NSBrief http://nsbrief.com A brief podcast for cocoa developers, talking about interesting developer-y stuff Feeder 2.5.12(2294); Mac OS X Version 10.11.5 (Build 15F31a) http://reinventedsoftware.com/feeder/ http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/tech/rss en 2012 Magical Panda Software Wed, 18 May 2016 00:08:26 +0800 Wed, 18 May 2016 00:08:26 +0800 http://nsbrief.com/nsbriefpodcastcover_144x135.png NSBrief http://nsbrief.com 144 135 Saul Mora A brief podcast for cocoa developers, talking about interesting developer-y stuff. cocoa,developers,development,code,ios,mac,programming,conversation,chat clean Magical Panda Software show@nsbrief.com no #152: Justin Miller Justin Miller (@incanus77) is the Senior iOS engineer at MapBox. In this interview, Janie and Justin discuss using OpenGL and Metal to build map frameworks. They also talk about some new stuff going on at MapBox.

]]> Mon, 14 Sep 2015 23:24:42 +0800 41040477-D8DD-4226-A648-FA271E3089E0 no 49:16 #151: Vicki Wenderlich Vicki Wenderlich (@vwenderlich) is the lead designer at Ray Wenderlich.com. There she has built all the custom artwork for nearly all the tutorials including the artwork delivered with each tutorial sample project. In this episode, Janie and Vicki discuss careers and designing games with game developers.

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]]> Tue, 08 Sep 2015 06:47:12 +0800 A0032234-78CC-42F3-B720-1D8E68FC9DE0 Saul Mora no 44:19 NSBrief #150: BJ Miller http://nsbrief.com/150-bj-miller BJ Miller discusses his experiences writing a technical book

]]> Mon, 31 Aug 2015 14:30:52 +0800 F7EBCD70-96D4-48DF-8601-7A593AE8BA31 no 37:35 #149: 360idev 2015 Live at 360idev 2015, Saul catches up with Charles Perry about the state of the indie iOS developer. And Janie chats with Stephen Tramer about managing security for iOS.

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]]> Wed, 26 Aug 2015 23:19:23 +0800 185BCDBE-4A60-48B2-B06C-48A3EA4B8FB5 no 1:00:58 #148: Manuel Chakravarty http://nsbrief.com/148-manuel-chakravarty Manuel Chakravarty (@tacticalgrace) is a self described Lambda Scientist. He is the developer of Haskell for Mac. In this episode, Janie chat with Manuel about a recent talk he gave to the Sydney Cocoaheads on Functional Programming in a Stateful World

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]]> Mon, 10 Aug 2015 23:17:04 +0800 5CEA1D9F-21BE-47E0-81D0-6FAE9752E2D8 no 55:03 #147: Genady Okrain http://nsbrief.com/147-genady-okrain Genady Okrain (@genadyo) is an iOS Developer based in Tel Aviv, Israel. He is also the developer behind the WWDC Parties App. In this episode Genady stops by altConf and chats with Saul about the wild week he had at WWDC.

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]]> Wed, 01 Jul 2015 00:59:01 +0800 7380F0C4-04A6-4576-AEA6-166D9A7206E0 no 20:47 #146: Virginia Roberts http://nsbrief.com/146-virginia-roberts Virginia Roberts @askvirginia is a podcaster, MC for the AppCamp4Girls, Online Dating Coach and most recently an app developer. In this episode, Saul and Virginia talk about creating an app from a crazy idea and the business of apps in the current iOS AppStore.

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]]> Wed, 01 Jul 2015 00:51:41 +0800 FDFD4606-639C-4C2F-AB23-81B42777D52F no 48:42 #145: Macpaw http://nsbrief.com/145-macpaw At altConf, Saul ran into the fine folks behind the awesome apps at Macpaw. In this episode, Saul talks with the CEO of Macpaw about a new tool and server for Mac developers, Devmate. If you've thought that it was really tough to release a Mac app outside the Mac App Store, Devmate may have you thinking again.

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]]> Wed, 01 Jul 2015 00:39:09 +0800 DB03B28C-8D30-4D2C-B049-3B5B2B21CB40 no 45:31 #144: Josh Smith http://nsbrief.com/144-josh-smith Josh Smith (@kognate) is an iOS and Mac Developer and regular speaker at Cocoaconf. In this episode, Saul and Josh discuss not shipping your hobbies as a game developer and other real deep life topics pertaining to software development.

]]> Wed, 24 Jun 2015 14:09:59 +0800 C067B7CC-0F2B-44CE-B547-5EFBFA6047DB no 45:01 #143: Cesare Rocchi http://nsbrief.com/143-cesare-rocchi Cesare Rocchi (@_funkyboy) is the owner of Studio Magnolia. In this episode, Cesare and Janie discuss the possible ways to make a living as a developer on the AppStore in the post gold rush age.

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]]> Tue, 02 Jun 2015 07:10:10 +0800 3235CB22-B327-4E2E-9526-096A6CEDB25E no 49:07 #142: Ellen Shapiro http://nsbrief.com/142-ellen-shapiro Ellen Shapiro (@designatednerd) is a developer, speaker, and tutorial author in Chicago. She currently works for Vokal Interactive. She talks about her previous life in Hollywood and her passionate belief in mentorship.

]]> Tue, 26 May 2015 10:39:13 +0800 9B99CFED-3498-4682-9C5B-EA7BD4BBB897 no 1:16:20 #141: Chad Fowler http://nsbrief.com/141-chad-fowler Chad Fowler is the CTO of Wunderlist, a cross platform todo list app. In this episode, recorded in Istanbul, Turkey, Saul and Chad discuss working with legacy code and infrastructure.

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]]> Mon, 18 May 2015 09:50:24 +0800 C13FFA5F-CC22-4765-9286-15CD028D7577 no 51:28 #140: David Ronnqvist http://nsbrief.com/140-david-ronnqvist David Rönnqvist (@davidronnqvist), author of "3D Graphics With Scene Kit" speaks about why he wrote his book, how he got involved in 3D graphics programming, and how to experiment with creative user interfaces.

]]> Mon, 11 May 2015 22:00:58 +0800 232082CE-ADEF-4D42-B84E-079EB49C0C99 no 46:38 #139: Eric Skroch http://nsbrief.com/139-eric-skroch Eric Skroch is the maintainer of the Core Plot open source project. In this episode he talks about his experience taking over an open source project from another person and what it is like to maintain an older code base.

]]> Tue, 21 Apr 2015 23:46:08 +0800 67AD0FBA-BEDE-4C0B-B1AB-202BDE2BDD2F no 22:30 #138: Chris Adamson http://nsbrief.com/138-chris-adamson Chris Adamson(@invalidname) is an independent iOS developer, author, and conference speaker. Chris speaks about his most recent book and his experiences on the conference circuit.

]]> Mon, 13 Apr 2015 23:12:33 +0800 34C8FD84-F3ED-46AC-B635-1D2AFAF77C82 no 1:17:21 #137: Gordon Fontenot http://nsbrief.com/137-gordon-fontenot Gordon Fontenot (@gfontenot) is a at Thoughtbot. He has contributed to the Argo JSON parsing library for Swift. In this episode, Saul and Gordon discuss the excellent series of Thoughtbot articles on deriving functional code in Swift.

]]> Mon, 23 Mar 2015 21:30:29 +0800 C04E72AC-C813-4C7D-903E-C0C6BF6F9E3C NSBrief no 1:04:22 #136: Orta Therox http://nsbrief.com/136-orta-therox Orta Therox (@orta) is the Design Dictator of the CocoaPods project and a prominent member of the Open Source Community. In this conversation, we get to hear about CocoaPods, the importance of kindness, and _why you should contribute to open source.

]]> Mon, 16 Mar 2015 13:42:27 +0800 044669C5-A831-4772-B5D2-9B82F591C11E no 1:09:44 #135: Michael Tyson http://nsbrief.com/135-michael-tyson Michael Tyson(@MichaelTyson) is the developer of Loopy and Audiobus. He discusses his years roaming Europe in an RV and talks about how he developed an app that has been featured on The Tonight Show with Jimmy Fallon.

]]> Tue, 17 Feb 2015 00:54:42 +0800 F0A27927-EB00-4F5C-954E-CF08FE3D453B no 34:16 Janie Clayton Special Announcement http://nsbrief.com/special-announcement-2015 Sun, 08 Feb 2015 03:29:44 +0800 E06A39CD-6184-48AD-BF5A-0566D24306DD Saul Mora no 7:52 #134: Rob Rix http://nsbrief.com/134-rob-rix Rob Rix (@rob_rix) is a developer at Github and works on Github for Mac. In this episode, we discuss some of the differences between Object Oriented and Functional Programming and living with Swift.

Links ]]> Tue, 27 Jan 2015 00:44:46 +0800 300FB5F4-5679-4C08-BC4C-73A97F3FCA97 no 1:10:28 #133: WatchKit Hackathon http://nsbrief.com/133-watchkit-hackathon On Sunday November 23, 2014, the world's first Apple Watch hackathon took place at the Hacker Dojo in Mountain View, California. There were many ideas and contest entries. Check this episode out to get an idea of some of the projects people worked on. As I've recently moved to Silicon Valley, I hope to bring more interviews from live events like the WatchKit Hackathon.

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]]> Wed, 26 Nov 2014 00:45:08 +0800 9A8F39DE-6317-4326-8818-E2D141964DE4 no 46:16 #132: Janie Clayton-Hasz http://nsbrief.com/132-janie-clayton-hasz Janie Clayton-Hasz (@redqueencoder) is a newcomer to the iOS scene based in Madison, Wisconson. In this episode, she catches up with Saul at the 360idev conference in Denver to chat about 3d graphics programming.

Episode Recorded Live at 360idev

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]]> Mon, 20 Oct 2014 02:17:19 +0800 8C63BA8C-6559-4D94-BFC3-276E4F0A7E15 no 32:32 #131: Jay Thrash http://nsbrief.com/131-jay-thrash Jay Thrash (@jaythrash) is a developer at AllScripts working on medical and health related apps before it was cool. In this episode, Jay and I discuss ways to put your View Controllers on a diet.

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]]> Sat, 20 Sep 2014 00:39:13 +0800 2E2D9397-7740-4819-971F-0D9E81916F23 no 59:36 #130: Ariel Michaeli http://nsbrief.com/130-ariel-michaeli Arial Michaeli (@arialmichaeli) is the co-founder and CEO of AppFigures.com, a mobile app store data aggregation service. Live from 360idev 2014, we chat about trends in the iOS, Google and other app stores!

Recorded LIVE at 360idev Denver, 2014

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]]> Mon, 08 Sep 2014 13:13:16 +0800 302F5324-C5C4-4C51-B847-37373909CAA1 no 52:02 #129: Aaron Douglas http://nsbrief.com/129-aaron-douglas Aaron Douglas (@astralbodies) is an engineer at Automattic, the company behind Wordpress and the Wordpress iOS application. Saul and Aaron chat about coordinating and contributing an open source project, application architecture and Core Data.

This episode was recorded LIVE at 360idev Denver, 2014

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]]> Sat, 06 Sep 2014 02:23:28 +0800 FDEC9D81-D62C-4C96-B3BD-E9826D90E2A1 no 52:06 #128: Josh Johnson http://nsbrief.com/128-josh-johnson Josh Johnson (@jnjosh) is an iOS developer at Two Toasters. After Cocoaconf Raleigh 2014, Josh and I talked about his talk on dealing with network APIs.

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]]> Thu, 07 Aug 2014 02:21:45 +0800 2796B2F3-BD9A-4F70-9D82-DC12F3BE7668 no 1:05:58 #127: Rob Napier http://nsbrief.com/127-rob-napier Rob Napier (@cocoaphony) is a Mac developer for Dell. In this conversation recorded after a recent Cocoaconf, we talk about Security, what it means for developers and what reasonable precautions you should take to protect your apps.

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]]> Fri, 01 Aug 2014 03:08:10 +0800 B57C2B08-A87C-4F69-BFF5-EBA69241C011 no 1:10:51 #126: Ash Furrow http://nsbrief.com/126-ash-furrow Ash Furrow (@ashfurrow) is Saul Mora's Twitter nemesis. In a battle to the death, those two champions of code fight for the future of developers around the World! See who wins in this blow by blow battle between Objective C, the reigning champion, and the newcomer, Swift!

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]]> Tue, 08 Jul 2014 02:56:19 +0800 2978ECAF-42DB-4EA9-A389-849B41328C32 no 1:04:55 #125 Walter Tyree http://nsbrief.com/125-walter-tyree Walter Tyree (@tyreeapps) is an independent iOS developer. In this episode, we discuss how Walter handles legacy code bases found when going into new client projects.

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]]> Sat, 28 Jun 2014 02:20:59 +0800 917CFD6C-82C7-4E23-A4EE-1837DA1A6E8C no 1:12:45 #124: Supertop http://nsbrief.com/124-supertop WWDC14 was a great event for Mac and iOS developers. In this episode, we talk to the guys behind the small dev team of Supertop, and we talk about their apps, Tokens and Castro. We also recap some of the week's events.

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]]> Mon, 16 Jun 2014 22:37:18 +0800 C3CA16A7-CD5A-4FA7-A810-84A243B35B4B Saul Mora no 53:55 #123: NSConference 6 http://nsbrief.com/123-nsconference-6 Sun, 15 Jun 2014 01:42:39 +0800 0C8398AF-8003-492F-B8C3-DA5AFDC952D6 no 2:18:23 #122: Marcus Zarra http://nsbrief.com/122-marcus-zarra Marcus Zarra (@mzarra) is the Legal and Financial director at Martian Craft. He has written a book on Core Data and contributes regularly to Stackoverflow.com answering developer's Core Data questions. In this interview, I caught up with Marcus at NSConference 6 in Leicester, England to discuss his fairly controversial talk on no using 3rd party frameworks and libraries.

]]> Wed, 28 May 2014 22:32:42 +0800 56ED7A35-4CA1-449C-8B7D-C06DB7ED8C54 no 1:00:55 #121: Paul Hadad http://nsbrief.com/121-paul-hadad Paul Hadad (@tapbot_paul) is the engineering half of Tapbots. In this episode, we talk about how Paul writes apps.

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]]> Tue, 01 Apr 2014 23:26:55 +0800 EB469FC1-7E98-45E6-971F-2460E51FE760 no 1:14:13 #120: Charles Perry http://nsbrief.com/120-charles-perry Charles Perry (@dazeend) is the founder of Metakite Software. In this episode, we talk about the perils of running your own business and the importance of adding accessibility in your apps.

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]]> Tue, 04 Mar 2014 17:43:11 +0800 F77AB0A1-AE65-4214-AA81-0DDBCEF9D155 no 1:05:04 #119: Krzysztof Zablocki http://nsbrief.com/119-krzysztof-zablocki Kyzystof Zablocki (@merowing_) works with Lextech Global Services and on new products at Pixle. He is also the author of the popular app, Foldify. In this episode we talk about code and fitness.

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]]> Fri, 14 Feb 2014 04:14:43 +0800 E17699CA-DE82-4C1B-9AD0-6CCA2662065F no 1:32:12 #118: Conrad Stoll http://nsbrief.com/118-conrad-stoll Conrad Stoll (@conradstoll) is a developer at Mutual Mobile. In this episode, we talk about some of the new bits in iOS7 and developing with the M7 chip in mind.

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]]> Mon, 10 Feb 2014 00:26:22 +0800 ADDDE179-67F8-4571-A188-95DE0608B013 Saul Mora no 1:00:59 #117: Matt Matteson http://nsbrief.com/117-matt-matteson Matt Matteson (@mattmatt) was the first employee at Path and is currently working on Lift. In this episode, we talk a bit about his adventures in the Silicon Valley startup culture.

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]]> Mon, 20 Jan 2014 23:05:35 +0800 7A3A463F-CD5B-4764-AE25-B90CDB535834 no 1:17:00 #116: Guy English http://nsbrief.com/116-guy-english Guy English (@gte) is the host of the popular Debug podcast. Guy is also a co-founder at Aged and Distilled, makers of Napkin. In this episode, we talk about Cingleton, and our long, long old grey beard development careers, and other fun topics.

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]]> Tue, 14 Jan 2014 00:14:24 +0800 DC6072E2-5AC1-41D6-880D-0435995E3916 no 1:49:42 #115: Tim Burks http://nsbrief.com/115-tim-burks Tim Burks (@timburks) is an independent iOS developer at Radtastical, based in Silicon Valley. Tim heads up the Silicon Valley iOS User Group. Tim is also the Director of Renaissance, The iOS App Makers' Conference. Tickets for Renaissance are on sale now!

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]]> Fri, 10 Jan 2014 23:32:40 +0800 7B5CBAE8-D3F2-4000-B990-3604D62573F9 no 1:12:26 #114: Peter Hosey http://nsbrief.com/114-peter-hosey Peter Hosey (@boredzo) is a Mac programmer. His credits include working on the Adium chat client. In this episode, we talk to Peter about a talk he gave at the MacTech Conference in LA and discuss things make a great user interface.

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]]> Tue, 07 Jan 2014 07:08:10 +0800 8C67D4F4-7057-441D-9DB0-52CD3B86DBC4 no 1:39:13 #113: Uli Kusterer http://nsbrief.com/113-uli-kusterer Uli Kusterer (@uliwitness) is a developer a Elgato. In this episode, we explore the crazy world of Objective C++ in all it's glory!

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]]> Tue, 17 Dec 2013 02:32:53 +0800 38359C08-A927-45E3-8DE6-73408674C61D no 1:52:16 #112: Simon Wolf http://nsbrief.com/112-simon-wolf Simon Wolf (@sgaw) is the man behind Otter Software. We join Simon hopefully toward the end of his epic journey in developing his avTag for iOS app.

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]]> Thu, 05 Dec 2013 00:56:30 +0800 757F3804-C445-4DB0-B447-E3FDE28880C2 Simon Wolf (@sgaw) is the man behind Otter Software. We join Simon hopefully toward the end of his epic journey in developing his avTag for iOS app. - Sponsored by HTTPea, a simple iOS HTTP query app for iOS Developers no 1:13:06 #111: Tony Arnold http://nsbrief.com/111-tony-arnold Tony Arnold (@tonyarnold) is the lead Developer at Cocoabots. In this episode, we talk about life and open source.

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]]> Mon, 18 Nov 2013 23:40:41 +0800 1E155BE9-B8E8-4641-85ED-BA66CCC3454D Tony Arnold (@tonyarnold) is the lead Developer at Cocoabots. In this episode, we talk about life and open source. Sponsored By: HTTPea - a simple but powerful tool for developers to send HTTP requests from any iOSDevice Sponsored by HTTPea - A simple but powerful tool for developers to send HTTP requests from your iOS device.]]> no 1:19:32 #110: Drew McCormack http://nsbrief.com/110-drew-mccormack Drew McCormack (@drewmccormack) is the founder of the Mental Faculty, an independent developer based in The Netherlands. Recently, Drew introduced a new, open source cloud syncing framework for Core Data called Core Data Ensembles. I recently caught up with Drew to discuss this new open source framework.

]]> Mon, 28 Oct 2013 21:48:23 +0800 6C4E6641-1980-4A26-B21D-614F9E062CF6 no 1:04:30 #109: Jonathan Rhyne http://nsbrief.com/109-jonthan-rhyne Jonathan Rhyne (@jdrhyne) is an attorney with . Jonathan joins Saul to talk about the legal necessities of running an app business today, in terms developers can understand. You can contact Jonathan for your legal inquiries at jdrhyne@gmail.com

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]]> Thu, 17 Oct 2013 00:48:29 +0800 C8EB508A-ED55-4322-8AE1-03DBEB134EA7 no 58:11 #108: Phil Letourneau and Olivier Charavel http://nsbrief.com/108-phil-letourneau-and-olivier-charavel Phil Letournou (@philletourneau) and Olivier Charavel (@charavel) design awesome products and client apps at Black Pixel. In this episode, we discuss the HIG for iOS and Mac and try to find out what this document actually does for developers.

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]]> Tue, 24 Sep 2013 02:00:11 +0800 E84F7CE7-5FDC-4C5C-8964-F4A1A2AE8C5E Saul Mora no 1:15:55 #107: Michele Titolo http://nsbrief.com/107-michele-titolo Michele Titolo (@micheletitolo) is a Senior Mobile Engineer at Prolific Interactive. She joins us to talk about web apis, and some things to keep in mind when writing apps for them. We also chat about some of the work Michele does to help encourage women in technology.

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]]> Mon, 02 Sep 2013 23:33:51 +0800 3237650E-66EE-4C1A-ADF4-B61E4B3CA0FB no 1:10:38 #106: Kirk Van Gorkom http://nsbrief.com/106-kirk-van-gorkom Kirk Van Gorkom (@kvangork) is the Lead Hammer at Forge Apps, an iOS and Rails client services shop. In this episode, Kirk gives a talk about his experiences in consulting and what he thinks is the future of indie consulting. This talk was recorded at the iOSDevCamp Colorado in Colorado Springs in May 2013.

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]]> Mon, 26 Aug 2013 23:06:43 +0800 C10441FD-1DD6-4D11-9325-EF8985D30C60 no 1:08:40 #105: Pete Hodgson http://nsbrief.com/105-pete-hodgson Pete Hodgson (@ph1) is an iOS and Ruby Developer at Thoughtworks. He is also creator and maintainer of Frank, an automated UI Testing tool for iOS developers. In this episode, we chat about the principles and practices of agile developers, and testing with frank.

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]]> Tue, 20 Aug 2013 00:23:01 +0800 AAD221ED-7093-4282-BC12-AC7B7F6E8CCE no 1:03:38 #104: Jean MacDonald http://nsbrief.com/104-jean-macdonald Jean MacDonald (@macgenie) is a Partner at Smile on My Mac and the Founder of The App Camp for Girls, an initiative to help introduce girls to the dirty work of making iOS apps.

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]]> Tue, 06 Aug 2013 03:27:13 +0800 6D8C8BB3-E528-4E0A-9158-E9EBD7580DA7 no 1:10:53 #103: iOSDevCamp 2013 http://nsbrief.com/103-iosdevcamp-2013 iOSDevCamp (@iOSDevCamp) is an annual event held in the heart of Silicon Valley. This year's event was at the Computer History Museum. In this episode, Saul caught up with long time organizer, Dom Sagolla, as and mingles with a few developers to talk about the app their team is working on.

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]]> Wed, 31 Jul 2013 03:27:04 +0800 52974DB5-18B1-421F-9DF8-EE7566541CD0 no 1:14:36 #102: Whitney Young http://nsbrief.com/102-whitney-young Whitney Young (@wbyoung) is the Co-founder and Chief Technology Officer at FadingRed. With over 8 years of experience developing for Apple platforms, he oversees all application development for the team.

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]]> Tue, 16 Jul 2013 03:26:58 +0800 1D41B775-B5DB-4585-A9F6-0A6074AF8582 no 1:51:44 #101: Linda Rising http://nsbrief.com/101-linda-rising Linda Rising (@RisingLinda) has a Ph.D. from Arizona State University in the field of object-based design metrics and a background that includes university teaching and industry work in telecommunications, avionics, and strategic weapons systems.

An internationally known presenter on topics related to patterns, retrospectives, agile development approaches, and the change process, Linda is the author of numerous articles and four books: Design Patterns in Communications Software (SIGS Reference Library), The Pattern Almanac 2000, The Patterns Handbook: Techniques, Strategies, and Applications (SIGS Reference Library), and Fearless Change: Patterns for Introducing New Ideas

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]]> Mon, 08 Jul 2013 19:50:04 +0800 C7D7C60A-DF6C-424F-BACC-272F4F83763A no 56:16 #100: Dave Thomas http://nsbrief.com/100-dave-thomas Dave Thomas is an adjunct research professor at Carleton University, and the University Of Queensland and is widely published in the software engineering literature. In this episode, we talk a walk down memory lane and look at languages past and present and compare them to Objective C.

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]]> Mon, 01 Jul 2013 14:19:00 +0800 950EED81-A564-4761-8D59-000A0A0E83B5 no 44:05 #99: Samantha John http://nsbrief.com/99-samantha-john Samantha John (@SamJ0hn) is the co-founder of Hopscotch Technologies and co-creator of Daisy the Dinosaur and Hopscotch apps for the iPad that help teach kids about programming. Saul was able to catch up with Samantha at WWDC13 and chat a little about how Daisy the Dinosaur are doing, how they're made, and what's next for these amazing apps.

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]]> Wed, 26 Jun 2013 03:27:36 +0800 655D1DE2-921B-4EB1-ADEC-7D7F90C78D4E no 27:12 #98: Jim Dovey http://nsbrief.com/98-jim-dovey Jim Dovey (@alanQuatermain) is a digital content evangelist, and former iOS Software Architect, at Kobo. In this episode, we take Jim down memory lane and talk about his work on the early days of hacking the AppleTV.

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]]> Tue, 04 Jun 2013 03:27:43 +0800 7725B46E-591F-413E-A0A5-B3B3405C3701 no 1:34:33 #97: Jon Reid http://nsbrief.com/97-jon-reid Jon Reid (@qcoding) is a test infected iOS engineer and blogs about testing iOS apps at QualityCoding.org. He also authored and maintains the OCMockito and OCHamcrest testing libraries.

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]]> Tue, 28 May 2013 03:27:49 +0800 698B311B-B5D7-4C00-A3CA-5F0DEE9895A0 no 1:34:55 #96: Ash Furrow http://nsbrief.com/96-ash-furrow Ash Furrow (@ashfurrow) is a developer at teehan+lax and formerly the lead iOS Engineer at 500px.

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]]> Tue, 21 May 2013 03:28:05 +0800 DA54865F-081B-4DE9-9EC2-EAF3578BFC14 no 1:04:11 #95: Dave Addey http://nsbrief.com/95-dave-addey Dave Addey (@daveaddey) is the founder of Agant, an iOS Development agency in the UK. Dave started Agant by bootstrapping his popular app, UK TrainTimes, on evenings and weekends. In this episode, we explore Dave's experiences in going from a one man side project to a full blown app agency.

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]]> Mon, 13 May 2013 22:25:01 +0800 A03586BE-A406-47D9-AD0C-6332B78BB537 no 1:09:20 #94: James Dempsey http://nsbrief.com/94-james-dempsey James Dempsey (@jamesdempsey) is a former Apple employee who had a special flare for making certain WWDC sessions special, he would bust out in song on stage for the luck folk who attended his talk. In this episode, we talk to James about his path to nerd song stardom!

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]]> Thu, 09 May 2013 02:41:16 +0800 1C8C675E-FD49-4C6B-8751-917F0CFEFF4D no 42:46 #93: Michael Fey http://nsbrief.com/93-michael-fey Michael Fey (@mrrooni) is a developer for Kevin Hoctor's empire at NoThirst Software. In this episode, we talk to Michael about the open source Core Data cloud sync solution built for MoneyWell, TICoreDataSync.

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]]> Thu, 02 May 2013 23:26:16 +0800 E46FF194-BA10-4AB9-B6BE-6735493E03E8 no 1:32:16 #92: Michael Jurewitz http://nsbrief.com/92-michael-jurewitz Michael Jurewitz (@jury) is back working at Apple, a small fruit company in Cupertino, CA. Previously, he was head of product design at Black Pixel, and prior to that, he was a Developer Tools Evangelist, also at Apple. In this episode, we talk to Michael Jurewitz about things you can do to be more successful in the either the iOS or Mac App Stores.

**Editorial Note**: This episode was recorded in November 2012, while Michael Jurewitz was still working at Black Pixel. This episode was previously never released because of the numerous technical issues that occurred while recording. The audio quality is not great, however, as we will be unable to re-interview Michael Jurewitz for the foreseeable future, we thought it was best to release this episode.

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]]> Mon, 22 Apr 2013 23:43:58 +0800 EE6DE258-92D6-46FA-9DD7-3A521003AFD0 no 1:30:51 #91: Inspect http://nsbrief.com/91-inspect Inspect was the first RubyMotion conference held in Brussels Belgium on March 28 and 29 in 2013. Saul happened to be in the area and made a quick stop over to check out the state of RubyMotion and talk to a few attendees.

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]]> Wed, 10 Apr 2013 05:55:07 +0800 48FC3161-42C0-4D03-A26A-478107772068 no 40:16 #90: Wil Shipley http://nsbrief.com/90-wil-shipley Wil Shipley (@wilshipley) is the man behind Delicious Monster, and author of the groundbreaking Mac App, Delicious Library. Join Saul and Wil in this episode as we talk about, well, just a bunch of basically random topics and things that happened over Wil's career.

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]]> Wed, 03 Apr 2013 22:09:20 +0800 002C54B4-87A3-4720-B65B-87345476157F no 1:40:58 #89: WebObjects http://nsbrief.com/89-webobjects Chuck Hill and Pascal Robert join us to discuss the current state of WebObjects. We discuss some of the history and architecture of WebObjects, and a bit on how you can use it now.

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]]> Mon, 25 Mar 2013 17:53:27 +0800 7CC8E433-CAE7-41D4-B30E-CD487AD990D8 no 1:12:20 #88: Bob Kressin http://nsbrief.com/88-bob-kressin Bob Kressin (@macisv) joins us to talk about the amazing app opportunities in developing apps that talk to bluetooth LE based hardware. But first, Kiana and Saul discuss the recent gathering of mobile developers at Mdevcon in Amsterdam

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]]> Thu, 21 Mar 2013 08:03:46 +0800 0C7ABC43-D6DC-40A1-8005-BF1386031FBD no 1:06:02 #87: NSConference 2013 http://nsbrief.com/87-nsconference-2013 This week, we attended NSConference 2013 in Leicester, UK. In this episode, special guest Paul Darcey and host Saul Mora discuss the atmosphere, vibe and experience of NSConference. Saul also chats with Peter Steinberger on his experience in selling a PDK library to iOS developers. We then head up to Edinburgh, Scotland and talk with husband and wife team, (Jaime Montgomery)[http://twitter.com/th_in_gs] and Emily Thomforde about their upcoming game "Coolson's Artisanal Chocolate Factory"

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]]> Wed, 13 Mar 2013 00:57:38 +0800 9E92AC19-B5CD-4D12-ABBF-E26F5CB85E2F no 1:30:51 #86: Graham Lee http://nsbrief.com/86-graham-lee Graham Lee (@secboffin) is the Chief Security Boffin at Agant Ltd, a small development agency in the UK. In somewhat of a followup from our chat on GNUStep, we talk about distributed objects in Cocoa. We eventually talk about what we should be using these days, instead.

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]]> Tue, 05 Mar 2013 14:00:54 +0800 B0EFB4C2-CF60-4AB2-8F50-DC5489AF5DA3 no 1:02:37 #85: Gregory Casamento http://nsbrief.com/85-gregory-casamento Greg Casamento (@bheron) is the lead maintainer of the GNUStep project, an open source implementation of many of the original NEXT frameworks. Included in this discussion is some of the history of NeXT, OpenStep and, sadly enough, Java.

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]]> Tue, 26 Feb 2013 14:24:45 +0800 F81CDAAB-EC96-4FC5-9274-127E6DE53A44 Magical Panda Greg Casamento (@bheron) is the lead maintainer of the GNUStep project, an open source implementation of many of the original NEXT frameworks. Included in this discussion is some of the history of NeXT, OpenStep and, sadly enough, Java. no 1:33:12 Saul Mora #84: Mike Lee http://nsbrief.com/84-mike-lee Mike Lee (@bmf) is the Mayor of Appsterdam, and the Alpha Primate at the New Lemurs. Recently, he and his team launched a new game, Lemurs Chemistry" Water. We chat with Mike to discuss his experiences launching this new game.

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]]> Tue, 19 Feb 2013 14:01:07 +0800 7089111F-AD24-4A87-B315-BE8236497C15 Mike Lee (@bmf) is the Mayor of Appsterdam, and the Alpha Primate at the New Lemurs. Recently, he and his team launched a new game, Lemurs Chemistry" Water. We chat with Mike to discuss his experiences launching this new game. no 1:15:42 #83.5: Brittany Tarvin http://nsbrief.com/83-brittany-tarvin Sat, 16 Feb 2013 02:20:37 +0800 F730DF7B-C24E-49DF-BB84-6C7B889B4502 no 14:26 #83: Brittany Tarvin http://nsbrief.com/83-brittany-tarvin Brittany Tarvin (@wildchocolate) is a developer at Fading Red, makers of fine Mac Apps. In this episode, we chat about Mac development, and about women in technology.

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]]> Wed, 13 Feb 2013 03:42:36 +0800 5A7634AC-E7F0-4352-92F7-B3871988EC07 no 1:06:11 #82: Nick Arnott http://nsbrief.com/82-nick-arnott Nick Arnott (@noir) is the head of Quality Assurance at Double Encore. Nick has recently been blogging about breaking apps, and we talk about some things to try before you ship your apps.

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]]> Tue, 05 Feb 2013 12:37:26 +0800 4217BCEA-6024-44CF-A3CF-FC4C66029B5D Nick Arnott (@noir) is the head of Quality Assurance at Double Encore. Nick has recently been blogging about breaking apps, and we talk about some things to try before you ship your apps. no 1:25:24 #81: Justin Spahr-Summers http://nsbrief.com/81-justin-spahr-summers Justin Spahr-Summers (@jspahrsummers) is a Githubber working on Github for Mac. He has also written some fun Objective C extensions, and works on Reactive Cocoa. We talk about these projects and more on this episode of NSBrief.

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]]> Tue, 29 Jan 2013 12:10:51 +0800 8DFC757C-1575-4108-999B-2AD784D9CC4B @jspahrsummers) is a Githubber working on Github for Mac. He has also written some fun Objective C extensions, and works on Reactive Cocoa. We talk about these projects and more on this episode of NSBrief. Sponsor

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]]> Tue, 22 Jan 2013 00:31:10 +0800 AA0E7765-D0F9-4DDC-87FF-1AE35B350721 In this episode, we chat with Chris and Amin, developers of the upcoming cloud service, Objective Cloud. no 1:13:15 #79: Ron Lisle http://nsbrief.com/79-ron-lisle Ron Lisle is the Directory of iOS Engineering at Mutual Mobile. Ron runs a blog called iosunittesting.com and we sit down to chat with Ron about his thoughts on unit testing and how to test better (or in some cases at all).

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]]> Tue, 15 Jan 2013 02:07:32 +0800 26A94C53-701E-45A4-955C-9B125D3150CF Ron Lisle is the Directory of iOS Engineering at Mutual Mobile. Ron runs a blog called iosunittesting.com and we sit down to chat with Ron about his thoughts on unit testing and how to test better (or in some cases at all). no 1:04:28 #78: Dave Verwer http://nsbrief.com/78-dave-verwer Dave Verwer (@daveverwer) works at Shiny Development based in Sunny England. He's also responsible for the popular weekly newsletter iOSDevWeekly

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]]> Tue, 08 Jan 2013 03:05:23 +0800 AEFADAE5-1131-410A-9D1C-C439596D5D10 no 1:01:05 #77: Live Year End Special http://nsbrief.com/77-live-year-end-special For this Special Live End of the Year Edition of NSBrief, we invited listeners to join us for a conversation on various topics. We chatted about the coming up of Appsterdam over the past year. We also discussed the iOS and Mac app stores, some things we'd like to see in iOS7 and the Mac 10.9 APIs.

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]]> Tue, 18 Dec 2012 11:51:21 +0800 0E097757-2310-4BAA-B8C4-206E1E6EF846 no 1:34:59 #76: Anne Halsall http://nsbrief.com/76-anne-halsall Anne Halsall (@annekate) is a Product Designer at Quora. She's helped design and build the Quora app available in the iTunes App Store. In this episode, we talk about hybrid apps, how they are still relevant in today's native app landscape, and some techniques for making your hybrid apps not feel like hybrid apps.

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]]> Tue, 11 Dec 2012 02:35:53 +0800 E2027D40-0479-4453-997C-B5AB5F9CCD60 no 1:09:03 #75: Mark Pospesel http://nsbrief.com/75-mark-pospesel Mark Pospesel (@mpospesel) is a Mobile Architect at Y Media Labs. Mark has recently been presenting at events such as Cocoaconf about 3D animations.In this episode, we discuss 3D animations with Core Animation.

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]]> Tue, 04 Dec 2012 02:33:30 +0800 DDF08501-5FF7-4F9E-8A2B-6A5498CFA1D4 no 1:18:06 #74: Collin Donnell http://nsbrief.com/74-collin-donnell Collin Donnell (@collindonnell) is the lead developer at Albina Development, based in Portland, Oregon. Collin has recently built and shipped a well received Pinboard iPhone client called Pinbook. In this episodes, we discuss some of the design and engineering challenges encountered during the making of this app.

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]]> Mon, 26 Nov 2012 02:49:51 +0800 F11499D1-79A1-4ABB-A62F-303809D84851 no 1:07:44 #73: Bill Dudney http://nsbrief.com/73-bill-dudney Bill Dudney (@bdudney) is an independent iOS developer, author and former Apple Developer Evangelist. Saul catches up with Bill after a long day of teaching a Pragmatic Studio class to chat about Bill's new iOS Developer Book, and other awesomeness.

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]]> Tue, 20 Nov 2012 02:00:24 +0800 A1C4C439-3318-4893-9B85-B32FF096B0A5 no 1:27:17 #72: Matt Aimonetti http://nsbrief.com/72-matt-aimonetti Matt Aimonett (@merbist) is a Ruby developer. He's worked on Rails, Merb and many other gems and code important to the Ruby Community. He's also a MacRuby Core Team member and has experience with Objective C. In this episode, we chat about the differences and similarities between Ruby and Objective C and their communities.

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]]> Tue, 13 Nov 2012 01:25:17 +0800 37146D25-18C6-4534-B41C-9FA77FF488EF no 1:10:31 #71: Gus Mueller http://nsbrief.com/71-gus-mueller Gus Mueller (@ccgus) is the man behind Flying Meat, makers of popular Mac applications such Acorn and Voodoo Pad. Flying Meat is also responsible for bringing a database to the iPhone OS with FMDB in the early days of iPhone programming.

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]]> Tue, 06 Nov 2012 02:55:52 +0800 BC1D1764-5F99-442E-A51C-8E36A4D6E9C7 no 1:03:00 #70: Jiva Devoe http://nsbrief.com/70-jiva-devoe Jiva Devoe (@jivadevoe) is the Chief Software Craftsman at Random Ideas. Jiva has developed an alternative to iCloud Core Data Syncing called Wasabi Sync.


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between.

]]> Tue, 30 Oct 2012 00:36:41 +0800 4A886CCE-C5EC-4139-998D-62E57171317C no 1:03:57 #69: Rob Rhyne http://nsbrief.com/69-rob-rhyne
Rob Rhyne (@capttaco) is a Co-Founder of MartianCraft, a botique iOS Development shop. Rob recently launched a photo app for iPhone called Pris. Saul and Rob, mostly Rob, talk about some of the details to push AVFoundation to the limit. We also discuss what Rob has learned about running your indie business.


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]]> Tue, 23 Oct 2012 02:02:28 +0800 8F8E058D-158D-45FC-B8C9-8B9199153EC8 no 1:25:14 #68: The Dark Sky Team http://nsbrief.com/68-the-dark-sky-team
Jack Turner and Adam Grossman (@darkskyapp) are the developers behind the hyperlocal weather forecasting app, Dark Sky. In this episode, we chat about how to predict and render hyper local weather forecasts.


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]]> Tue, 16 Oct 2012 00:55:15 +0800 1BD318BE-941B-45C9-8345-48CA73538694 no 1:09:11 #67: Daniel Jalkut http://nsbrief.com/67-daniel-jalkut Daniel Jalkut (@danielpunkass) is the developer of the popular Mac blogging app, MarsEdit. Daniel is also a one man indie Mac business, and he shares with us some of his insights about acquiring an app, and running a business all by yourself.


Events
MacTech - Los Angeles, CA - October 17-19 - mactech.com
CocoaConf - Portland, OR - Oct 26-27 - cocoaconf.com


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]]> Mon, 08 Oct 2012 23:59:30 +0800 7797ED46-7786-45D3-810F-9D0A440AA73F no 1:15:07 #66: Nathan Eror http://nsbrief.com/66-nathan-eror Nathan Eror (@neror) is an independent iOS developer. Original setting out to write games, he has learned ways to make himself a more efficient developer by maximizing his developer toolset.

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freetimestudios.com
Working Efficiently with Xcode
Dave Thomas' Code Kata

http://hbr.org/2006/10/sleep-deficit-the-performance-killer/
engine2diet.com
forksoverknives.com
tastyleavesandtwigs.com

]]> Mon, 01 Oct 2012 23:36:07 +0800 6444C10A-2B2E-424E-90D6-19C2E655683A no 1:21:06 #65: Danielle Reubenstein http://nsbrief.com/65-danielle-reubenstein Danielle Reubenstein (@dspace) is the Creative Officer at Xcellent Creations, a mobile application developer based in Denver, Colorado. Danielle gave a well received talk at 360idev; Saul and Danielle chatted about her creative process, and how developers can work better with designers.

Xcellent Creations ]]> Mon, 24 Sep 2012 14:28:05 +0800 651427FE-2499-4E29-9332-2CC914071946 no 53:19 #64: Joe Cieplinski http://nsbrief.com/64-joe-cieplinski Joe Cieplinski (@jcieplinski) is the design guy at Bombing Brain Interactive. While at 360idev in Denver, we chatted with Joe about his conference presentation, The Race to the Bottom, and how to avoid it. We chat about pricing your apps in the app store, and alternatives to the freemium model that is so pervasive in the AppStore these days.

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]]> Tue, 18 Sep 2012 00:50:58 +0800 A82F736C-CBBE-49B1-B50F-9C007997FDA9 no 1:11:30 #63: Live at 360idev 2012 http://nsbrief.com/63-live-at-360idev-2012 While at the 360idev Developer Conference in Denver, Colorado, I decided to hold a last minute lunch session and talk to a few people. In this episode, we chat with Andres Linde and Micheal Simmons about HockeyApp, Collin Donnell about Developer productivity and I debate Stephen Vanterpool about the pros and cons of Singletons.

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Links
Things
Omnifocus
TaskPaper
The Hit List

Singletons

]]> Fri, 14 Sep 2012 00:06:11 +0800 957F7A20-C999-46FA-9DC9-36078EA0DEEC no 49:44 #62: Mark Aufflick http://nsbrief.com/62-mark-aufflick Mark Aufflick (@markaufflick) is an indie Cocoa developer writing Mac and iOS apps. Mark is also one of the organizers of SwipeConf, Australia's first iOS Developer conference. In this episode, we talk about the topic most frequently asked of Mark at his regular Cocoaheads meeting: How do I quit my job and become an independent contractor.

Open Source Spotlight

KSReachability 

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ICL
Commodore Vic 20
Thoughtworks
odesk
Billings
Cocoa Programming for Mac OS X
OpenACS

Phillip Greenspun - Database Driven Websites

Cartoon Art Museum

Alan Kay - Smalltalk
Xero

 

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]]> Tue, 04 Sep 2012 00:06:22 +0800 http://nsbrief.com/62-mark-aufflick no 49:44 #61: Chris Forsythe http://nsbrief.com/61-chris-forsythe Chris Forsythe (@the_tick) is the CEO of Growl, the open source Mac Desktop notification system. In this episode, we talk about the history of growl, and the upcoming release and what it means with Mac OS X Mountain Lion.

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Adium

Colloquy

FTPeel 1.0 Blog Post Announcement

 

GNTP

Growl + Java

 

Growl Homepage

Growl Developer Docs

 

irc.freenode.com - #growl

growl-development Google Group

 

Prowl

 

Capster

 

Bark

Hiss 

Mountain Growl

 

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]]> Mon, 27 Aug 2012 21:00:00 +0800 http://nsbrief.com/61-chris-forsythe no 1:05:06 #60: Mattt Thompson http://nsbrief.com/60-mattt-thompson Mattt Thompson (@mattt) is a prolific iOS and Ruby developer. You may know him from his work with AFNetworking, however he is also the mastermind behind NSHipster, and other awesome cocoa blogs and tools. In this episode, we discuss Heroku for iOS apps, and how to be productive with your developer projects.

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Rack Core Data
Reason Audio
Sinatra 
AFIncrementalStore
NSIncrementalStore
- Apple Documentation
- NSHipster Post
NSAtomicStore
- Apple Documentation
AFNetworking
Cocoapods 
MagicalRecord 
Induction
Mesmerize 

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]]> Tue, 21 Aug 2012 04:56:00 +0800 http://nsbrief.com/60-mattt-thompson no 52:12 #59: Mark Dalrymple http://nsbrief.com/59-mark-dalrymple Mark Dalrymple (@borkware) is an instructor at the Big Nerd Ranch, an author, and all around funny guy. In this episode, we discuss his awesome book, Advanced Mac OSX Programming, The Big Nerd Ranch Guide and other nerd topics.

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Advanced Mac OSX Programming, The Big Nerd Ranch GuideThe Big Nerd Ranch
- Blog
- Advanced Mac OSX Programming Class

 

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]]> Tue, 14 Aug 2012 05:26:00 +0800 http://nsbrief.com/59-mark-dalrymple no 1:19:16 #58: Mike Ash http://nsbrief.com/58-mike-ash Mike Ash (@mikeash) regularly writes about Cocoa related topics on his popular blog, NSBlog. In this episode, we talk about various things related to Mac, iPhone and Cocoa development. Eventually, we get to the topic of air gliders as a hobby.

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Mac Quadra 610

Gywnn Raskind
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]]> Wed, 08 Aug 2012 22:24:00 +0800 http://nsbrief.com/58-mike-ash no 45:46 #57: StuffMC http://nsbrief.com/57-stuffmc Manuel Carrasco Molina (@StuffMC) is a podcaster and Cocoa developer. He is also organizing a new European Cocoa confernece, ObjCGN in September 2012. In this episode, we discuss his experiences with Mac app sandboxing.

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Disk Alarm

-- On the App Store

 

TaoEffect - Espionage - Mac App Store Failure

Text Expander moving out of the Mac App Store - on MacStories

 

Apple Sandboxing Docs

 

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]]> Mon, 30 Jul 2012 21:00:00 +0800 http://nsbrief.com/57-stuffmc-49142 no 1:11:50 #56: Jonathan Blocksom http://nsbrief.com/56-jonathan-blocksom Jonathan Blocksom (@jblocksom) is the Managing Director of the Big Nerd Ranch in Washington DC. He has experience implementing Computer Vision on iOS, and teaches the Advanced iOS programming class for the Big Nerd Ranch. After a great time learning and teaching at CocoaConf in Herndon, VA, Saul and Jonathan talk about OpenGL.

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OpenGLES 2.0 <- Contains the rendering pipeline diagrams discussed
Big Nerd Ranch 

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]]> Mon, 23 Jul 2012 21:01:00 +0800 http://nsbrief.com/56-jonathan-blocksom no 1:10:14 #55: Chris Ross http://nsbrief.com/55-chris-ross Chris Ross (@darkrock) is the founder of Hidden Memory, an iOS development firm based in Brighton, UK. He's also recently written and released a handy developer tool called Resource Helper.

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]]> Mon, 16 Jul 2012 21:52:00 +0800 http://nsbrief.com/55-chris-ross no 1:19:50 #54: Dom Sagolla http://nsbrief.com/54-dom-sagolla Dom Sagolla (@dom) was present when Twitter was born, as a Quality Assurance tester. These days, Dom works on Product Development at Chaotic Moon. In his spare time, he also helps coordinate iOSDevCamp, the funnest iOS Developer hackathon event, EVAR. Dom is 1337.

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iOSDevCamp
Accelerando
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TouchCode
Get Around
MIT Media Lab

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]]> Mon, 09 Jul 2012 21:00:00 +0800 http://nsbrief.com/54-dom-sagolla no 55:14 #53: WWDC 2012 http://nsbrief.com/53-wwdc-2012 WWDC is the event of the year for all Cocoa, Mac and iOS developers. In this episode, a few developers share with me some of the projects and products on which they've been working.

EDITORIAL NOTE: The audio quality of this episode is not how we like to regularly release episodes. However, we wanted to publish these interviews due to the content contained in each one.

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Interview with Salman Sajid

@sajidcreative
Sohail Ahmed - @idStar
TouchType iPad Case 

Interview with Mike Katz

@TheMikeKatz
Kinvey

Interview with Steve Streeting

@stevestreeting
Orge 3d
SourceTree
GitX
BrotherBard GitX
Git
Mercurial
Mac App Store: Sandboxing Update
Atlassian
Developer Jobs at Atlassian

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]]> Mon, 02 Jul 2012 21:00:00 +0800 http://nsbrief.com/53-wwdc-2012 no 50:40 #52: Paul Darcey http://nsbrief.com/52-paul-darcey Paul Darcey (@pauldarcey) is the new CEO of Appsterdam. In this episode, we chat about how he got involved in Appsterdam, and what the future of Appsterdam holds for App Makers worldwide.

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iDeveloperLive
@idevelopertv

Core Intuition
@coreint

Edge Cases
@edgecasesshow

Dispatch Source
@dispatchsource 

Official Appsterdam Homepage

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]]> Mon, 25 Jun 2012 21:00:00 +0800 http://nsbrief.com/52-paul-darcey no 42:38 #51: Jamiee Newberry http://nsbrief.com/51-jamiee-newberry Jaimee Newberry (@jaimeejaimee) is a User Exerience Designer at Black Pixel. In a chance meeting on the way home from WWDC, Saul and Jaimee chat on a plane about #wwdcgirls.

Links

@invisiblepixels
@janeylicious
wwdcgirls@gmail.com
An Open Letter to Women in Tech

 

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]]> Mon, 18 Jun 2012 21:00:00 +0800 http://nsbrief.com/51-jamiee-newberry no 48:40 #50: Pitch Perfect http://nsbrief.com/50-pitch-perfect Erica Sadun (@ericasadun) and Steve Sande (@stevensande) blog about everything related to Apple at TUAW, including developer apps. Pitch Perfect is their new book written to help developers (of any platform) craft better review pitches to blogging sites for review.

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]]> Fri, 08 Jun 2012 21:00:00 +0800 http://nsbrief.com/50-pitch-perfect no 1:13:26 #49: Daniel Pasco http://nsbrief.com/49-daniel-pasco Daniel Pasco (@dlpasco) is the CEO at Black Pixel, a secret band of iOS and Mac Development ninja assassins. In this episode, Saul chats with Daniel about being a Ninja Assassin, a Rocket Scientist, a Musician and occasionally, a software Developer. We also chat about Black Pixel's recent software acquisitions, releases and other random stuff that came up.

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Versions

NetNewswire
Kaleidoscope
Andy Finnel - Contracting Indie Fever - C4

Mule Radio
- App Link

iCloud Core Data - repo on Github
iDeveloperTV sessions

Treadmill Desk - Your Desk Job is Killing You - Video Blog Post

MUD

John Gruber - Theory of Design

]]> Mon, 04 Jun 2012 21:00:00 +0800 http://nsbrief.com/49-daniel-pasco no 1:05:27 #48: Justin Miller http://nsbrief.com/48-justin-miller Justin Miller (@incanus77) hacks on mapping components for Mac and iOS apps at Development Seed. In this episode, we chat with Justin about his most recent project, MapBox, a free MapKit replacement for your iOS apps, as well as other free mapping tools for use from the awesome guys at Development Seed.

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Links

iDeveloper Live Episode 53 - Our Followup on RubyMotion

Till Mill

OpenStreet Map

slate.com

Chicago Tribune

White House

Four Square

 

Mapresent

UCOnn MAGIC
Google Mars

 

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]]> Tue, 29 May 2012 21:00:00 +0800 http://nsbrief.com/48-justin-miller no 48:19 #47: Drew McCormack http://nsbrief.com/47-drew-mccormack Drew McCormack (@drewmccormack) is the Founder and Lead developer of The Mental Faculty, a small, independent software developer based in The Netherlands. Drew's experience as an academic computing researcher is invaluable for learning the pros and cons to parallelizing your apps. In this episode, we discuss parallel programming as it relates to Mac and iOS applications.

Links

The Mental Faculty
iDeveloperTV Video Courses
GCD Documentation
SETI@Home 
Amdahl's Law
XPC Services 

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]]> Tue, 22 May 2012 03:36:45 +0800 http://nsbrief.com/47-drew-mccormack no 49:14 #46: Kevin Hoctor http://nsbrief.com/46-kevin-hoctor Kevin Hoctor (@kevinhoctor) is the owner of No Thirst Software, developers of Debt Quencher and the popular finance management application, MoneyWell for Mac and iOS. In this episode, we talk to the wise Hoctor about making mistakes in your business.

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CocoaFusion
Entrepreneurial Seduction

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]]> Mon, 14 May 2012 21:00:00 +0800 http://nsbrief.com/46-kevin-hoctor no 1:17:39 #45: Laurent Sansonetti http://nsbrief.com/45-laurent-sansonetti Laurent Sansonetti (@lrz) is the original creator of MacRuby, and former Apple Engineer. He has recently moved back to his home in Belgium, and has made a splash in the Cocoa development community with his recent release of RubyMotion, which brings the Ruby environment to the iOS platform. In this episode, we discuss the MacRuby project, and are introduced to RubyMotion.

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MacRuby
RubyMotion
HipByte
LLVM

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]]> Mon, 07 May 2012 21:00:00 +0800 http://nsbrief.com/45-laurent-sansonetti no 1:01:00 #44: Allen Ding http://nsbrief.com/44-allen-ding-65330 Allen Ding (@alding) is the original author of Kiwi, a popular open source testing framework for iOS. During his European tour, Saul arraigned to meet Allen in Amsterdam for a chat on the origins of Kiwi, and where it's going.

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Kiwi
rspec
Test Driving iOS Development with Kiwi by Daniel Steinburg 
Skinny Controllers, Fat Models 
Egeniq 

]]> Mon, 30 Apr 2012 21:00:18 +0800 6AB6C539-B49E-4338-8052-1C9456186275 no 50:32 #43: Ben Schierman http://nsbrief.com/43-ben-schierman Ben Scheirman (@subdigital) is a Rails and iOS developer who's recently made a splash with his new video screencasts for Mac and iOS Developers, NSScreencast. 

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NSScreencast.com
railscasts.com
peepcode.com
destroyallsoftware.com
appkickstand.com
giggletouch.com
@nsscreencast
Reflection

]]> Mon, 23 Apr 2012 21:00:56 +0800 7F92D47C-9A53-478E-AB8C-8EEDE807702F no 42:33 #42: David Kinney http://nsbrief.com/42-david-kinney David Kinney (@dlkinney) is the lead orgnaizer of SecondConf, a small confernece aimed at inspiring independent developers. David is also an independent consultant and, in this episode, we dicuss OpenCL development for the Mac.

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Show Notes

OpenCL Web Site
OpenCL on Wikipedia
Radix Sort
Cocoaheads Chicago
WWDC 2011 - 401 What's New in OpenCL
Sunset Lake Software
Programming Massivley Parrallel Processors with CUDA
NVIDIA community - CUDA
WindyCity Go

]]> Mon, 16 Apr 2012 21:00:36 +0800 2E88A84E-69AC-4D92-A10A-C3FA29F3536B no 55:04 #41: Jen Gordon http://nsbrief.com/41-jen-gordon Jen Gordon (@itsjengordon) is a designer and marketer who started her own business called Tapptics. Tapptics provides instruction for developers who want to design and implement custom artwork without the help of a designer. In this episode, we talk about how she started her business, and how Tapptics can help indie developers on a budget design great looking apps.

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Pixelmator

PaintCode

Opacity

]]> Mon, 09 Apr 2012 21:00:05 +0800 2A4E1EE8-B5CD-4FEA-BEA8-55AF767B8EE5 no 1:01:53 #40: Graham Lee http://nsbrief.com/40-graham-lee Graham Lee (@iamleeg) is the author of Secure Mac Programming. However, he is also an advocate of Test Driven Development for iOS and Mac developers. In this episode, we discuss some of the principles of testing while still being pragmatic about testing.

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Test Driven iOS Development

]]> Mon, 02 Apr 2012 21:00:48 +0800 22FB3269-B6DE-4CBC-A478-351F049E1653 no 1:13:28 #39: Colin Wheeler http://nsbrief.com/39-colin-wheeler Colin Wheeler (@CocoaSamurai) is a Cocoa and iOS developer and runs his local Cocoaheads and NSCoderNights in Des Moines, Iowa. He recently gave a presentation on alternative UI frameworks for Mac Application Development, and we discuss them in detail.

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Xcode 4 Keyboard Shortcuts
Cameleon Project
TwUI 

]]> Tue, 27 Mar 2012 21:00:05 +0800 0AB7DD2B-50E2-4E61-943A-848A9BFC5FB6 no 1:05:00 #38: Jay Graves http://nsbrief.com/38-jay-graves Jay Graves (@skabber) is the CTO at Double Encore, Inc, an iOS (and Android) consulting agency based in Denver, Colorado. Part of being a consulting agency with large and demanding clients, Double Encore has to operate differently than other indie consulting shops. In this episode, we take a look at some of the challenges Double Encore has faced, and how they solved them.

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Slides from Jay's Talk at 360idev
Double Encore

Jobs at Double Encore - jobs@doubleencore.com
Vending Machine

TeamCity

Bamboo

Jenkins

Testflight

HockeyApp

Major League Soccer App

Denver Art Museum App

DETweetComposeViewController

 

 

]]> Mon, 19 Mar 2012 21:00:19 +0800 BF95DC03-0573-42A2-89D8-F4BDFFBDB084 no 50:34 #37: Josh Abernathy http://nsbrief.com/37-josh-abernathy Josh Abernathy (@joshaber) is a githubber working on the Github for Mac client. We discuss the technical limitations of AppKit when it comes to Core Animations.

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Typo - This Developer's Life
Twui
Cameleon
Github for Mac

]]> Wed, 14 Mar 2012 21:00:46 +0800 DE1FE971-A275-4C12-B3D8-813418DE6BC5 no 45:20 #36: Jacob Gorban http://nsbrief.com/36-jacob-gorban Jacob Gorban (@apparentsoft) is the CEO of Apparent Software, an independant Mac software business based in Israel. We discuss how Apparent Software was able to go from a part time hobby to a business large enough to allow him to go full time doing the work he loves.

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mac-sb mailing list

Selling Your App to Another Developer by Brent Simmons

Daniel Jalkut - Software Product Acquisition (from C4[1])

http://blog.apparentsoft.com/imageframer/33/microisv-analysis-are-you-a-micro-monster-or-a-small-fry/

Getting Real by 37Signals

 

 

]]> Mon, 05 Mar 2012 22:00:05 +0800 EFE7F839-652A-4FA9-A06B-29A39549A4EA no 56:54 #35: Kendall Gelner http://nsbrief.com/35-kendall-gelner Kendall Gelner (@kendaldevdiary) recently gave a talk on advanced debugging tips and tricks at the local Boulder iOS developer's group. Saul caught up with Kendall after the meetup to chat about some of the highlights of this difficult topic.

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]]> Mon, 20 Feb 2012 22:00:43 +0800 358033D4-892D-4FA9-8C4F-361EBC97A94A no 42:57 #34: Brent Simmons http://nsbrief.com/34-brent-simmons Brent Simmons (@brentsimmons) is the godfather of Mac indie software developers. Remember to kiss his pinky ring when you meet him at a conference. In this brief, Saul discusses some of the details of indie life and business at the recent 360|Macdev Conference in Denver, Colorado.

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Inessential.com
NetNewsWire Lite, favicons, and the non-standard source list

]]> Mon, 13 Feb 2012 22:00:08 +0800 3EF187AE-D85E-4A86-878D-D77CE836B12B no 59:06 #33: Chris Adamson http://nsbrief.com/33-chris-adamson Chris Adamson (@invalidname) takes us on a journey through foundations of analog and digital audio. We discuss Core Audio, AVFoundation and nearly everything to do with audio development on iOS and the Mac.

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Subfurther
Learning Core Audio
IOS SDK Development 

]]> Mon, 06 Feb 2012 22:00:31 +0800 BC6F6360-D71C-4794-8572-28BCEBC36EC3 no 1:11:53 #32: Tom Harrington http://nsbrief.com/32-tom-harrington Tom Harrington (@atomicbird) joins Saul before the local Cocoaheads meeting to discuss several questions around Core Data on stackoverflow.com.

]]> Fri, 27 Jan 2012 22:00:53 +0800 0E35E1FF-45D4-4D5B-8679-BFEC5896EA2E no 44:18 #31: Chad Sellers http://nsbrief.com/31-chad-sellers Chad Sellers (@c_had) is the owner of Useful Fruit Software, cultivator of the fine mac and iPad note taking app, Pear Note. In today's show, we talk about the fundamentals of CoreText, and how to use it in your iOS app.

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MDevCon
NSConference

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CoreTextHyperLinkView

]]> Fri, 20 Jan 2012 22:00:36 +0800 E3ED3406-5DBF-4F39-BBDC-A5A26C192866 no 49:56 #30: Rich Warren http://nsbrief.com/30-rich-warren Rich Warren (@rikiwarren) is the chief Scientist at Freelance Mad Science Labs as a contract iOS Developer. He has also written several apps in the app store, and has written several articles for MacTech Magazine. Rich is also the author of Creating iOS 5 Apps: Design and Development, and he joins Saul for a chat on iCloud.

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MKiCloudSync
Creating iOS5 Apps: Design and Development on Amazon
Freelance Mad Science Labs
Syncing Multiple Core Data Documents to iCloud

 

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]]> Fri, 13 Jan 2012 22:00:22 +0800 2D782BC6-EF0A-4EFB-9EE6-9BD74CCAE3C2 no 1:15:30 #29: Anthony Heron http://nsbrief.com/29-anthony-heron WWDC will be here before you know it. Now, there's an awesome little web service that will send you an SMS Message letting you know when tickets are available. WWDC Alerts is the brainchild of Anthony Herron and Aaron Wardle

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Twilio
Heroku
WWDC Alerts
@anthonyherron
@aaronwardle
@wwdcalerts

 

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]]> Thu, 05 Jan 2012 22:00:55 +0800 DA63777F-E110-437D-8596-D7524A5CB18B no 33:28 #28: CocoaConf Speaker Panel http://nsbrief.com/28-the-cocoaconf-speaker-panel Cocoaconf is an intimate event for new and experienced Cocoa developers. In this episode, we join the Speaker Panel session held on the second day of the conference in Raleigh, NC 2011.

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  • Chris Adamson
  • Jeff Bigus
  • Bill Dudney
  • Chris Judd
  • Saul Mora
  • Josh Smith

 

]]> Tue, 27 Dec 2011 22:00:23 +0800 27B752C5-E974-40C2-AF42-60E635D34B94 no 1:17:22 #27: Jonathan Penn http://nsbrief.com/27-jonathan-penn Jonathan Penn (@jonathanpenn) is the auther of the cocoa blog cocoamanifest.net. He's a part time ruby developer and part time iOS developer. In this episode, we talked after Cocoaconf about the dubious topic of Metaprogramming, and wonder how we can inform and educate about a topic that is so mysterious, yet so powerful.

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Open Source Spotlight

DETweetComposeViewController

Links

Ruby 2.0 - Article from Inside Ruby
Kiwi - unit testing
Glen Vandenburg "Real Software Engineering" Lone Star Rubyconf 2010

 

]]> Thu, 15 Dec 2011 22:00:54 +0800 28988843-3B8A-4D7F-9A09-345CB592A64A no 54:20 #26: Martin Pilkington http://nsbrief.com/26-martin-pilkington Martin Pilkington (@pilky) is the owner and lead developer of MCubed Software based in England. MCubed develops the popular Mac desktop client for Lighthouse, Lighthouse Keeper. In this episode, we discuss Martin's process for taking an idea from nothing to a full product.

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]]> Sun, 04 Dec 2011 22:00:19 +0800 4CBC821E-D28F-43FA-9686-B705CDDE4F24 no 53:48 #25: Ray Wenderlich http://nsbrief.com/25-ray-wenderlich Ray Wenderlich (@raywenderlich) is an indy iOS developer, and co-author of the book 'Learning Cocos2d'. Ray, in conjunction with a team of other indy developers, regular writes for his iOS tutorial site, http://www.raywenderlich.com, and has recently self published a new ebook iOS5 by Tutorials.

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Cocos2d
Cocos3d
Tiled
Particle Designer
Borderlands
cocos2d-X - C++
cocos2d android
Learning Cocos2d on Amazon

]]> Sat, 26 Nov 2011 22:00:01 +0800 80D3F714-181B-4154-9350-A3A2439EE3F8 no 50:14 #24: Scotty http://nsbrief.com/24-scotty Steve "Scotty" Scott (@macdevnet) is a mac podcasting legend. On a recent visit to the MacTech conference in LA, I discussed how Scotty got his foot in the door as a mac developer to become the podcasting and videocasting giant he is today!

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Open Source Spotlight

PSStackedView

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CocoaConf, Raleigh, NC, Dec 1-3
MacTech
iDeveloperTV

]]> Mon, 14 Nov 2011 22:00:22 +0800 17BFF032-42C0-4A76-8FE5-7FBC766FE2CC no 48:54 #23: Eloy Duran http://nsbrief.com/23-eloy-duran Eloy Duran recently gave a talk about MacRuby for SecondConf 2011 in Chicago. Eloy is a MacRuby core team member and consultant at Fingertips in The Nederlands. Saul and Eloy discussed the MacRuby project, as well as Eloy's new cocoa source dependency manager, CocoaPods.

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@alloy 
SecondConf
MacRuby
MacRuby Source
MacRuby Mailing List
ControlTower
Sinatra
CocoaPods

]]> Mon, 17 Oct 2011 21:00:46 +0800 2C7BD77F-3C38-4492-80F8-B277B3934A69 no 1:01:57 #22: Andreas Linde http://nsbrief.com/22-andres-linde Developing mobile apps is tough when you need to get them out to beta testers. HockeyApp makes it easy to get vital information about your app once it enters the world of beta testing. In this episode, Andreas Linde tells us about HockeyApp and QuinceyKit. We also talk to Kirby Turner about how to share code between your Mac and iOS projects without duplicating effort.

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HockeyApp

HockeyKit
QuinceyKit

Andres Linde on Twitter: therealkerni

Kirby Turner on Twitter: kirbyt

White Peak Software
Learn iPad Programming

]]> Tue, 04 Oct 2011 21:00:08 +0800 F344B647-1A97-4998-B7F2-13B5474F986E no 48:12 #21: Mobile Gaming at 360idev http://nsbrief.com/21-mobile-gaming-at-360idev 360idev is the largest and best indie iOS developer conference. I had a chance to talk to David Whatley from Simutronics, Markus Nigrin and Bill and Andrew Dudney about their experiences and perceptions on the mobile game development industry.

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@nsxdavid
 Simutronics 

@markusn
http://pocketcyclone.com/ 

@bdudney
@adudney 

 

]]> Fri, 23 Sep 2011 21:00:40 +0800 0FF66D33-CCC7-4470-9D85-01277A8CCBAE no 35:17 #20: Marc Edwards http://nsbrief.com/20-marc-edwards The last in the series of interviews from WWDC 2011, we chat with Marc Edwards from Bjango based in Melborne, Austrailia. Marc Edwards is the Lead Designer at Bjango making awesome Mac and iOS apps for your enjoyment.

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http://ocmock.org
OCMock repo on github
Iterate Podcast
Iterate on iTunes
SwipeConf

]]> Fri, 09 Sep 2011 21:00:10 +0800 FB0F70BB-5E46-4754-B66A-2F0EC2B3CA49 no 23:06 #19: Brandon Alexander http://nsbrief.com/19-brandon-alexander The Objective C runtime can be a strange and mysterious place. Brandon Alexander (@whilethis) takes us through the landscape to help make the Objective C Runtime a little less scary.
 
 
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]]> Sat, 03 Sep 2011 21:00:36 +0800 01A21F2C-EF66-4F0A-804C-04D49071045A no 58:44 #18: Joe Michels http://nsbrief.com/18-joe-michels SoftwareOps makes personal data security applications such as My Eyes Only and Aerochive. Joe Michels is the ower who left his well paying day job in the early days of the AppStore to start SoftwareOps, a growing and profitable app maker looking to expand. We discuss some of the analysis Joe has done over the years to notice trends in the App Store, and try to examine how SoftwareOps has gone from a single employee to many in 3 years.

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CocoanutKit
SoftwareOps

]]> Thu, 25 Aug 2011 21:00:03 +0800 B14F8BE9-9E89-4DCF-8F10-DDC38CC6399B no 45:02 #17: Jeff Biggus http://nsbrief.com/17-jeff-biggus Jeff Biggus  is the founder of HyperJeff, Inc. and cofounder of Big Stone Phone, producing Unix, Mac, iPhone and iPad apps, and custom in-house software for companies specializing in physics and math software. He has been an independent programming consultant for more than 15 years. Jeff cut his teeth on programming back in the early 1980s on the Apple ][+ and by creating the HyperJeff Network in 1994, a site serving the Mac OS X community since Rhapsody, back in ’99. Get 15% admission to 360idev by using the code NSBRIEFROCKS at checkout!

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NSMapTable
Apple Developer Documentation
NSMapTable Blog post on Cocoa with Love 
NSMapTable entry on cocoadev

Accelerate Framework Documentation for Mac
Accelerate Framework Documentation for iOS

]]> Sat, 13 Aug 2011 21:00:30 +0800 0D54EE24-D553-42D6-82B2-D5A1F2476D65 no 43:38 #16: Mike Berg http://nsbrief.com/16-mike-berg Mike Berg is the President and Lead Designer at We Heart Games, a game development consulting agency. Mike and Saul discuss what makes a good game and why Photoshop sucks.

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Games

Lost Spider
]]> Thu, 04 Aug 2011 21:00:57 +0800 909CB5DA-9C1C-4919-81CC-6BCBD89A6859 no 48:15 #15: Klaas Pieter http://nsbrief.com/15-klaas-pieter Klaas is a Mac, iOS and web developer and is also a Core Committer to the Cappuccino web Framework. In this interview, we discuss his recent contributions to the Cappuccino project as well as what Cocoa developers can expect when they develop for the with with Cappuccino.

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iOSDevcamp
VJ Mixer
 NextiveJson
Klaas Pieter's Blog
 Cappuccino
 Cappcon
 KPUIKit
 NSConf 11 Videos

]]> Sat, 23 Jul 2011 21:00:21 +0800 46EA82F1-DC62-45B8-B66B-3CB0BC8DE4C1 no 27:30 #14: AppCode http://nsbrief.com/post/7329797677 AppCode is the upcoming Objective C IDE by the same company that does Intelli-J for Java and Resharper for C# and Visual Studio. While at WWDC, Saul tracked down the AppCode team for a short discussion on JetBrains’ plans for AppCode and what you can do to help make AppCode the IDE you want to see.

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]]> Wed, 06 Jul 2011 21:00:42 +0800 611BDC54-A6CD-4F96-BB30-3BDB3D3A9EFF no 28:28 #13: The WWDC Keynote Line http://nsbrief.com/post/6829090235/13-the-wwdc-keynote-line WWDC is the biggest event of the year for Mac and iOS Developers. Every year, we wait in line for the wonders that await us at the Keynote. This year, Saul chats with a few people in line. Trying to strike up a conversation with developers is a little easier when we’re all giddy about the keynote!

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]]> Fri, 24 Jun 2011 21:00:08 +0800 A7139DFA-C3AF-4B9D-8A29-B524AEF52C15 no 34:25 #12: Matt Drance http://nsbrief.com/post/5496507587 Matt Drance heads up the iOS consulting firm Bookhouse Software, as well as teaches iOS courses for the pragmatic studio. Many of you may know him from his previous role at Apple as a Developer Evangelist. In this episode, we talk with Matt about his life after Apple and may of the other exciting things going on in the iOS development community.

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]]> Sat, 14 May 2011 21:00:57 +0800 80A09398-0126-4BF8-BDB2-5A21AB7676AC no 56:12 #11: Appsterdam http://nsbrief.com/post/4938151325 Saul talks with Mike Lee about Appsterdam, a new idea to relocate the worlds developers to Amsterdam, Netherlands. This made a big splash on twitter recently, so i decided to go straight to the horse’s mouth, so to speak, and talked to Mike Lee about his big plans for the Mac and iOS developer community called Appsterdam.

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]]> Mon, 25 Apr 2011 21:00:18 +0800 3AF99A66-74CB-4FC1-AC29-B18B5D13D629 no 53:48 #10: Sofa http://nsbrief.com/post/4877592774 Sofa is a 2-time Apple Design Award winning Mac Software development firm based in Amsterdam. Saul chatted with Dirk Stoop and Jonathan Dann about designing great, award winning applications.

Guests

Jonathan Dann
@jonathandann
jonathan@madebysofa.com

Dirk Stoop
@dirkstoop
dirk@madebysofa.com

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]]> Sun, 24 Apr 2011 03:12:46 +0800 CD33AF8B-CA6F-4EA6-9F76-6FECE563842B no 29:00 #9: Cathy Shive http://nsbrief.com/post/4327461320/cathy-shive While at NSConference UK 2011, Saul sits down with Cathy Shive to talk about aspects of design, and that inevitable topic of girl programmers…

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Cathy Shive
KATI
http://www.katidev.com

]]> Tue, 05 Apr 2011 21:00:01 +0800 47673955-CF4C-401B-8725-380CE4929292 no 19:19 #8: Jiva Devoe http://nsbrief.com/post/3261463591 Saul and Jiva talk about the cross platform architecture of the new todo list app, Wasabi, from Random Ideas Software. We also get to discussions on MVC, Blocks and code organization.

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Random Ideas Website

Wasabi Blog Post Announcement

Wasabi on the App Store

Frameworks are teh suck, err, By Wil Shipley - http://www.wilshipley.com/blog/2005/11/frameworks-are-teh-suck-err.html

Events

NSCoderNight

Denver NSCoder, Tuesdays, 6pm at Common Grounds Coffee, Downtown Denver.
Follow @jwilker on twitter for up to date information.

iOS/Cocoaheads Meetups

Denver iPhone User Group
Tuesday Feb 15, 6:30pm at Remy 1660 17th St, Downtown Denver.

CocoaHeads Colorado Springs
Thursday March 10, 7pm at Panera Bread, 7344 North Academy Blvd. Colorado Springs, CO

CocoaHeads Boulder
Tuesday March 8, 7pm at Inspiring Apps, 1045 Pearl Street Boulder, CO

Colorado iPhone Developers Meetup
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Gettin’ to Know Cocoa

Welcome to Gettin’ to Know Cocoa, where we crack open a piece of Cocoa documentation and hopefully let you know about another useful piece of the Cocoa framework.

Today on Gettin’ to Know Cocoa, we’re going to take a look at NSKeyValueCoding and NSKeyValueObserving. If you’re new to Cocoa, you should know that KVC an KVO are integral parts of the Cocoa framework. More often than not, your code can gain a lot of benefits in flexibility  . Both of these are defined as information protocols in Cocoa. Informal protocols contain a collection of method declarations whereby you can optionally implement the methods to change behavior. Let’s start with NSKeyValueCoding…

If you’ve used Key-Value coding in your cocoa apps, you may expect the usual suspects, such as valueForKey:, setValue:forKey:, valueForKeyPath: and setValue:forKeyPath:. Some overlooked methods are dictionaryWithValuesForKeys:, valueForUndefinedKey: and valueValue:forKey:error:.

Let’s take those one at a time.

dictionaryWithValuesForKeys:, and it’s corresponding mutator, setValuesForKeysWithDictionary: allow you to set and retrieve a subset of key-value pairs in your dictionaries in a single method call. The really neat trick with this method is that since NSObjects conform to this informal protocol, you can set and retrieve a subset of your objects property values with a single method call. setValuesForKeysWithDictionary: and dictionaryWithValuesForKeys both work with an instance’s valueForKey: and setValueForKey: method, so there isn’t as much magic as you may expect. But it’s nice to know that this handy shortcut is available for your use in both your Mac and iOS apps.

valudateValue:forKey:error: does what it sounds like, validates the value of the provided key. Since you most likely won’t be calling this method directly, you want to follow the guidelines for this method closely. First, you want to return the proper value whether a property is valid or not. You could, however, always return YES, and correct the value this method. So, it may also be the case that you want to validate more than one value in your class or collection. In this case, you should probably leave this method as the default and instead implement validate<Key>:error:, where <Key> is the name of the property you need to validate. Working with validations like this will rid your code of those unsightly if/else checks. The rules of this method are the same, you want to return YES if the property is valid, or if you’ve corrected it within the validation, and NO if it isn’t. A note on the error parameter, it is your responsibility to return an autoreleased error object, as it is not the sender’s responsibility to release the error. And, yes, there is a validateValue:forKeyPath:error method

valueForUndefinedKey: is invoked by valueForKey: when it is unable to, surprise, find a value for the given key. This method is called prior to giving up to give you one last chance to handle this specific problem yourself, if you need to do so. The default value of this method raises an NSUndefinedKeyException, which is why your apps seem to crash if you query for an undefined key. The way you use this method is to implement it in your subclasses of NSObject.

Moving on to the NSKeyValueObserving protocol, I found it funny that the docs spelled out that KVO is not available for Java applications. Let that be a lesson, don’t write Cocoa apps in Java.  Again, if you’ve done any KeyValue Coding, you’re most likely aware of methods such as addObserver:forKeyPath:options:context:, removeObserver:forKeyPath: and observeValueForKey:ofObject:change:context:. These three methods are at the heart of implementing KVO. Other methods in this protocol include didChangeValueForKey:withSetMutation:usingObjects:, didChange:valuesAtIndexes:forKey:, and the corresponding willChange methods. Remember, if you override a synthesized implementation of a property in your class, and you want to observe value changes, you must call the proper willChange and didChange method before and after you’ve change the value of the property. These two variations are to perform notifications in two specific situations. The first, did/willChangeValueForKey:withSetMutation:usingObjects: is when your property has an unordered relation. And the did/willChange:valuesAtIndexes:forKey: are when you have an ordered relationship. These methods must be used by your property accessor and mutator methods if you want them to maintain KVO compliance.

Again, these protocols are defined on both iOS and Mac since they reside in the Foundation.framework. On the mac, KVC and KVO is especially key since this is the heart of how bindings work…

That’s all we have for today, I’m Saul Mora, founding Panda at Magical Panda Software, and engineer at Double Encore, helping you to get to know Cocoa.

]]> Sat, 12 Feb 2011 22:00:34 +0800 054F5247-40B8-4ABA-A648-E2806412B2DC no 53:28 #7: Erica Sadun http://nsbrief.com/post/3107114830/nsbrief-6-erica-sadun-on-airplay Saul chats with TUAW Blogger Erica Sadun about her work on reverse engineering the AirPlay protocol in the new AppleTV 2. Follow Erica’s nerdy adventures on twitter: @ericasadun.

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Erica’s AirPlay applications

Sites

cocoaobjects.com - CocoaObjects.com is a web site containing a hand-selected listing of all sorts of reusable objects available for Macintosh programmers programming using the standard Cocoa Objective-C APIs.

The entries are maintained by volunteers based on personal discoveries and suggestions made to the@cocoaobjects Twitter account.

idevrecipies.com - iOS developers sometimes look at iPhone and iPad apps and wonder, how did they do that? This blog by Peter Boctor explores and re-creates interesting features and user interfaces of iOS apps.

Events

NSConference UK
March 21th - 24rd
Reading, UK
www.nsconference.com

iPhoneDevCon
April 4-6, 2011
Boston, MA
www.iphonedevcon.com

]]> Fri, 04 Feb 2011 22:00:33 +0800 67728527-604F-4DDA-9CD2-1AEBD7A7257A no 28:45 #6: Kirby Turner http://nsbrief.com/post/3107116117/nsbrief-7-kirby-turner Topic

Saul and Kirby discuss support in an indie dev shop and the main tool Kirby uses to keep his business running like a well oiled machine.

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Tools:
FogBugz - http://www.fogcreek.com/fogbugz/
Tickets - http://manicwave.com/products/tickets
Lighthouse - http://www.lighthouseapp.com
Lighthouse Keeper - http://www.mcubedsw.com/software/lighthousekeeper
Tender - http://www.tenderapp.com

Guest

Kirby Turner
White Peak Software
http://www.whitepeaksoftware.com

Hey Peanut - iTunes
LaborMate - iTunes

Open Source Spotlight

NSLogger

https://github.com/fpillet/NSLogger

NSLogger is a high perfomance logging utility which displays traces emitted by client applications running on Mac OS X or iOS (iPhone OS). It replaces your usual NSLog()-based traces and provides powerful additions like display filtering, image and binary logging, traces buffering, timing information, etc.

Upcoming Conferences

ESC Silicon Valley

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May 2-5, 2011

San Jose, CA

MacWorld Mobile iOS
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February 17, 2011
Barcelona, Spain

iPhoneDevCon

http://www.iphonedevcon.com

April 4-6, 2011

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Voices That Matter
http://iphonespring2011.crowdvine.com/
April 9-10, 2011
Seattle, WA

CodeConf
http://www.codeconf.com
April 9-10, 2011
San Francisco, CA

]]> Thu, 03 Feb 2011 21:00:38 +0800 BE90890A-CED3-45D2-8DB1-5B885D478130 no 50:55 #5: 360idev Converstations http://nsbrief.com/post/3107108504/nsbrief-5-360idev-conversations In this episode, Saul travels to Austin, TX for 360idev and find the hallway conversations riveting.

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Gettin’ to Know Cocoa - NSDate

NSDate Mac Docs
NSDate iOS Docs
Unicode Date Formatting Reference

Open Source Spotlight - Active Record Fetching for Core Data

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Gettin’ to Know Cocoa - Transcript

Welcome to Getting to Know Cocoa , I’m Saul Mora. On each installment of Getting to Know Cocoa, we’ll peek inside the Developer docs and introduce  a class, Framework, function or feature.

In this edition of Gettin to Know Cocoa, we’ll be talking about NSDate and NSDateFormatter.

The first thing you need to understand about NSDate is that instances are immutable. That is, once they have been initialized, you cannot change the value of that one instance. If oyu need to add or subtract a time interval from an instance, you will be returned with a new instance of an NSDate object. Also, remember that NSDate calculations such as adding time are done with NSTimeIntervals, which are seconds typed as floats.

NSDate is toll free bridged with CFDate, it’s Core Foundation counterpart. This means that the Core Foundation type is interchangeable in function or method calls with the bridged Foundation object. Therefore, in a method where you see an NSDate * parameter, you can pass a CFDateRef, and in a function where you see a CFDateRef parameter, you can pass an NSDate instance (you cast one type to the other to suppress compiler warnings).

To create an NSDate, you have a couple of options. First, you can create a date that reflects the date and time that code is run. Simply call [NSDate date]. To create a date representing a particular time interval, you can use [NSDate dateWithTimeIntervalSinceReferenceDate:].  The reference date is 12:00am January 1, 2001. Also available is [NSDate dateWIthTimeIntervaleSince1970:], which is 12:00am January 1, 1970. You can specify negative time intervals to get NSDates prior to the reference date.

You can add a time interval to a date instance, but the method to do so has changed in iOS 4.0. Use dateByAddingTimeInterval: rather than the deprecated addTimeInterval: method. I am reminded by @pliky on twitter that XCode won’t tell you what’s deprecated in the type ahead prompts.

Sometimes, you’ll want to parse dates from strings, and for that you’ll need to use NSDateFormatter’s dateFromString: method. You can also print out a custom formatted string using the stringFromDate: method. NSDateFormatters follow the unicode standard formatting strings, and I highly recommend that you at least keep a bookmark handy. I’ll include that in the episode notes.

You can also listen for a system wide notification, NSSystemClockDidChangeNotification to make sure your app is aware of when the system time changes. And, if you’re curious, you can also see what the value NSTimeIntervalSince1970 is….it’s 978307200.0…which is the number of seconds between from Jan1 1970 to Jan12001.

You can also compare dates using the compare: method. From this method, you can check the NSComparisonResult return value against NSOrderedSame, NSOrderedDescending or NSOrderedAscending to find out the order of a date. However, if you just want to know which date is later than another, you can use the laterDate: method to get the date that is the later for two dates. There is also an earlierDate: method that will return…the earlierDate…

On the mac, you have access to a couple other creation methods, namely: [NSDate dateWithNaturalLanguageString:] and dateWithString: . The former will let you put in something like “last Tuesday at dinner” or “3pm december 31”. You can also specify a custom dictionary that will help translate other words. However, this method is primarly based on english words, and it’s use is dicouraged in the docs. The dateWithString method lets you specify a date format in the creation method. Usually in iOS apps, I have to create an NSDate category that does this, and you have it for free in the MacOS APIs.

As always, I encourage you to take a few minutes and check out the docs in detail for yourself.

]]> Wed, 02 Feb 2011 20:00:08 +0800 CC431724-357D-44F5-A52C-9B04585F8574 no 28:03 #4: Justin Williams http://nsbrief.com/post/3107095746/nsbrief-4-justin-williams-2 In this episode, Saul corners Justin Williams at the 360idev conference in Austin, TX and discusses the latest AppStore releases from SecondGear Software.

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Upcoming Events
360macDev, Denver, CO
December 10-11
360macdev.com

MacWorldMobile Hong Kong
November 17, 2010
macworldmobile.com

MacWorldMobile Barcelona
February 14-17, 2010
macworldmobile.com

Today’s Open Source Framework Spotlight:
SDWebImage
 http://github.com/rs/SDWebImage

KTDownloadManager
http://github.com/kirbyt/KTDownloadManager

iPhone Image Cache
http://kosmaczewski.net/projects/iphone-image-cache/

Seond Gear Software
http://www.secondgearsoftware.com

Second Gear Aps

 

]]> Tue, 01 Feb 2011 19:00:44 +0800 E1E4354F-EBAB-435A-B868-F0B209B871A9 no 14:53 #3: Dave Wiskus http://nsbrief.com/post/3107089339/nsbreif-3-dave-wiskus In this episode, we talk with Lead Designer and Chief Creative Officer at Double Encore, Inc., an iOS development boutique based in Denver, Colorado. Dave and Saul talk about good and bad elements of design in mobile applications, and how developers can help improve their design skills.

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]]> Tue, 04 Jan 2011 18:00:08 +0800 9EF7AC65-F3A8-4050-890F-9A319269170E Magical Panda Software no 56:29 #2: John Wilker http://nsbrief.com/post/3107075688/nsbrief-2-john-wilker Jade and Saul talk to John Wilker, curator of 360conferences, and the upcoming 360idev in Austin, TX.

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]]> Mon, 04 Oct 2010 16:00:10 +0800 F07723A4-2524-4346-AF48-5BD542712221 no 31:55 #1: Rob Rhyne http://nsbrief.com/post/3106645977/nsbrief-1-rob-rhyne In this episode, Jade and Saul interview Rob Rhyne of MartianCraft and the creator of Briefs.app.

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http://blog.robrhyne.com/post/1043407467/selling-open-source
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NSCoderNights - Phoenix Area NSCoderNight

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