Edge Cases

iPhone to Every Man, Woman, and Child

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

Links:

• Andrew’s Sound Quality Survey
• The Limits to Growth « Wikipedia
• Back to the Balance Sheet « asymco
• P/E Ratio « Wikipedia
• How Long « The Powers of Observation
• Paper | FiftyThree
• Apple Press Info - Apple Launches Subscriptions on the App Store
• Simplenote. An easy way to keep notes, lists, ideas, and more.
• iAd « Wikipedia
• Baidu « Wikipedia
• The Mac App Store Needs Paid Upgrades « Call Me Fishmeal
• I Had A Baby, You Launched An App « Build and Analyze

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

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.

Links:

• “Marion, don’t look at it. Shut your eyes, Marion. Don’t look at it, no matter what happens!” « IMDb
• Andy Lee tweet: “@apontious @rentzsch The mnemonic is “He’s so smart, I wish I could RENT Z SCHool he went to.” You have to imagine a French accent.”
• errno.h « Wikipedia
• Mac OS memory management « Wikipedia
• rentzsch/mach_error-Decoder-Ring « github.com
• rentzsch/NSXReturnThrowError « github.com
• Dave Dribin on Twitter
• NSError** is hard « rentzsch.tumblr.com
• rentzsch/JRErr « github.com

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

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.

Links:

• Caveat-Slash-Manifesto « The Powers of Observation
• Gary Burghoff « Wikipedia
• Steve Streza tweet: “That this meme has gone viral is perhaps my greatest and most meaningless contribution to the Apple dev community. http://strez.at/9RI7”
• Steve Streza “Radar or GTFO” meme picture
• Radar or GTFO « Black Pixel
• Fix Radar or GTFO
• VoodooPad from Flying Meat
• Open Radar
• Apple Developer Forums

Rejected Episode Titles:

• Radar or GTFO
• Real Fire That You Can’t Reproduce
• File, File, File, File, File
• You and Your Science!

The Ping of Installer Technologies

Wolf Rentzsch talks with Andrew Pontious about the developer ramifications of Apple’s new MacBook Pro Retina displays and the dismal state of third-party library updating infrastructures on the Mac.

Links:

• Subpixel rendering « Wikipedia
• RubyGems « Wikipedia
• What is a Python Egg? « Stack Overflow
• The Comprehensive Perl Archive Network
• GitHub
• Sparkle: a free software update framework for the Mac
• Homebrew: The missing package manager for OS X
• iTunes Ping « Wikipedia
• mogenerator + Xmo’d
• Sort Descriptor Programming Topics: Creating and Using Sort Descriptors (From 2007)
• Method invocation formatting styles « Cocoa with Love (Mentions Wil Shipley’s indentation style)
• CocoaPods: The Objective-C Library Manager
• Debian package management
• Cydia
• npm - Node Package Manager
• ZEVO « Ten’s Complement (ZFS product for OS X)
• Internet Config « Wikipedia

Rejected Episode Titles:

• Almost as Bad as You Can Imagine
• A Layer on Top of the Magical Purity
• Minimize Surface Area
• Inside the Veal Pen
• Solved Rocket Science
• The World’s Most Unfortunate Acronym

My First Xcode 4 Rant

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

Links:

• Build So Good « The Powers of Observation
• Text from Xcode
• Xcode 4 User Guide: About Xcode
• How to make Xcode’s UI work for you (maybe) « Clever Blog Name
• A Picture Worth a Thousand Pixels « The Powers of Observation

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

Sandboxing Day

Wolf Rentzsch talks with Andrew Pontious about his blog post “Mac App Store vs Buying Direct”.

Links:

• Daniel Jalkut tweet: “The President has used a word that @rentzsch coined. That’s quite an accomplishment, Wolf! http://www.politico.com/politico44/2012/05/obama-im-the-twoosh-master-124603.html (via @rtmfd)”
• Daniel Jalkut tweet: “Hard to believe it’s been 6 years since C4[0]. @rentzsch transformed my career, and in subtle ways I’m sure he transformed the industry.”
• Colin Barrett tweet: “C4[0] (and Evening at Adler) were such a huge deal for my career. Can’t really overstate that.”
• Coda 2, the iPad, and the Future of Computing « aaron.vegh.ca
• Holy C—p, I’m Programming on My iPad: A Web Developer’s look at Diet Coda « josephschmitt.me
• Build So Good « The Powers of Observation
• Mac App Store vs Buying Direct « rentzsch.tumblr.com
• Yet, he goes on. (Comment on Wolf’s post)
• Rentzsch: Mac App Store vs. Buying Direct « Daring Fireball
• Episode 43: Get Out Of The Sandbox « Core Intuition
• Sandboxing and Clipstart « Manton Reece
• Bodega: Your corner store for Mac apps

Rejected Episode Titles:

• I File Every Day
• In Their Various Bloggy Ways
• Three Shows of Me Just Pulling My Hair Out
• Missile Command
• I Try to Live My Life Away from PDFs
• Insert Your Version of Thanksgiving Here
• It Might Eventually Cut Your Head Off
• Hit the Yes Button Till They Get to the Dancing Bunnies
• A Revolt of the Nerds
• Scary Little Panels

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?

Links:

• Upgrading to the Next Model « The Powers of Observation
• Apple - iPhone 4S - Edit HD movies and trailers with iMovie.
• Daring Fireball
• The Lovers, the Dreamers, and Me « The Powers of Observation
• Daring Fireball: iOS Low-Hanging Fruit
• Textastic - Text, Code and Markup Editor with Syntax Highlighting - FTP, SFTP, Dropbox - for iPad
• Diet Coda
• Codea – iPad
• JetBrains AppCode: an Objective-C IDE That Makes a Difference

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

Dot-Mom and Apple Pie

In this inaugural podcast, Wolf Rentzsch talks with Andrew Pontious about the good parts and the bad parts of Core Data.

Links:

• Introduction to Core Data Programming Guide
• Object-relational mapping « Wikipedia
• Active Record
• Django
• EOF - Enterprise Objects Framework « Wikipedia
• EOF - End-of-File « Wikipedia
• Software evolution « Wikipedia
• Upgrading to the Next Model « The Powers of Observation
• Brent switching away from Core Data « rentzsch.tumblr.com
• The Law of Leaky Abstractions « Joel on Software
• SQLite
• Andrew Pontious on Twitter
• Wolf Rentzsch on Twitter