Daniel and Manton talk about Manton’s upcoming talk, the merits of code vs. ideas in presentations, and the risk of sudden rejection on Apple’s platforms.

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• Debug #30 – Interview with Casey Liss about C# and other things.
• Accidental Tech Podcast – Podcast featuring Casey Liss, John Siracusa, and Marco Arment.
• CocoaConf Austin – The April 4-5 conference at which Manton will be speaking.
• Sunlit – Manton’s iOS photo-storytelling app.
• Marco Arment Çingleton 2012 – Marco’s talk in which he eschewed the use of slides.
• Deprecated API Usage – Screen capture from Drew McCormack highlighting Apple’s rejection of QuickTime APIs in Mac App Store apps.
• QuickTime X – Apple continues to market QuickTime even as it rejects apps that use its APIs.
• QTKit Framework – The specific QuickTime framework which Drew’s app used and was rejected for.
• FastScripts – Daniel’s scripting utility that does not fit well with sandboxing.
• Clipstart – Manton’s movie clip organizer that likewise does not suit sandboxing.

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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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• What Gives? – Customer inquiry from App.net user @amro to Manton’s @riverfold.
• Tweet Library – Manton’s iOS Twitter client.
• Zendesk – Customer service management software.
• Not Getting a Response? – Daniel’s support page for Red Sweater, including a caveat about alternative contact channel.
• Vaynerchuk @ Elevate NYC – Via Marco Arment, Gary Vaynerchuk on the value of being present as a company on the big social networks.

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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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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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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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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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Daniel and Manton announce the Core Intuition Job Board, marvel at the so-called “Presenter’s Paradox” as it may pertain to products, and discuss the weight of lofty ambitions on folks such as Glassboard’s Justin Williams.

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• Core Intuition Job Board – The new job board for iOS and Mac Cocoa developers.
• Presenter’s Paradox – Harvard Business Review article about the effect of “add ons” that don’t cut the mustard.
• Glassboard – Justin Williams’s one-man social network.
• Apportable.com – Cross-platform project enabling Objective-C apps that run on both iOS and Android.
• The Cocotron – Christopher Lloyd’s ambitious cross-platform Cocoa implementation.

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Manton and Daniel compare notes on the popular iOS games Flappy Bird and Threes, deduce lessons on the value of simplicity in apps, and weigh the value of iOS versions of apps as marketing for Mac software.

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• .GEARS – The small company behind Flappy Bird.
• I Am Sorry – Dong Nguyen, developer of Flappy Bird, on his decision to take the game down.
• The “Blah Blah Blah on Steroids” – Venture capitalist Bijan Sabet on the problems of overly-featured products.
• Threes – A fun, numerical puzzle game from Asher Vollmer and crew.
• Addicted To Threes – Daniel’s post about the alluring aspects of Threes.
• “Just Deleted Threes” – Brent Simmons deletes the game from his phone to get his life back.
• Ending the App Store Top 200 – Manton’s argument in favor of eliminating the App Store app leaderboard.

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Daniel and Manton discuss 37signals becoming Basecamp, spreading one’s self too thinly, choosing a product lineup, time management, and App.net’s new Kickstarter-like system: Backer.

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• Downton Abbey – The British period soap opera set in a very large house.
• Two Big Announcements – 37signals announces its name change to Basecamp.
• Basecamp.com – New site centered around, you guessed it, Basecamp.
• Paper: Stories From Facebook – The new app from Facebook with a controversially generic name.
• Black Ink – Daniel’s Mac-based crosswords app.
• Gus Mueller – Our friend and the developer behind Flying Meat.
• Flying Meat – Gus’s company, which recently changed its focus exclusively to Acorn .
• VoodooPad – Gus’s former desktop wiki app, now a product of Plausible Labs .
• Backer – New crowdfunding service from App.net directed at financing specific software features.
• Kickstarter – The popular crowdfunding service geared more towards physical rewards.
• My Nightmare App – Daniel’s 2006 critique of an overly-ambitious crowd-specified app design contest.

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Manton and Daniel celebrate 30 years of Mac, compare Apple and Nintendo, talk about balancing features you use vs. features you don’t, and discuss the wealth of iOS and Mac oriented podcasts.

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• Thirty Years of Mac – Apple celebrates the 30th anniversary of the Mac.
• The Mac Keeps Going Forever – Macworld interviews Apple executives about the Mac.
• Macintendo Family Values – Daniel’s post from 2006 about shared values between Nintendo and Apple.
• I Want the Basics Solid – Marco Arment’s tweets and Daniel’s replies about the challenge of identifying an app’s “basics.”
• Bloatware and the 80/20 Myth – Joel Spolsky’s article supporting the idea that each user favors a different 20% of an app.
• A Feature You Don’t Give a Damn About – My tweet about the reality of working on features you don’t personally use.
• iOS Dev Tools – A collection of resources for iOS developers, from A.
• Maximum Viable Products – Cabel Sasser of Panic on building substantial products.
• Cabel Sasser & Steven Frank – The whole &yet interview with Cabel and Steven of Panic.
• Edge Cases – Developer podcast with Wolf Rentzsch and Andrew Pontious.
• The Record – Brent Simmons and Chris Parrish’s interview podcast with members of the Mac and Cocoa community.
• NSBrief – Saul Mora’s interview podcast with Cocoa developers.
• Debug – Developer interview podcast with Rene Ritchie and Guy English.

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