Build Phase

This week, Mark and Gordon enumerate the contents of their WWDC14 wish lists and discuss the likelihood of none of them coming to fruition. The entire thoughtbot iOS crew (minus one) will be in San F…

Mark and Gordon sit down after conferencing super hard at NSNorth 2014 to talk about their experiences in Ottawa, the conference itself, and the strange attitude towards technical talks in the Object…

Settling into a testing mindset when writing Objective-C is front of mind for this week's show. Gordon and Mark chat about potential pitfalls for TDD newcomers, using common sense when writing your s…

Push notifications amirite?! This week Mark and Gordon commiserate about implementing support for push notifications and the state of third-party services which claim to help.

• Urban Airship
• Apple's…

Container view controllers and clever DJ names are on the docket for this week's episode. Mark and Gordon discuss patterns for handling modal authentication views and other high level approaches to r…

The minutiae of initialization is the topic of this week's show as Gordon and Mark continue to refuse to get off Objective-C's lawn.

• iOS on Rails Book
• Obcd
• Objective-Clean
• Boundaries by Gary Bernha…

Mark and Gordon have a riveting conversation about using C functions instead of class methods, and then move on to discussing KVO and how it can be used to cleanly wrap up some common interaction pat…

Mark and Gordon discuss some problems that were encountered during the release of Liftoff 1.1 and rail on bloated UIViewControllers for, like, 20 minutes.

• Studio Decorations
• Liftoff 1.1
• MVVM for iO…

Gordon and Mark talk briefly about man pages and neck beards before discussing some of the decisions and reasoning behind the 1.0 release of Liftoff.

• mdoc(7) (man mdoc)
• liftoff(1) (man liftoff)
• lif…

Mark and Gordon discuss the goto fail bug, editing environments, and the magical properties of beards.

• Facebook's KVOController
• Objc.io KeyValueObserver
• AppCode tweet on unreachable code
• Apple's go…

Gordon and Mark discuss static UITableViews, possible solutions for faking 3rd party APIs, and beta distribution.

• Wayne Gretzky (Rdio link)
• GORUCK Challenge
• RoutingHTTPServer
• CocoaHTTPServer
• OHHTTP…

Mark and Gordon discuss language differences between Ruby and Objective-C, custom View Controller transitions, and perform a crucial experiment to find out if you can still download Flappy Bird.

• Hy…

Mark and Gordon discuss Threes, Flappy Bird (before it was cool/removed from the store), and Autolayout.

• Threes
• Flappy Bird (Removed from the app store since recording)
• Russia is watching you showe…

Gordon and Mark talk about a number of issues around CocoaPods: their recent issues with the spec repo, the negativity in the community towards the project, the danger of violating Unix philosophy, a…

Mark and Gordon talk about the hiring process at thoughtbot, using code exercises in the interview process, and how they manage to keep from being the smartest people in the room.

• Justified
• Go
• Dead…

Mark and Gordon chat some more about UIPageViewController, UIImage tinting, a better multitasking model, and Texas' attempts at secession.

• The Oatmeal's Polar Vortex comic
• Radar to add boolean prop…

Mark and Gordon discuss their holiday vacations, striving for a good work/life balance, and resolutions for the new year.

• objc-run
• Playbook
• CocoaHeads Boston
• NSCoder Night Meetup
• NSNorth
• Noodle
• Lea…

This week on Build Phase, Gordon Fontenot and Mark Adams talk about storyboarding, tdd and winter.

• NSByteCountFormatter
• XCTest compatible KIF fork
• Silent Push Notification Payload Issue