Build and Analyze
By 5by5
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Podcast Description
A weekly news and discussion show about the world of iPhone, iPad, iOS, and mobile web development. Hosted by Marco Arment & Dan Benjamin.
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Build and Analyze 78: The Opposite of Instapaper | Dan and Marco discuss Flattr, API versioning, web frameworks, and Marco's formerly secret App Store experiment: a brand new app that's nothing like Instapaper. | 5/21/12 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Build and Analyze 77: I Had A Baby, You Launched An App | Dan and Marco discuss the new 5by5 Radio app, why Apple may not want to add paid upgrades to the App Store, the infinite market for podcast clients and to-do apps, Instacast's in-app-purchase backlash, how and why to remove features from an app, the new 15" MacBook Pro rumors, Thunderbolt's likely overshadowing by USB 3, and near-future concerns for a Retina laptop. | 5/14/12 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Build and Analyze 76: Trust Me, I Know C | Instacast 2.0's interesting pricing, RubyMotion, seemingly impossible requirements in job postings, undercutting competitors on price, and why 5by5 probably shouldn't do a parenting show. | 5/7/12 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Build and Analyze 75: My Twitterrific Moment | Marco's new baby, working from home with kids, tightening car seats, speaking at conferences, baby monitors, the costs of hiring someone, the Instapaper website job description, Read It Later and Pocket, paying attention to competitors, the future direction of Instapaper, and what Apple should do about WWDC tickets. | 4/30/12 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Build and Analyze 74: Ship or Get Off The Pot | With Marco on paternity leave this week, Dan is joined by Daniel Jalkut of Red Sweater Software. They discuss the origins of Daniel's flagship product, MarsEdit, the long hours often required of independent developers, and more. | 4/27/12 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Build and Analyze 73: One Cell Taller | Readability's failed payment system, why Instagram was worth so much to Facebook, advertisers outbidding customers, the rumored taller-screen iPhone and its effects on apps, WWDC, and Dan's bold feature decisions in the upcoming 5by5 Radio app. | 4/16/12 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Build and Analyze 72: An Uncomfortable Night for Everybody | Upgrades in the App Store (or the lack thereof), gesture discoverability, iPad 3 renderInContext slowdowns, the inelegant transition periods of the Pentium Pro and A5X, and burning hamburgers. | 4/9/12 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Build and Analyze 71: The Lottery Mindset | Draw Something, myths of overnight successes, the lottery mindset contributing to idea people and patent policy, how good colleges and computer science degrees affect your future career, a review of three leading iOS podcast apps, and follow-up on the BMW M5 (F10). | 4/2/12 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Build and Analyze 70: 116 Degree Burns | Dan and Marco discuss the "www" prefix, Eye-Fi with Aperture, using Kickstarter to fund large software projects, iPad Warmgate, being featured in the App Store, customer reactions to requiring iOS 5, instant coffee, and theoretical 3G-equipped MacBooks. | 3/26/12 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Build and Analyze 69: Holiday Punishment Font | Dan and Marco discuss Retina-screen design considerations, Retina graphics on the web, the benefits of requiring iOS 5, and the ethics of app analytics. | 3/19/12 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Build and Analyze 68: The Returning Dessert Problem | More on the effects of competition, apps as entertainment risks and the dynamics of low app pricing, why forced app trials would be bad, health insurance for single-person businesses, and why Marco hates iPhoto, Aperture, and Lightroom. | 3/12/12 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Build and Analyze 67: Competing With Free | Dan and Marco discuss Instapaper's new competitor, Readability, the effects of competing with a free product, trying to be original while implementing similar features, and the difficulties of choosing fonts for reading body text on screens. | 3/5/12 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Build and Analyze 66: Car Haters and Idea Guys | Dan and Marco discuss fun cars and car economics, idea guys, the value of ideas, the value of products launched by "famous" people, and why responding to email is hopelessly impossible. | 2/27/12 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Build and Analyze 65: An Accountant Knows Where To Put It | Dan and Marco discuss the value of accountants, taxing, 1099s, Japanese withholding on App Store sales, Internet Explorer's recent improvements and browser testing, and why this show often isn't about programming and APIs. | 2/20/12 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Build and Analyze 64: Mountain Kitten | Dan and Marco discuss the Ivy Bridge delay, k56flex, Windows branding, and, oh yeah, the announcement and preview of OS X Mountain Lion. | 2/16/12 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Build and Analyze 63: Underwear Drawer | Dan and Marco discuss apps versus the web, iOS address-book access and data privacy, and Honeywell suing Nest for patent infringement. | 2/10/12 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Build and Analyze 62: Frustrated by the Invisible Person | Dan and Marco successfully avoid development topics for an entire show, instead discussing USB outlets and the Nest thermostat. | 2/2/12 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Build and Analyze 61: Up and Down All Night Long | Dan and Marco discuss server monitoring, iCloud replacing web apps, NSZombie, and the complex world of salaries. | 1/26/12 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Build and Analyze 60: Mostly Empty Notebooks | Dan and Marco discuss mute switches, the cost of settings, bad broadband, deciding which features to implement, design and prototyping processes, and why the Nintendo 64 and first Xbox deserve a lot of credit. | 1/16/12 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Build and Analyze 59: Premium Products | Dan and Marco discuss CES, Second Crack, localization, code comments, serving custom data to UIWebView requests, discounts and sales devaluing your app, premium products, and blog comments. | 1/10/12 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Build and Analyze 58: The Cake is Blue [Fixed Audio] | Dan and Marco discuss app refunds, managing work and family time at home, workaholism culture in startups, the costs of doing business, and how Instapaper stores images offline. | 1/3/12 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Build and Analyze 57: Next to the Bathroom | Dan and Marco discuss listening to music while coding and making the most of open office layouts. | 12/27/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Build and Analyze 56: The Worst Kind of Frustration | Dan and Marco discuss TextMate 2, designing (or having someone else design) icons for your apps, typing on Kindles, and why Marco uses queues in Instapaper. | 12/19/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Build and Analyze 55: Scaling Enabled | Dan and Marco discuss the TextMate 2 alpha (it's real!), demand for iOS games, cloud hosting and the scaling challenges it won't solve, and the Top Brewer coffee faucet. | 12/13/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Build and Analyze 54: Snob Blend | Dan and Marco discuss inverted Aeropresses, what Marco would do if he were in charge of Starbucks, app marketing responses and being featured in the App Store, avoiding creepy mobile analytics, and static blogging engines. | 12/5/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Build and Analyze 53: Blows Enough For Me | Dan and Marco discuss Andy Ihnatko's defense of the Kindle Fire, cheap versus bad, consumer priorities, what happens when your product gets canned before it ships, preparing for a Retina iPad, how to market your app, and every indie developer being a millionaire. | 11/30/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Build and Analyze 52: Me and My Bias | Dan and Marco discuss the Kindle Fire, Apple's profit off mobile apps, the recall of the 1st generation iPod Nano, Ice Cream Sandwich, career stages of a programmer and Plants vs Zombies. | 11/21/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Build and Analyze 51: Plattsburgh | Dan and Marco discuss the end of mobile Flash, the potential end of desktop Flash and Silverlight, reservations about the Kindle Fire's sales potential, career advice to programmers, and the difficult practicalities and economics of RSS sync platforms. | 11/14/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Build and Analyze 50: Container of Worms | Dan and Marco discuss the difficult design decisions in Instapaper 4, managing customer expectations and habits when changing features, the iOS 5.0.1 fix and how to argue effectively with Apple, the Steve Jobs biography, and Keurig coffee minivans. | 11/7/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Build and Analyze 49: I Just Boil It | Dan and Marco discuss the developer implications of apps on TVs, more Apple TV analysis, shovelware, Codify for iPad, Dan's new AeroPress, and whether Marco's upcoming baby will require a minivan. | 10/31/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Build and Analyze 48: Zero Inputs | Dan and Marco discuss the MacBook Pro update, what an Apple television might be like, VoiceOver considerations and testing for your apps, power switches on computers, and encouraging words from Hacker News. | 10/24/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Build and Analyze 47: Some Kind of Meat | Dan and Marco discuss the stress of Instapaper 4.0's release, the Cingleton conference in Montreal, Google Dart, the iPhone 4S, and iOS 5's "Cleaning..." behavior. | 10/17/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Build and Analyze 46: The Edge Is Not Purple | Dan and Marco discuss Steve Jobs and Apple's future, the iPhone 4S and hardware tradeoffs, how awesome smartphone cameras have transformed how we use and buy cameras, the possibility of a Siri API, and the difficulty in finding good beta testers. | 10/10/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Build and Analyze 45: Bevel in the Bezel | Dan and Marco discuss developing for the old and new Kindles, HTC's security vulnerability and Android's problems deploying updates, iOS 5's behavior with apps' Documents and Caches directories, the sound of judgment, and how vagaries in App Review rules ultimately hurt customers. | 10/3/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Build and Analyze 44: Customers As Body Parts | Dan and Marco discuss the TextMate 2 announcement, second-system syndrome and architecture astronauts, knowing the business you're really in, hot laptops, and the iOS 5 GM rumors. | 9/26/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Build and Analyze 43: Mythical Metro | Dan and Marco discuss the Netflix/Qwickster split and then devote the rest of the episode to Windows 8 and Metro: how the desktop, iOS, Android, and Metro interfaces scale to accommodate more features over time, the shortcomings of gesture-based touch interfaces, Metro's adoption challenges among customers and developers, and Microsoft's possible return to their effective strategies from the 1990s. | 9/19/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Build and Analyze 42: Podcast@2x.png | Dan and Marco discuss management and backups of large MySQL databases, tradeoffs with Amazon S3 and EC2, Xcode's Distributed Builds, the latest iPhone rumors, sports teams, bumper stickers, theme music, and why Dave Matthews Band isn't a jam band. | 9/12/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Build and Analyze 41: A Box Full of Dreams and Emptiness | Dan and Marco discuss TechCrunch (sorry), the Kindle Tablet's prospects for developers and ramifications of forking Android, Second Crack and Dropbox, clipboard history apps, Marco's new (almost-) single-computer setup, Time Machine options, and shipping a Mac Pro with emotional value. | 9/6/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Build and Analyze 40: Not Quite a Siracusian Degree | Dan and Marco discuss Steve Jobs' resignation as CEO, HP's additional manufacturing run of TouchPads, the theoretical Amazon tablet, returning to the single-computer world when so many others are leaving it, and why it made so much sense to buy the current MacBook Pro mid-cycle. | 8/30/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Build and Analyze 39: TouchPad vs. TextMate vs. BBEdit | Ryan and Marco discuss HP's discontinuation of webOS and PC hardware, why a $99 TouchPad isn't more compelling, the potential in Windows Phone 7, installing antivirus on your future Windows 8 tablet, the difficulties in changing your text editor of choice, and the results of Marco's experiment switching from TextMate to BBEdit for a week. | 8/22/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Build and Analyze 38: Decaf Compatibility Stick | Ryan Irelan takes over while Dan's on paternity leave, and he and Marco discuss what Google's purchase of Motorola Mobility means for other Android device manufacturers, how this changes the future of Android, whether "Android under the hood" devices should count as Android market share, international taxation on App Store earnings, USB hubs for iPads, and decaf coffee. | 8/16/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Build and Analyze 37: Happy in Three Places | Dan and Marco discuss Google's patent issues and their use of "open", the HP TouchPad's price drop, why good platforms can still fail, Coffee Joulies, travel mugs, and Second Crack. | 8/11/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Build and Analyze 36: Jobs (Not The Steve Kind) | Dan and Marco revisit patents and then discuss various types of jobs in the tech industry: how certain languages qualify you more for certain jobs, the myth of job security, the partial myth of being your own boss, big companies versus small, full-time work versus contracting, selling standalone products versus hourly work, what you truly cost your employer, and the risks and hidden costs of going out on your own. | 8/4/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Build and Analyze 35: Fair and Balanced | Dan and Marco discuss version numbers as marketing, Twitter's sponsored tweets, the incredibly exciting world of home networking speeds, the baggage of browser chrome in web apps, needing to be more "fair" toward Google, and meaningless corporate entities set up specifically to receive public anger and bad press at no cost to their real backers. | 7/29/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Build and Analyze 34: My Best Dan Benjamin Impression | Dan and Marco discuss Lion's release, the possibly painful transition period of apps supporting Lion's new features, Lion's sandboxing and security, Marco's AeroPress procedure, and yesterday's updates to the MacBook, Cinema Display, and Mac Mini. | 7/21/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Build and Analyze 33: Discount Viagra Mattresses | Dan and Marco discuss user expectations with Lion, TextMate's apparent abandonment, knowing when to use Google+ and hitting the notification wall, app pricing, the mechanics of advertising and why iAd seems to be failing, Dan's hot closet, Mac Pro and MacBook Air rumors, and followup on the tradeoffs in the Apple laptop lineup. | 7/13/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Build and Analyze 32: Building a Wall | Dan and Marco discuss Amazon's Appstore problems, Google+'s member limits and compiled HTML, when and why you should stray from UIKit, and a special bonus episode extension on the practicalities of the MacBook Airs and other Macs. | 7/5/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Build and Analyze 31: Google Percent 2B | Dan and Marco discuss Final Cut Pro X, the pro-software market and transition periods, the Mac Pro's future, the HP TouchPad, tablet responsiveness and fun, the 80-20 fallacy applied to app markets, and Google+. | 6/30/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Build and Analyze 30: FBI RAID Is Not A Backup | Dan and Marco discuss the FBI's raid at DigitalOne, database backups, lossless audio compression, and the content ecosystems that tablets and e-readers depend on. | 6/22/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Build and Analyze 29: The Way Siracusa Buys A Toaster | Dan and Marco revisit app-compatibility decisions and Twitter's API PR, then discuss rising bars sinking all boats (or something like that), iCloud's usefulness to web services, keeping your competitors close, and the incentives of low app pricing. | 6/16/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Build and Analyze 28: Circling Birds | Marco Arment joins Dan Benjamin for a special episode, live from WWDC, to discuss Mac OS X Lion, iOS 5, iCloud, iMessage, Reading List, Instapaper, and more. | 6/7/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Build and Analyze 27: Android Internet Explorer | Dan and Marco share WWDC tips and discuss Xcode 4, an App-Store-only default, Google's API shutdowns, Twitter photo-hosting, and whether iOS development consultants need to expand to Android. | 5/31/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Build and Analyze 26: The Mouth of Brooklyn | Dan and Marco follow up on Lodsys and software patents, then discuss Twitter's OAuth change, Twitter buying TweetDeck, and why you can't buy a good midrange appliance. | 5/25/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Build and Analyze 25: Feed the Patent Troll | Dan and Marco discuss why PHP really is bad, Safari's Reading List competing with Instapaper, the Lodsys patent, the rules of the Apple ecosystem, and getting decent coffee at work. | 5/16/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Build and Analyze 24: PHP's Not A "Bad Language" | Dan and Marco discuss "good" and "bad" programming languages (related to Hypercritical's episode #15), code-writing styles, intellectual-property infringement, and third-party RAM in Macs. | 5/9/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Build and Analyze 23: Shorter Than 90 Minutes | Dan and Marco discuss work-life balance and time management for self-employed people, APIs and sync-services for apps, long-term economics of one-time purchases with ongoing costs, and choosing a new Mac for production work. | 5/2/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Build and Analyze 22: Too Many App Stores | Dan and Marco discuss Interface Builder vs. coding views manually, CORS and extreme iframe geekery, the impact of Apple or strong competition entering your market, the oversupply of App Stores, and whether competing tablets are too late to have a chance in the market. | 4/25/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Build and Analyze 21: Desks and Balls | Dan and Marco discuss the rumors of Apple making a TV, the role of recruiters in job searches, standing desks, and ergonomics. | 4/18/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Build and Analyze 20: Dev and Taxes | Dan and Marco talk about version control, keeping track of business finances, knowing when to hire help, and more. | 4/11/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Build and Analyze 19: Too Old to Drive a WRX | Dan and Marco discuss Kona coffee, the physics of Joulies, venture-capital-based startups versus traditional businesses, Android's marketshare, and our accidental static-file blogging competition. | 4/4/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Build and Analyze 18: Second Crack | Dan and Marco sell the audience on WWDC attendance, then discuss blogging systems, static vs. dynamic page rendering, and ideas for how a new static-page system might be designed. | 3/28/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Build and Analyze 17: How To Boil Water | Marco Arment and Dan Benjamin discuss the pitfalls of PDF conversion, AT&T's purchase of T-Mobile US, the #dickbar, skeumorphic interface metaphors, and grinding coffee in static-prone dry air. | 3/21/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Build and Analyze 16: Considerations | Marco Arment and Dan Benjamin discuss the Twitter Quick Bar fiasco, decision-making for the Instapaper 3.0 release, and differentiation from competitors. | 3/16/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Build and Analyze 15: Technical Debt | Marco and Dan talk about the many choices relating to the forthcoming iPad 2, the concept of technical debt, and software piracy. | 3/9/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Build and Analyze 14: The Tablet Grid | Marco and Dan talk about the newly announced iPad 2, Apple's competition and direction in the tablet space, multi-threading, and more. | 3/2/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Build and Analyze 13: Thunderbolt! | Fresh from Webstock in New Zealand, Marco Arment returns to talk with Dan Benjamin about the recent In App Purchasing situation, the iPad 2, Light Peak (aka Thunderbolt) ports on the upcoming MacBooks, and more. | 2/23/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Build and Analyze 12: Performance is a Feature | Dan and Marco revisit The Daily and discuss performance and responsiveness as a feature, the competing tablet landscape, the sales of the Verizon iPhone, and the worst instant-coffee product ever devised. | 2/9/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Build and Analyze 11: The Mustache Guy | Dan and Marco discuss coffee, the weather, politics, religion, money, the launch of The Daily, and needing multiple devices for old-OS testing. | 2/2/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Build and Analyze 10: A Dark Time for Coffee | Marco Arment and Dan Benjamin discuss app store submission tips, realistic expectations for launch, a dark time in history for coffee, piracy, and more. | 1/27/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Build and Analyze 9: Brew and Analyze | Dan and Marco discuss programming languages and online resources for iOS developers, as well as coffee brewing techniques. | 1/20/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Build and Analyze 8: Code Liability | Marco Arment and Dan Benjamin overview the Verizon iPhone, and discuss using code frameworks, the concept of Not Invented Here, and more. | 1/12/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Build and Analyze 7: A New Marketplace | Marco Arment and Dan Benjamin discuss the latest in the world of mobile and web development. | 1/6/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Build and Analyze 6: Cycles of Motivation | Dan and Marco discuss adopting the userbase's de facto use-cases in your products, the downsides of open-floor-plan offices, and the cycles of motivation and productivity that many creative professionals face throughout the day. | 12/23/10 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Build and Analyze 5: Pain Points | Marco Arment and Dan Benjamin discuss app dev pain points, discuss sabotaging yourself, ads in apps, free and paid app versions, updates that make your app worse, outsourcing support, mis-positioning your app, changing course, and the "Pirates of Silicon | 12/17/10 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Build and Analyze 4: Constructive Criticism, not Aggressive | Marco Arment and Dan Benjamin discuss promo codes, the difficulty of blogging about technical topics, and the depth and quality of development frameworks. | 12/9/10 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Build and Analyze 3: Fight Club Rules | Marco Arment and Dan Benjamin discuss Apple's marketing requirements for apps, disarming angry customers with human responses, and what to do if you accidentally ship a fatal bug in an App Store app. | 12/2/10 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Build and Analyze 2: The App Store | Marco Arment and Dan Benjamin discuss the App Store, licensing, public and private APIs, app management, uninstallations, and more. | 11/18/10 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Build and Analyze 1: Update All | Marco Arment and Dan Benjamin discuss the impending iOS release, multitasking in iOS, Verizon vs. AT&T, Mifi vs. iPad 3G, and more. | 11/11/10 | Free | View In iTunes |
| Total: 78 Episodes |
Customer Reviews
Awesome.
Quality show. Marco and Dan are great hosts and they accomplish what most geeks don't, realizing that they are not the average user.
You have earned a subscriber for as long as you have the show gentleman.
Great Coffee Information
This is my favorite coffee podcast, and one of the most informative! I'm grateful for all the detailed information about how to get started as a coffee connoisseur, and even inspired me to consider roasting my own coffee beans.
Great stuff.
Awesome new podcast. 5by5 keeps getting better and better.
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