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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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Mark and Gordon discuss ZeroPush as a push notification service, MVVM, and protocols as they work on recovering from the night before. ZeroPush

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

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. Xcode Release Notes (Includes notes on Swift release

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. Examples of JSON Parsing in Swift and Function Currying in Haskell Learn You A Haskell For Great Good swiftz

In a surprisingly meandering episode, Mark and Gordon discuss music, Fonts, UIBarButtonItem, fruit in beers, pluralization with localized strings, and Fantasy Football. Pitch TTTLocalizedPluralString InflectorKit objc.io article on string localization ESPN 30 for 30: Silly Little Game

This week, Gordon and Mark discuss class clusters, bindings, the Home Run Derby and the inimitable John Cleese. Fawlty Towers Form Bindings sample code on GitHub Giant Robots Smashing Into Other Giant Robots Build Phase on iTunes

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. Xcode release notes including Swift changes (Required Apple Developer Account) Quick (BDD framework for Swift)

This week, Mark and Gordon discuss best practices when using UIScrollView with auto layout, the advantages of MVVM and exchange tales of weekend travel. Technical Note TN2154: UIScrollView and Autolayout Capacitor - Wikipedia

Mark and Gordon discuss code signing woes, the aerodynamics of hair removal, and one of Gordon's alter egos. Gordon's provisioning profile woes Apple Dev Forums provisioning profile bug results Dave DeLong's tweet about provisioning profile weirdness

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. Chris Lattner comments on open sourcing Swift Swift Language Guide Using Swift with Cocoa and Objective-C

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. Tony DiPasquale on Twitter Keith Smiley on Twitter Swift

Gather 'round and hear tell of Mark and Gordon's WWDC expectations that were surprisingly mostly correct given this week's announcements. EasyMapping OHHTTPStubs