In this weeks show we (Scotty & John) discuss the initial problems with iOS 8 for both users and developers. We also ask is the iPhone 6 too big? Will we see a smaller 6S next year? Will see any new Macs or iPads this year? Scotty also shares his git problems while John talks about some current debate about people baying iPhones just to ship to China. Finally Scotty announces he has left App.net. Once again this week I (Scotty) have had recording problems and whole bunch of crackle appears a...
Sep 26, 2014•35 min
The problems John had getting a build of Findery ready for iOS 8 and how Google saved the day. The pros and cons of having a dedicated build machine The issue of bloated view controllers inspired by a chapter in a new book "Step By Step iOS Development" Keeping tech publishing viable How that time between major releases can feel like being in the wilderness. Documentation : is it still relevant? Why neither Scotty or John will have a shiny new iPhone this Friday...
Sep 17, 2014•40 min
After another few weeks off Scotty and Jon finally catch up and talk about this weeks Apple event and it's consequences for the community. John tells us about LemonJar, an awesome iOS console log viewer while Scotty describes his new Synology DS414 NAS and how he has gone completely mad and left GitHub. Some how Scotty also managed to screw up his audio hence this weeks title, Sorry about the crackle.
Sep 11, 2014•40 min
Again it's a little late as I have been really busy. In this episode Scotty and John talk about how to build teams. Should Apple open an engineering office away from Cupertino and if so where. Scotty starts looking at OS X Server and potential cloud hosts for said server. (He would like to hear from people who have tried using it OS X Server or cloud OS X hosting). John shares his first experience of trying to develop an iOS 8 extension and they both talk about the current "can you make money on...
Aug 26, 2014•34 min
We recorded this one a few weeks ago but it's taken me ages to get round to editing and releasing it. In this episode Scotty talks to John about how his trip to Europe is going and Scotty announces RemObjects new Swift compiler for Android (called Silver) and new Mac IDE (called Fire).
Aug 17, 2014•34 min
Scotty and John talk how Apple are recruiting lots of indie developers and discuss how the next phase of development for indie developers , now they are designer aware, is to become marketing and sales aware.
Jul 12, 2014•32 min
Scotty and John talk about Apple's new language Swift. When you should adopt it and what it means for Objective-C. They also talk about the new blogging engine running this site and Scotty brings us up to date on his backup woes with JustCloud.
Jul 01, 2014•38 min
Scotty and John talk about how good last weeks podcast that was never released was, Scotty's cloud backup problems and the future of ideas.
Jun 27, 2014•40 min
Scotty and John review WWDC 14 and Altconf and discuss some of the ramifications of the announcements made.
Jun 10, 2014•38 min
Scotty and John talk about the problems cloud services have being reliable and the fact that nothing in ever actually free. Also with 1 week to go there are the bound to be proven wrong WWDC predictions.
May 28, 2014•41 min
Scotty and John talk about Parse, the Facebook API's, embedding a UICollectionView in a UITableViewCell and the release of the NSConference 6 videos.
May 21, 2014•35 min
Scotty and John talk about John's solution to his UICollectionView problem, Scotty's discovery of geo support in MongoDB, John's new experiment with Parse and the actual, yes really, the actual release of avTag.
May 13, 2014•41 min
Scotty and John talk about the limitations of UICollectionView, NoSQL databases such as MongoDB and Google Analytics for iOS.
May 06, 2014•36 min
Scotty and John talk about the impending release of avTag and propose an app to sort socks before going on to talk about lighter stuff such as trademark infringement, the Apple stock split and what might happen at WWDC.
Apr 30, 2014•34 min
Scotty and John talks about implementing support conversations in your app using Helpshift. Internationalization using Tethras and Syncing using Data Abstract from RemObjects.
Apr 23, 2014•30 min
Scotty and John discuss the Heartbleed bug, password security, Accessibility and wonder if there will be a 2nd round of WWDC tickets.
Apr 15, 2014•35 min
Scotty and John chat talk the WWDC ticket lottery, the Beautiful Pixels review of Findery, Rails Girls Summer of Code and Johns first peep at Android development.
Apr 10, 2014•30 min
Scotty and John chat talk about is Macworld still relevant, the challenges of inheriting old code bases and the sudden rejection of apps that use QTkit from the Mac App Store
Apr 06, 2014•32 min
Scotty and John chat about their favourite moments from NSConference 6 and John's trip to Athens
Apr 01, 2014•37 min
Scotty and John chat about the the world wide release of Findery and Scotty's Nexus 7.
Mar 13, 2014•45 min
Scotty and John chat about the release of RemObjects C# (A project Scotty has been working on) and the up coming shipping of Findery. The also talk about attending conferences based around other communities than your own.
Mar 05, 2014•32 min
Scotty and John chat about the future of Microsoft, 37 Signals decision to slim down it's product range (and how we should take note as indie developers), the first week of Reviewcast and NSConference
Feb 11, 2014•29 min
Scotty and John chat about the release of Reviewcast, Paper for Facebook and GitFlow with GitHub
Feb 04, 2014•34 min
Scotty and John chat about how ridiculous the stock market is. How open source code should have good stewardship. Handling bad connectivity in mobile apps and Scotty's total failure to release.
Jan 28, 2014•30 min
Scotty and John chat about Johns friendship with Stuart Copeland, talking about money,the changes in who writes/commissions software and using pascal to write iOS code. Scotty also reveals his plans for Reviewcast and admits his procrastination over how to deploy it while John drops a few hints on the world wide release of Findery. Finally they wish Matt Gemmell all the best for his new career and talk about a few free resources.
Jan 28, 2014•34 min
Scotty and John chat about the failure of EverPix, Touch Typing, Keyboards, Trackpads and Mice
Jan 15, 2014•29 min
Scotty and John chat about whats happened in 2013 and what they predict for 2014... Oh and maybe once or twice they mention it's the 100th show.
Dec 18, 2013•39 min
Scotty and John chat about the iOS 7 redesign of Findery and how the user experience was developed by watching people use the app to attempt to achieve different tasks.
Dec 12, 2013•31 min
Scotty and John chat about NSConference, the concept of MVP and having to Kill Your Darlings. Scotty also doesn't know what to do about getting a new developer machine.
Dec 03, 2013•33 min
Scotty and John chat about software the balance between perceived software stagnation vs taking the time to ensure software stability.
Nov 27, 2013•35 min
