8
08 Jul 2012

iPhone to Every Man, Woman, and Child

Andrew Pontious talks with Wolf Rentzsch about Apple’s growth and how it will affect developers.

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Rejected Episode Titles:

  • Holding the iSight Up to My Face
  • Throwing It Up the Charts
  • Put Away Their iPad and Pull Out a Dell
  • Happy As a Pig in Slop
  • Definitely Not a Spindler
  • Awesome in the Tim Cook Way
  • The Flying Saucer That’s Landed
  • An Intel Core I7 Sticker on My MacBook Air
  • Another Upper for a Topic
7
30 Jun 2012

If You Look at the Error, You Will Crash

Wolf Rentzsch rants (there’s that word again) with Andrew Pontious about Apple’s NSError implementation, while also giving a brief history of Mac/Unix error handling and introducing his new JRErr library, which makes NSError usage easier.

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Rejected Episode Titles:

  • Release My Cushion
  • The Lie of Try-Catch
  • Hypothetical Drug-Addicted Little Sister
  • You’ve Got Booleans and You’ve Got Pointers, Haha
  • God Help Me, Apple Events!
  • All the Badness That Is NSError
  • A Magic Cocoa Wand We Could Wave
  • NSTherapy
6
23 Jun 2012

For You, I'll File a Radar

Andrew Pontious lays out with Wolf Rentzsch three things Apple can do to turn bug reporting into a virtuous cycle, not the vicious cycle it is now. They also discuss problems with the Apple Developer Forums.

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Rejected Episode Titles:

  • Radar or GTFO
  • Real Fire That You Can’t Reproduce
  • File, File, File, File, File
  • You and Your Science!
5
22 Jun 2012
4
21 Jun 2012

My First Xcode 4 Rant

Andrew Pontious rants (but not mindlessly) with Wolf Rentzsch about problems in the Xcode 4 project window.

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Rejected Episode Titles:

  • The Double Broom
  • The Big Fuzzy Scrollbar
  • Wolf Tracks
  • Low-Bandwidth Form of Tracking That Only Requires a Single Finger
  • Ears on Both Sides and Chin Hanging Down
  • Programming on Ice
  • Killing Off the Swoopy
3
20 Jun 2012
2
25 May 2012

Would They Call it iCode?

Andrew Pontious talks with Wolf Rentzsch about a version of Xcode for the iPad. Is it possible? What would or should it look it? Is it likely?

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Rejected Episode Titles:

  • Arrow Floaty Roundy Thing
  • A Whole Bunch of Clang Engineers
  • Rule Number Four: No UI Fiddling
  • No Building Photoshop
  • Disintegrated Development Environment
  • Let’s Not Talk About What the Hammer Signifies
  • Plucking That Low-Hanging Fruit
  • Cram More Punctuation into the Keyboard
  • Ambient Background Noise That You Paid Extra For
  • No More Weird Method-Swizzling Tricks
  • Squeezing Unix Till It Cried Uncle
1
13 May 2012