2020

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In this episode, Donn and KG talk about the post Tim Bray recently wrote – Why Google did Android. They then touch on Chrome becoming a monopoly and tips on what folks can do to be a little more privacy conscious on the web.

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We’ve all heard of the Y2K problem, but there’s also a similar coming up this 2038 for us programmers. In this episode we dive into the 2038 problem (… after of course talking about our opinions on new year resolutions).

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In this episode KG and Donn talk about KG’s recent jaunt with Docker. In the attempt to setup continuous deployment for his blog, KG explains his simple requirement and how it lands up requiring some basic Docker. Donn then closes it out with some interesting in-depth knowledge on how to use Docker

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It finally happens! KG and Donn talk about Coroutines with two experts at Google Manuel & Sean. We’ve waited quite sometime on Fragmented to discuss this topic. We wanted to make sure Coroutines was mature enough to be compared with the contenders. Listen to find out more!

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2019

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In this decompress episode, Donn and KG talk about how their 2019 went. It goes from Dagger talk to Kotlin talk to Kotlin Conf talk. Give it a listen and enjoy!

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How do you know what to test when you don’t even know how to write the code that you need to test? This is a paradox that many developers find themselves in daily.

In this episode Donn talks about his strategy for dealing with unknowns in programming, namely around testing and how to figure out how to write tests for new code that might be difficult, unfamiliar or even legacy code.

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App Modularization has plenty of benefits and a lot of Android devs today are starting to modularize their android app.

A common problem though that most folks will start to run into is – how do you manage your database objects in these modules? do you create a single module with all your database dependencies (modularize by layer), do you do the right thing and modularize by feature so each module has it’s own database file etc.?

In this episode Kaushik grapples with that question and tries to come up with an answer.

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In the world of Functional programming where pure functions don’t encourage side-effects, how does on actually do any IO?

So in this brave new world where everyone is adopting more FP principles, do we just stop doing database operations? Listen to this episode to find out.