The iDeveloper Podcast

In this episode Scotty shares about his trip to the Swift By Northwest conference in Portland and John shares about his problems sharing.

In this episode, John gets excited about winning the Netflix hack day while Scotty shares about the talks he has been or is about to give at two conferences.

After a couple of weeks apart Scotty and John catch up with what has been going on. John tells of his trip to London, Athens and Moscow while Scotty talks of his upcoming trips to Romania and Portland. This episode has some background noise artefacts.... sorry.

Scotty and John discuss moving to Xcode 10, John's upcoming talk he is giving in Russia and Scotty's continuing journey with Vapor.

Scotty and John discuss the September Apple event, Scotty's trip to iOSDevUK , the server side Swift framework, Vapor and John's upcoming trip to Russia.

Scotty and John discuss the art of good documentation and how they organize their projects. They also discuss if the probable upcoming iOS hardware announcements are likely to cause any new work for the projects they are working on which leads into a discussion on Apple's release cycle. Apologies for Scotty's bad audio in this episode.

Maybe for the first time ever Scotty and John spend the entire show on follow up. John explains how he fixed his disappearing view problem while Scotty reveals his decision on a laptop and shares his experience at the Elixir conference.

This week it is John's turn to lie on the therapy couch as he explains issues he has been having with disappearing views. However, Scotty still needs to get a few things off his chest as he reveals his laptop purchasing dilemma.

After another extended absence, Scotty and John are back. This time they discuss Scotty's dislike of React Native and John becomes Scotty's midlife crisis therapist.

With John still away Scotty talks with Marc Palmer, the developer behind the new open source macOS and iOS framework Flint. John also makes a brief appearance from Amsterdam.

Scotty talks with Drew McCormack, one of the main developers behind the Apple Design Award winning app Agenda.

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

Scotty and John sum up their reactions to the WWDC 2018 keynote and state of the union.

Scotty and John, just like every other Apple developer podcast in the universe this week, discuss their hopes for WWDC 2018.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Scotty & John talk about how they have spent the week since WWDC playing with the new shiny and implementing what they learnt.

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

John and Scotty discuss day 2 at WWDC 2017.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

John and Scotty start the year by sharing their aspirations for 2017 as well as making a prediction or two. They also discuss John's ongoing wrestling with AVFoundation and the difficulties of learning complex frameworks. Scotty also announces his intention to produce an on going diary of his mission to ship some sort of product in 2017.

John and Scotty discuss the new download feature in the Netflix iOS app, old code crashing on MacOS Sierra and the difficulties of making fixes and getting them into the Mac App Store. They also talk about the people benefits vs the technical benefits of conference attendance. John also confesses to building a fake Donald Trump tweet.

John and Scotty discuss Scotty's trip to the DoiOS conference and Appsterdam. They also reflect on John's first year at Netflix and Scotty's Laptop vs Desktop dilema. (Apologies for the poor audio quality)

We have been away for 9 weeks but it is time to say "Hello Again". They talk about handling airport wifi in your apps. The new Apple notebook range. Scotty's recent travels and upcoming conferences. John' s audio set-up and what they have decided to call "The Season of Productivity"

This week John has to own up to missing recording the show as he fell asleep. He also talks about some recent issues he had with using Cocoapods after leaving a project for a year. Scotty talks about his trip to iOSDevUK and totally forgets Richard Turton's name.

This week John and Scotty talk about John's trip to Europe and Scotty's trip to 360iDev. They also discuss Apple's announcement about cleaning up the App Store.

This week John and Scotty talk again about age asking questions about ageism in our industry. They also discuss burnout and if it is related to age any way.

This week John and Scotty talk about becoming a better developer. They use a blog post by Zach McArtor of Martian Craft to guide their conversation.

This week John and Scotty talk about the the problem with having third party code that goes out of date and is no longer maintained.

This week John and Scotty talk about the lack of good sample code that not only demonstrates a framework or technique but how it also fits into the context of well architected full application.