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Design, development and business, these guys do it all. Ben and Jelly are two iOS developers who work on everything from games to client projects, and get together every fortnight to talk ab...

It’s the final episode of Mobile Couch, so Jake MacMullin returns to the couch, and they discuss how they got started as developers, as well...

Ben takes Jelly on a journey through his favourite points from the book Pragmatic Programming: From Journeyman to Master, which details poin...

Jelly recounts his experience with interviewing for a developer position within a big tech company. He and Ben reveal a little insight into...

Ben and Jelly run through a quick and dirty primary of Git, one of the most popular version control systems around today. Starting from the...

Once again, the Apple developer community has been host to scandal! Not a pair to leave this opportunity behind, Ben and Jelly discuss how d...

With Ben in London, Casey Liss rejoins Jelly on the couch to talk about leaving .Net behind for a career in the Apple ecosystem, his experie...

How do you lay out your views? Ben and Jelly look over the different methods available on both iOS and Android, and compare their experience...

User notifications have had a big makeover in iOS 10, so Ben and Jelly walk through how notifications work on iOS. Along the way, they highl...

If you’re lucky, you’ll never need to work on an app that has to manage files, but just in case you ever do, Jelly’s got you covered with a...

Dependency injection is a simple programming technique with a bit of a scary name, but it turns out that it’s excellent for highlighting the...

Jelly’s had a bit of a computer disaster (which he totally got from Ben), so they talk a little bit about mitigating disasters as both users...

Since the announcement in the WWDC keynote, Ben has been working on a couple of Messages apps, so he and Jelly go through all the ins and ou...

With WWDC done and dusted for another year, Ben and Jelly discuss their experiences queueing for the keynote, attending side conferences, an...

In the lead up to WWDC, Ben and Jelly take an early look at some of the changes coming to the Swift language this year with version 3, which...

Ben and Jelly turn their minds to this year’s WWDC, and spend some time talking about what they expect to come out of this year’s conference...

What is good code, and how does one achieve it? Ben and Jelly spend some time working through a small project while considering the flaws, e...

Both Ben and Jelly have worked from home for many years, so they explore the benefits and disadvantages of remote working. Together, they di...

Jelly walks Ben through the ins and outs of implementing In-App Purchases in your “freemium” or “paymium” apps. IAPs are deceptively annoyin...

Many developers work with things like views and view controllers, but might not have any idea about how these things all fit together. Ben i...

In any given project, you’ll find that there are a number of different “hats” that you have to wear, such as making the hard decisions, bein...

Giovanni Lodi (@mokagio) joins the couch to teach Ben and Jelly about the automation of tasks, and especially about the automation of the bu...

Jelly’s been using JetBrain’s AppCode to get some work done in the last few weeks, and he and Ben go over the overall experience. Together,...

This past week, Ben attended the Apple TV Tech Talks in Sydney. Meanwhile, Jelly didn’t get the opportunity, so Ben covers of a lot of the m...

Ben’s been working on a side-project over his break, and wants to actually flesh it out into something complete and polished. There are a fe...

Russell Ivanovic jumps on the couch to chat about what makes code good or bad, and how the perception of code changes over the years. They l...

Ben and Jelly take a look back at the things they’ve learned over the past year with their approach to work as well as with the technical si...

Christmas came early this year as Apple followed through on their promise to open-source the Swift language. Ben and Jelly take a look at al...

After talking about dealing with — supporting — clients, Jelly thinks it’s worth touching on supporting the users of your app. He and Ben ta...

If you deal with clients, you’ll discover that there’s a lot of ins and outs to working with them on a project. Ben and Jelly talk about how...

In response to a topic suggestion, Jelly draws on his recent experiences with GIFwrapped to discuss ways to ensure an app’s architecture is...

A new version of iOS means new features, and this year brings a handful of big ones, slide over, split view, picture in picture and 3D Touch...

For the past few weeks, Jelly has been refactoring the core components of his app, so he feels like he needs to talk it out with Ben. The tw...

Ben and Jelly cover some tips and tricks they use to get through their work day, from basics like keyboard shortcuts to bash scripts for aut...

After dealing with some follow-up about privacy policies, as well as mentioning a couple more methods for handling blocks within blocks, Ben...

Jelly has been implementing some more analytics in GIFwrapped over the last few weeks, so he and Ben take a look at the various aspects of t...

Jelly and Ben start the show by covering some quick follow-up about CocoaPods and Carthage, which blurs the lines between their differences....

After touching on some Core Data follow-up, Jake proposes that the couch talk about Frameworks. Apple’s Cocoa includes a lot of things, and...

Following-up from the last episode, Jelly tries to recover from his failed attempts to explain why he believes that opening up Radar isn’t t...

In the wake of WWDC, the couch discuss their favourite sessions and lab experiences, and some of the answers to the questions they had follo...

The WWDC 2015 keynote has come and gone, but Eddy Cue’s dance moves will forever haunt us. Jake and Ben call in from San Francisco to talk a...

With Ben off attending Google I/O, Jake and Jelly talk art exhibitions, storyboards, Jelly’s struggle with sync, and prepping for WWDC. Jake...

With the videos from the final NSConference out to watch for free, the couch discuss some favourites, as well as conferences in general. Plu...

Jake has his watch in hand, so after going back over some unit testing follow-up, and with a single weekend’s experience, the couch looks at...

Leading with follow-up, Jake touches on his experiences with developing a WatchKit after having talked to David, how he’s fetching the conte...

Joining the couch this fortnight is Underscore, a.k.a. David Smith, host of Developing Perspective and independent developer extraordinaire....

While Ben is at NSConference, Jake and Jelly compensate by talking about the new Macbook, Jake’s recent experience with converting a Swift 1...

Jelly’s had some wine, and a long day to boot, so after a failed first attempt at recording the episode, the couch talks developing for Andr...

Tonight! Ben uses a Word template, Jelly iterates a build number, and Jake watches half of a video. Hot off the heels of the release of his...

Jelly has wanted to talk about Testflight for a while, and he finally gets his chance, comparing Apple’s beta distribution tool with the pre...

Russell Ivanovic (@rustyshelf) joins the couch to discuss back-end services for mobile apps, the differences between software-as-a-service a...