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The iDeveloper Podcast

Steve Scott (Scotty) & John Foxideveloper.co
The iDeveloper Podcast is a magazine style podcast for OS X and iOS developers. Each episode looks at subjects such as recent developer news, technical issues around cocoa and cocoa touch, the latest tools and utilities as well as examining the business side of being an indie Mac or iOS developer.
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Episodes

185 - Who the Heck is Tim Smith

Scotty and John discuss if they feel Cocoa would be done differently if written in Swift and John shares his WWDC lab experience.

Jun 15, 201836 min

182 - StackCast with Stack View John

Scotty and John are back after 4 months. John gets straigh back into talking about StackViews and Scotty talks about his recent experiences with React Native.

May 24, 201831 min

181 - The Missing Episode

In this episode recorded back in Jan 2018 Scotty & John discuss Stack Views, fighting the frameworks and some of the overheads involved in having large unit test suites.

May 22, 201831 min

180 - StackView Is My Safe Word

The boys are back with a fragile agreement to be nice to each other. They praise stack views and slam bindings while not really caring about the recent intel chip security issues. They also discuss how submodules are still confusing and Scotty wishes he could use the Swift Package Manager.

Jan 16, 201824 min

179 - Bursting with Excitement

After a long time away the boys are back and John is so excited he has literally split open. Once they have cleaned up the mess that made they talk about the Lottie open source library, accessibility and the iPhone X

Jan 12, 201833 min

178 - Dude, Right On

Back after Scotty's vacation the boys talk about the release of the Netflix app in Hebrew. John's new adventures in Swift and Scottys disappointment with the way Realmac Software have handled the closing of Typed.com

Aug 17, 201734 min

177 - An accessibly functional BBQ on the roof.

Scotty and John record this episode while preparing a BBQ. They talk about accessibilbity , internationalization, refactoring , unit testing, code review and functional programming.

Jul 11, 201731 min

176 - Easily Pleased Moron

Scotty and John discuss a Mac app called Kite Compositor designed to help you learn and use Core Animation. They also discuss how Scotty is getting on with his new iPad Pro and his continuing love for the Xcode 9 editor. They also discuss thew recent Scott Forstall interview about the development of the iPhone and Scotty shares about how hard it is for new small companies to work with large clients and reveals he is beginning to learn the functional language elixir.

Jun 29, 201734 min

174 - WWDC 2017 Wrap Up

Scotty and John wrap up their week at WWDC by recording an episode in the Apple podcasts studio.

Jun 09, 201741 min

172 - Day Care

Scotty and John discuss the day care at WWDC as the walk to day 2 of the conference.

Jun 06, 201710 min

171 - WWDC 2017: Day One

Scotty and John chat about their first day at WWDC 2017 while walking back to their accommodation.

Jun 06, 201719 min

170 - On the road again

John and Scotty record a quick episode while driving from San Francisco to San Jose for WWDC. They discuss why JSON is great, ponder about why they are not that excited to be heading to WWDC and share a listener offer.

Jun 05, 201713 min

169 - Pleasure Jolt Technology

The boys discuss stickers and business cards, a new Xcode utility, events they are going to attend at WWDC, iOS's pleasure jolt technology and their hopes Xcode 9.

Jun 03, 201736 min

168 - My dads animations don't suck!

Scotty and John discuss what would happen if their GitHub accounts got hijacked. John also shares about some problems that happen when things are not visible and Scotty shares some highlights from UIKonf in Berlin.

May 28, 201733 min

167 - Happy Dance

John's MPVolumeView soap opera continues. A discussion about up front architecture and approach and Scotty talking about what is next for him.

May 16, 201732 min

166 - Fun with Waffles

John and Scotty praise Core Animation and then go on to discuss the pros and cons of working in an office compared to to working remotely on your own. They also discuss if the terms junior and senior developer have any relevance in the modern developer world.

May 08, 201735 min

165 - Not advancing the state of the art

John and Scotty talk about Scottys trip to Switzerland. Johns issues with MPVolumeView and Apple's appstore affiliate program changes. Both also offer their opinions on code review and data privacy.

May 01, 201734 min

164 - What has Python ever done for us?

Scotty talks about his week fighting WKWebView and John does the same for UITableView and how he wishes he could use UICollectionView instead. John also sets off on a rant about Swift leaving Scotty to defend the changes between Swift 2.3 and 3.1. Scotty shares about 3 interviews he will be doing at the App Builders conference in Switzerland. John announces he will once again be drumming for James Dempsey and Breakpoints again this year near WWDC and Scotty reveals he will be talking at CocoaCon...

Apr 25, 201730 min

163 - Fairly focused and minimum waffling

After being away for a few weeks Scotty and John are back. They discuss John's trip to Greece and Scotty shares how Reviewcast has been sherlocked by iOS 10.3. They also share some listener feedback and their WWDC ticket success. Once again we have to apologise as we have a few audio issues.

Apr 20, 201735 min

162 - Learning is like carrying a condom.

Scotty shares his rails deployment issues and moans about having to invest so much time in learning new things. John looks forward to his up coming trip to Athens and they both make some random WWDC predications .

Mar 18, 201733 min

161 - Batteries Not Included

Scotty & John talk about hybrid desktop applications as well as their increased use of web applications . Scotty shares progress on his side projects and John continues to share his battle with internationalised text.

Mar 13, 201735 min

160 - John's Random Thing

This week John continues his series of random thoughts by talking about an internationalization gotcha he came across and Scotty discuses his lack of progress on his side project. The discussion also includes thoughts on WWDC the future of Swift and the Amazon S3 failure.

Mar 06, 201730 min

159 - Mac 'n' Rails

In a slightly longer show this week Scotty and John discuss how some well known Mac apps seem to be doing just as well outside of the Mac App Store as they were in it as well as how Kickstarter has been used recently by two well know developers to find development projects. Scotty gives an update on his side project and how he is resurrecting Reviewcast and preparing a "Swift in One Hour" training course. John shares his battle with some right to left text issues and how he over came them....

Feb 16, 201738 min

158 - Not Cut Out To Be Indie

John talks about the Netflix hack day and discusses how hack days really help you to not only explore ideas but how to sell them as well. Scotty updates us on his progress at becoming indie and the problems he is having choosing a project to work on based on his inability to focus on one thing for a long time.

Feb 09, 201735 min

157 - Mission Planning

John holds Scotty's feet over the fire concerning his week of "Mission Planning" as part of his 2017 goal to ship something.

Jan 13, 201731 min
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