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!
🔗 Connect with Brian
👀 Things discussed in the show
- Mockk
- GraphQL Apollo Client
- Brian’s GraphQL talk at DroidCon
- New York Time’s Android App
- Brian’s Talk on Code Reviews
- TouchLab
👉️ Connect with me
You can find me on Twitter, Instagram, LinkedIn & at robj.me.
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