201920: The man-spreading of app navigation
This week Joe makes a lot of progress on the UI for Retrospective Timelines. Dave gets his laptop fixed and wraps up the hardest part of the calculation parser.
SwiftUI Modal Badness
Events screenshots referenced during discussion
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1h 9min
November 04, 201919: Weird descending price
This week Dave reviews Rider and makes some progress on Let and While statement parsing. Joe details some changes on the User Interface for Retrospective Timelines.
Rider IDE
Retrospective UI Blog Post
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48min
October 28, 201918: Technical Mortgage
This week Joe avoids taking on some technical debt and makes a lot of progress on Retrospective Timelines. Dave continues to uncover complexity in FileMaker calculation parsing.
SwiftUI Navigation on iPad
Twitter thread about Navigation Buttons
Developers Swearing
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56min

FAQs about Project Update:

How many episodes does Project Update have?

The podcast currently has 57 episodes available.