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Q&A: How to start a career in software engineering after prison Feb 05, 2019

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Alex & Andrew respond to a listener question about starting a career in software engineering. How to choose between a coding bootcamp and university? What should one learn to be a marketable software engineer? What's the best way to learn? What's the market like for mobile software engineers? And more!

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What's new in 2019 plus Alex's new opinion on singletons Jan 15, 2019

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Alex has a change of mind on singletons after previously declaring them always "evil". Also, what's new in 2019 and what we have planned.

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Andrews "Toast View Model" Struggle Nov 12, 2018

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Andrew talks about his recent design struggle with trying to work both within and maintaining a Model-View-Presenter architecture in the context of pre-existing code.

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Q&A: How to design an app for scalability? Oct 15, 2018

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Alex answers a listener question. How does one design an app for scalability?Alex answers a question from a listener that just completed an iOS Engineer interview: How does one design an app for scalability?

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The Problems with View Controllers Oct 01, 2018

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Andrew describes & discusses the various problems with view controllers.

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Evolving Mobile Architecture at Reddit Sep 14, 2018

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Andrew talks about the recent architectural refactoring work he did at Reddit. He explains how the iOS team moved from an MVC architecture to a Model View Presenter (MVP) architecture. He also talks about Texture -- an async layout framework for fast scrolling feeds.

This episode was originally recorded March 2018.

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Q&A episode: React Native & the cultish force of Javascript Sep 02, 2018

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We answer a listeners questions. What is the threat/benefit of React Native? What's happening to the job market because of React Native? How do you stay immune to the cultish force of the Javascript religion? What effect will WebAssembly have on web development?

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Data Structures & Algorithms in Swift with Kelvin Lau & Vincent Ngo Aug 22, 2018

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Ray Wenderlich authors Kelvin Lau & Vincent Ngo come on the show to discuss their book "Data Structures and Algorithms in Swift".

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John Sundell on Unit Testing Aug 01, 2018

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We talk with acclaimed iOS & Swift blogger John Sundell about unit testing is. We start out with just unit testing is and then move into details: when & how to do unit testing, tdd, and more!

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Classic Computer Science Problems in Swift with David Kopec Jul 20, 2018

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We speak with David Kopec, professor & iOS developer consultant, about his book "Classic Computer Science Problems in Swift". What can you learn from solving classic CS problems such as search, constraint-satisfaction, graph problems and more? David gives a brief explanation of some of the interesting problems in the book such as K-Means clustering and Genetic algorithms.

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