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#12 - Brian Plummer: Working for the New York Times, Mobile Development in 2010, GraphQL, Fakes vs Mocks, Code Reviews and more!

2020/8/26
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Today's guest is Brian Plummer - veteran mobile developer, speaker & developer at the New York Times, Nike, TouchLab & currently OKCupid.

In this episode we discuss:

  • How he got started in development
  • What mobile development was like in 2010
  • His experience working at the New York Times
  • How he got into public speaking
  • His philosophy on code reviews
  • His thoughts on GraphQL
  • Fakes vs Mocks when it comes to testing
  • And more!

You can find the show notes for this episode @ CoffeeAndCodingPod.com/episode12)


πŸ”— **Connect with Brian**

- [Twitter](https://twitter.com/plummermakes))
- [OkCupid Tech Blog](https://tech.okcupid.com/author/brian/))
- [A list of Brian's Talks](https://gist.github.com/brianPlummer/ea18de96de4e76f6b824344fcc04c757))


πŸ‘€ **Things discussed in the show**

- [Mockk](https://mockk.io/))
- [GraphQL Apollo Client](https://www.apollographql.com/))
- [Brian's GraphQL talk at DroidCon](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ugUFKB1LsNE))
- [New York Time's Android App](https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?hl=en_GB&id=com.nytimes.android))
- [Brian's Talk on Code Reviews](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iQEZQ4AYGIg))
- [TouchLab](https://touchlab.co/))