Build Phase
Episode Archive
Episode Archive
119 episodes of Build Phase since the first episode, which aired on July 29th, 2013.
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55: Dad Stuff
September 16th, 2014 | 39 mins 34 secs
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.
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54: Flow Betwixt
September 9th, 2014 | 29 mins 20 secs
This week, Mark and Gordon discuss so-called "flow controllers" and best practices for getting around town with UIKit.
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53: Wave Thingies in the Recording Thingie
September 2nd, 2014 | 39 mins 20 secs
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.
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52: Nobody Wins Flip Cup
August 26th, 2014 | 26 mins 15 secs
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.
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51: Waiting For the Beer Endorsements
August 19th, 2014 | 36 mins 5 secs
Mark and Gordon discuss ZeroPush as a push notification service, MVVM, and protocols as they work on recovering from the night before.
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50: The One Where They Do The 50th Show
August 12th, 2014 | 51 mins 5 secs
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.
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49: It's Been a Long Day
August 5th, 2014 | 36 mins 46 secs
Mark and Gordon commiserate over intermittent test failures only happening on their CI server, then switch gears to briefly discuss the recent release to the Swift programming language.
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48: F-ing Mush Mouth
July 29th, 2014 | 49 mins 21 secs
Mark and Gordon talk about some of the parts of Swift that don't feel quite right to them, functional programming, being a Polyglot, and the potentially scary way that Swift's new access control affects testing.
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47: Boom. Chaka Khan.
July 22nd, 2014 | 36 mins 39 secs
In a surprisingly meandering episode, Mark and Gordon discuss music, Fonts,
UIBarButtonItem, fruit in beers, pluralization with localized strings, and Fantasy Football. -
46: A Touch Of Class Cluster
July 15th, 2014 | 32 mins 5 secs
This week, Gordon and Mark discuss class clusters, bindings, the Home Run Derby and the inimitable John Cleese.
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45: My Stupid, Stupid Brain
July 8th, 2014 | 34 mins 19 secs
This week Apple did Mark and Gordon a solid by dropping a new beta full of fancy Swift goodies mere moments before they started recording. Whew. Dodged a bullet on that one.
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44: Emergency Brisket
July 1st, 2014 | 34 mins 23 secs
This week, Mark and Gordon discuss best practices when using UIScrollView with auto layout, the advantages of MVVM and exchange tales of weekend travel.
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43: Golden Fontenot and The Mark Adams Effect
June 24th, 2014 | 31 mins 41 secs
Mark and Gordon discuss code signing woes, the aerodynamics of hair removal, and one of Gordon's alter egos.
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42: Best Language for the Gob
June 17th, 2014 | 36 mins 22 secs
Mark and Gordon spend probably too much time talking about Arrested Development, then seamlessly transition into discussing some oddities that have come up in their usage of Swift so far.
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41: WWDC 2014
June 10th, 2014 | 42 mins 26 secs
Mark and Gordon are joined by fellow thoughtbot iOS team members Tony DiPasquale and Keith Smiley in a roundtable discussion wrapping up the announcements from WWDC 2014.
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40: Over the Hill
June 3rd, 2014 | 40 mins 23 secs
Gather 'round and hear tell of Mark and Gordon's WWDC expectations that were surprisingly mostly correct given this week's announcements.