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 Francisco for WWDC week so be sure to get in touch at buildphase@thoughtbot.com or @buildphase on App.net or Twitter if you'd like to meet up! Getting Started With iOS Development Workshop Build Phase on Twitter Email Us!

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 Objective-C community. NSNorth

Mark and Gordon discuss CoreData; the problems with an upside down persistence stack, and the circular process of trying to improve their implementations.

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 specs and self-proclaimed Emperors of these United States. Emperor Norton Bummer and Lazarus iOS TDD blog post Ruby TDD blog post Lockbox Specta Expecta OCMock OHHTTPStubs DHH's Blog Post

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 docs on Push Notifications

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 root view controller presentation. Darth Brooks Chris Gaines Rodeo by Garth Brooks Lindsay Lowend Debug episode with Loren Brichter

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 Bernhardt

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 patterns. Ed Begley Jr. objc.io on KVO and KVC Apple docs on KVO (See the note about UIKit) Apple docs on KVO Implementation Details

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 iOS Sandi Metz' rules for (Ruby) developers Decorator pattern AutoCoding

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) liftoffrc(5) (man liftoffrc) Liftoff 1.0 announcement Liftoff on GitHub liftoffrc thoughtbot-formulae Xcodeproj Crafter

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 goto fail; bug AppCode RapGenius - Objective-C isn't what you think it is (if you think like a Rubyist)

Gordon and Mark discuss static UITableViews, possible solutions for faking 3rd party APIs, and beta distribution. Wayne Gretzky (Rdio link) GORUCK Challenge RoutingHTTPServer CocoaHTTPServer OHHTTPStubs Apple purchasing Burstly Hockey

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. Hypercritical Episode 15 - The Bridges of Siracusa County Custom UIViewController Transitions by Ash Furrow

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 shower UIView+Autolayout

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, and possible futures for the project if they were to get sherlocked by Apple. NOFX - The Decline Pennywise - Full Circle (on Rdio) CocoaPods - Repairing our broken specs repository Xcodeproj issue #65 - Create project via command line Objective-C libraries and Unix philosophy NSString+TBEncryption CMDQueryStringSerialization

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 Deadwood Aaron Vegh FizzBuzz thoughtbot’s Playbook Jack Nutting’s author page on Amazon Impostor Syndrome

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 property to disable resizing of UIPageViewController subviews Radar to add -[UIPageViewControllerDelegate pageViewController:didTransitionToViewControllers:] Radar for setting renderMode on UIImage from Xcode Customizing Your App's Appearance for iOS 7 WWDC Session (UIImageRenderingMode content begins at 32:02) iOS Goodies Dynamic iOS Multitasking clang-format Xcode plugin Code Pilot goes open source FuzzyAutocomplete Xcode plugin

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 Learn you a haskell Ryan Nystrom's (not Nyquist) iOS 7 Best Practices blog post Functional Reactive Programming by Ash Furrow Model/View/View-Model Gary Bernhardt's Boundaries talk Gary Bernhardt on Giant Robots

This week on Build Phase, Gordon Fontenot and Mark Adams chat about christmas, future projects and programming in 2013.

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