Build Phase
Build Phase is a weekly technical podcast discussing iOS development and design.
- Update frequency
- every 9 days
- Average duration
- 38 minutes
- Episodes
- 119
- Years Active
- 2013 - 2017
59: 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.
58: 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…
57: 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.
56: Brackety Splat
Mark and Gordon continue to talk about functional concepts in Swift, this time looking at real world applications in iOS development.
55: 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…
54: Flow Betwixt
This week, Mark and Gordon discuss so-called "flow controllers" and best practices for getting around town with UIKit.
53: 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 t…
52: 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.
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51: 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.
50: 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 developm…
49: It's Been a Long Day
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.
48: F-ing Mush Mouth
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 affe…
47: Boom. Chaka Khan.
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
This week, Gordon and Mark discuss class clusters, bindings, the Home Run Derby and the inimitable John Cleese.
45: My Stupid, Stupid Brain
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.
44: Emergency Brisket
This week, Mark and Gordon discuss best practices when using UIScrollView with auto layout, the advantages of MVVM and exchange tales of weekend travel.
43: Golden Fontenot and The Mark Adams Effect
Mark and Gordon discuss code signing woes, the aerodynamics of hair removal, and one of Gordon's alter egos.
42: Best Language for the Gob
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.
41: WWDC 2014
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.
40: Over the Hill
Gather 'round and hear tell of Mark and Gordon's WWDC expectations that were surprisingly mostly correct given this week's announcements.