The iDeveloper Podcast

This week John and Scotty talk about about what is like to be an older developer. Are we past it and ready to be put out to pasture of do we have things to offer that no youngster could.

This week John and Scotty talk about adopting new API's. They ask when is it a good time to include them in your app and how many OS versions is to right to support.

This week John and Scotty talk about all that's gone on during WWDC week including Altconf, The Talk Show and a gig by The Breakpoints. They even talk about some of the stuff announced by Apple.

It seems we really are back as we crank out another episode after our 15 months break. In this episode John and Scotty discusses MVVM, MVC and Coordinators. Scotty also talks a little about a product he is working on ... now all he has to do is ship.

Scotty and John are back. (Assuming Scotty actually publishes the episode). In this episode the discuss what they have been up to as well as their hopes and expectations for WWDC 2016.

Scotty and John talk about John visit to the film set of the new Steve Jobs bio pick, Photo Kit and developing software in iterations.

Scotty and John discuss Marcus Zarra's blog post "The Dangers of Misinformation" and how software development is different in a post google world

Once again this week it has taken a little longer to get show out than hoped but now it is here we hope you enjoy it. This week we discuss Auto layout UITableViewCells, iOS 8.3 , Xcode 6.3 and Swift 1.2. A new report on Zombie apps where we also discover that weather apps have the lowest percentage of zombies. Scotty also explains why NSConference 7 will be the last NSConference.

Scotty and John talk about the release of Findery 3.1. They discuss how Findery collected analytics to see how people were actually using the app and then used the data they collected to redesign the apps first launch experience. Scotty whoops for joy at auto sizing UITableViewCells in iOS 8 and John shares how he developed the URL embedding experience in Findery.

Scotty and John talk about Xcode 6's XCTest testing framework and using TestFlight.

"Realm is a mobile database: a replacement for SQLite & Core Data Realm can save you thousands of lines of code & weeks of work, and lets you craft amazing new user experiences." Well that's what it says on the website anyway. In this episode Scotty interviews JP and Alexander, two of Realm's developers, to find out what it is really all about.

Scotty and John remember Jordan Breeding who died this week of cancer and look forward to what 2015 might bring.

In this weeks show Scotty talks about his first two weeks working full time with Swift. John talks about releasing Findery 3.0. They might also mention that NSConference 7 tickets are now on sale.

In this weeks show Drew McCormack joins Scotty and John to talk about the 2.0 release of the Ensembles Core Data Sync framework. They also take a quick detour to discuss watch kit.

In this weeks show Scotty and John once again discuss product idea validation. The differences between funded projects and self-funded projects. The new Findery API and Scotty's departure from RemObjects.

In this weeks show Scotty and John mainly discuss some of the processes you should go consider going through before you ever reach for "File | New Project". They also discuss daylight saving, the Giants winning the world series, Tim Cook and great service from the Apple Developer Program..

A long show this week as Scotty and John discuss: Last weeks Apple event. John's problems when the simulator looses it's internet connection. BBEdit leaving the App Store. The inefficiencies of multi-tasking.

Scotty and John wish each other a happy Ada Lovelace day. John talks about the joy of using vector images in Xcode 6. Scotty tells tales from Cingleton which leads them on to talking about the concept of Maximum Viable Product, Prosumer applications and the concept of asking the question "What do people hire my app to do?".

In this show John decides to have another good old bitch about all his problems with iOS 8. Scotty just sits and patiently listens.

John solves his iOS 8 problems but has relationship issues with iTunes Connect. We then go on to talk about Brent Simmons going to Omni in order to "bring in extra money" and ask can anyone actually make money on iOS?

In this weeks show we (Scotty & John) discuss the initial problems with iOS 8 for both users and developers. We also ask is the iPhone 6 too big? Will we see a smaller 6S next year? Will see any new Macs or iPads this year? Scotty also shares his git problems while John talks about some current debate about people baying iPhones just to ship to China. Finally Scotty announces he has left App.net. Once again this week I (Scotty) have had recording problems and whole bunch of crackle appears at around 14 minutes. I am hoping this will never happen again as I have replaced my entire entire recording system since this recording in an attempt to solve the problem.

The problems John had getting a build of Findery ready for iOS 8 and how Google saved the day. The pros and cons of having a dedicated build machine The issue of bloated view controllers inspired by a chapter in a new book "Step By Step iOS Development" Keeping tech publishing viable How that time between major releases can feel like being in the wilderness. Documentation : is it still relevant? Why neither Scotty or John will have a shiny new iPhone this Friday

After another few weeks off Scotty and Jon finally catch up and talk about this weeks Apple event and it's consequences for the community. John tells us about LemonJar, an awesome iOS console log viewer while Scotty describes his new Synology DS414 NAS and how he has gone completely mad and left GitHub. Some how Scotty also managed to screw up his audio hence this weeks title, Sorry about the crackle.

Again it's a little late as I have been really busy. In this episode Scotty and John talk about how to build teams. Should Apple open an engineering office away from Cupertino and if so where. Scotty starts looking at OS X Server and potential cloud hosts for said server. (He would like to hear from people who have tried using it OS X Server or cloud OS X hosting). John shares his first experience of trying to develop an iOS 8 extension and they both talk about the current "can you make money on the app store" debate.

We recorded this one a few weeks ago but it's taken me ages to get round to editing and releasing it. In this episode Scotty talks to John about how his trip to Europe is going and Scotty announces RemObjects new Swift compiler for Android (called Silver) and new Mac IDE (called Fire).

Scotty and John talk how Apple are recruiting lots of indie developers and discuss how the next phase of development for indie developers , now they are designer aware, is to become marketing and sales aware.

Scotty and John talk about Apple's new language Swift. When you should adopt it and what it means for Objective-C. They also talk about the new blogging engine running this site and Scotty brings us up to date on his backup woes with JustCloud.

Scotty and John talk about how good last weeks podcast that was never released was, Scotty's cloud backup problems and the future of ideas.

Scotty and John review WWDC 14 and Altconf and discuss some of the ramifications of the announcements made.

Scotty and John talk about the problems cloud services have being reliable and the fact that nothing in ever actually free. Also with 1 week to go there are the bound to be proven wrong WWDC predictions.

Scotty and John talk about Parse, the Facebook API's, embedding a UICollectionView in a UITableViewCell and the release of the NSConference 6 videos.

Scotty and John talk about John's solution to his UICollectionView problem, Scotty's discovery of geo support in MongoDB, John's new experiment with Parse and the actual, yes really, the actual release of avTag.

Scotty and John talk about the limitations of UICollectionView, NoSQL databases such as MongoDB and Google Analytics for iOS.

Scotty and John talk about the impending release of avTag and propose an app to sort socks before going on to talk about lighter stuff such as trademark infringement, the Apple stock split and what might happen at WWDC.

Scotty and John talks about implementing support conversations in your app using Helpshift. Internationalization using Tethras and Syncing using Data Abstract from RemObjects.

Scotty and John discuss the Heartbleed bug, password security, Accessibility and wonder if there will be a 2nd round of WWDC tickets.

Scotty and John chat talk the WWDC ticket lottery, the Beautiful Pixels review of Findery, Rails Girls Summer of Code and Johns first peep at Android development.

Scotty and John chat talk about is Macworld still relevant, the challenges of inheriting old code bases and the sudden rejection of apps that use QTkit from the Mac App Store

Scotty and John chat about their favourite moments from NSConference 6 and John's trip to Athens

Scotty and John chat about the the world wide release of Findery and Scotty's Nexus 7.

Scotty and John chat about the release of RemObjects C# (A project Scotty has been working on) and the up coming shipping of Findery. The also talk about attending conferences based around other communities than your own.

Scotty and John chat about the future of Microsoft, 37 Signals decision to slim down it's product range (and how we should take note as indie developers), the first week of Reviewcast and NSConference

Scotty and John chat about the release of Reviewcast, Paper for Facebook and GitFlow with GitHub

Scotty and John chat about how ridiculous the stock market is. How open source code should have good stewardship. Handling bad connectivity in mobile apps and Scotty's total failure to release.

Scotty and John chat about Johns friendship with Stuart Copeland, talking about money,the changes in who writes/commissions software and using pascal to write iOS code. Scotty also reveals his plans for Reviewcast and admits his procrastination over how to deploy it while John drops a few hints on the world wide release of Findery. Finally they wish Matt Gemmell all the best for his new career and talk about a few free resources.

Scotty and John chat about the failure of EverPix, Touch Typing, Keyboards, Trackpads and Mice

Scotty and John chat about whats happened in 2013 and what they predict for 2014... Oh and maybe once or twice they mention it's the 100th show.

Scotty and John chat about the iOS 7 redesign of Findery and how the user experience was developed by watching people use the app to attempt to achieve different tasks.

Scotty and John chat about NSConference, the concept of MVP and having to Kill Your Darlings. Scotty also doesn't know what to do about getting a new developer machine.

Scotty and John chat about software the balance between perceived software stagnation vs taking the time to ensure software stability.