Episode 130: You Have A Legitimate Complaint

Manton and Daniel devote the entire episode to a discussion of handling customer service mishaps, and how accountable indie developers should be to various support channels.

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March 25, 2014 at 12:11 pm.

Episode 129: We Totally Lost All Your Data

Daniel and Manton talk about App.io live demos of iOS apps, the lure of rolling one’s own solution, and consolidating hosting into fewer services.

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  • App.io – Interactive simulator builds of iOS apps running live in a browser.
  • Diet Coda – Panic’s use of App.io to provide an interactive tour.
  • MacMiniColo – Hosting provider based on Mac Minis running in a server farm.
  • DreamHost – Affordable web hosting with a sassy, unprofessional attitude.
  • Pair.com – Shared web hosting with less attitude, more cost.
  • Rackspace – The VPS hosting service that Daniel uses.
  • Linode – The VPS hosting service that Manton uses.
  • Dreamhost Scale – Manton’s blog post talking up the automation advantages at DreamHost.
  • DreamHost’s Super Lame Apology – Daniel’s blog post reacting to DreamHost’s amateur communication style.

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March 21, 2014 at 8:29 am.

Episode 128: Less Code Is Better Code

Manton and Daniel talk about adopting Apple’s latest technologies, yielding control to automatically generated code, and how to build a developer portfolio that highlights your skills to a prospective employer.

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  • Starting Over – Culminating post by Brent Simmons in the saga of his decision to use or not use Core Data.
  • Transitioning to ARC – Advice from Apple on adopting their automatic reference counting solution.
  • NSBlog – Mike Ash’s blog.
  • Less code, less effort – Brent Simmons on the various benefits of removing unnecessary code.

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March 14, 2014 at 6:50 am.

Episode 127: Too Many Weird Naming Conventions

Daniel and Manton celebrate Apple’s fix of their SSL security bug, discuss GNU’s own SSL issues, and talk about code formatting conventions in Cocoa and Ruby.

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  • Critical Crypto Bug – Ars Technica article about an SSL security issue in GnuTLS.
  • Ruby Style Guide – Unofficial style guide for Ruby professing, among other things, an affinity for _underscores.
  • PowerPlant – The Carbon C++ framework from Metrowerks.
  • NSConference – The UK-based Mac and iOS conference put on by Steve Scott.
  • Hungarian Notation – Wikipedia article on a variable naming convention that includes variable type in the name.
  • Making Wrong Code Look Wrong – We didn’t mention this, but it’s a classic Joel on Software post about coding style, including Hungarian Notation.
  • Brent Simmons – Original developer of MarsEdit.

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March 6, 2014 at 7:25 pm.

Episode 126: A Perfect Storm Of Two Or Three Problems

Manton and Daniel reflect upon the first week of the Core Intuition job board, Daniel’s introduction to Ruby programming, and Apple’s obligation to ensure quality of their security libraries.

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  • Core Intuition Jobs – Our (fairly!) new job board.
  • Dashcode User Guide – Apple’s documentation for their neglecting web-technologies development IDE.
  • SQLite – Famously reliable open source project with questionably conventional code style.
  • A Single Bad ‘Goto’ – Wired article summarizing the Apple SSL security issue.
  • goto fail; – The simple source code mistake that caused the issue.

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March 2, 2014 at 10:59 pm.