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Aaron Patterson joins us from RailsConf for puns, performance improvements in Ruby, and AirDropping cats.

Learn how to use Test-Driven Development to write better software in our newest Upcase trail.

On this episode of The Weekly Iteration, George Brocklehurst, development director from thoughtbot's NYC office, joins us to take a tour of a handful of design patterns through the lens of the Django web framework. Specifically, we'll take a look at Django's use of the Template Method Pattern for composing complex operations, and the Single Responsibility Principle.

Ben rants about bad jokes on twitter, doesn't ship any improved activation features on FormKeep this week, irons out some bugs on FormLinter, and begins an ad campaign. Chris contemplates shifting Upcase's business model, and walks through the impetus driving this decision.

Reda and Kyle talk about how Kyle is tackling a branding project for a fantasy sports app. They then dig into how both are planning for upcoming design sprints, and the methodology behind their different approaches.

After claiming (incorrectly) to have fixed the audio issues in the Austin office (sorry, working on it), Jack lures Gordon into ranting about UIPageViewController. We're almost certain we recorded this episode before, but it's still horrible, so here we are. They then take a quick detour into discussing how their bodies are falling apart as they get older before chatting about Jack's journeys into game development and improvements in watchOS 3.

Inspired by Nickolas Means’ fantastic RailsConf keynote, we discuss the corollaries between Lockheed Martin’s Skunk Works projects and our software development projects.

Skip adding another dependency and leverage GenServer and Erlang Term Storage to build an in-memory key-value store for even faster Phoenix applications.

How we replaced React with server-side rendering without anyone noticing.

How we replaced React with server-side rendering without anyone noticing.

ExMachina allows developers to create and manipulate test data in Elixir.

Deploy a Phoenix project that uses WebSockets to AWS Elastic Beanstalk with Docker.

Product Design Sprints are great for validating ideas and concepts, and developers can both learn and add a lot to them.

After establishing that Gordon lacks an internal monologue, Mark and Gordon discuss obscure CoreAnimation APIs, their favorite sessions from WWDC 2016 and some best practices for crafting code that walks the line between being a mess and needlessly abstract.

Product Design Sprints are great for validating ideas and concepts, and developers can both learn and add a lot to them.

Sandi Metz joins us live from RailsConf to talk about the rules, the trouble with naming things, making the right kinds of errors, and conference speaking. A big thanks to everyone who came out to our live show! A video version of this episode is available on the thoughtbot YouTube Page.

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