The iDeveloper Podcast 642m5o

This week John continues his series of random thoughts by talking about an internationalization gotcha he came across and Scotty discuses his lack of progress on his side project. The discussion also includes thoughts on WWDC the future of Swift and the Amazon S3 failure.

In a slightly longer show this week Scotty and John discuss how some well known Mac apps seem to be doing just as well outside of the Mac App Store as they were in it as well as how Kickstarter has been used recently by two well know developers to find development projects. Scotty gives an update on his side project and how he is resurrecting Reviewcast and preparing a "Swift in One Hour" training course. John shares his battle with some right to left text issues and how he over came them.

John talks about the Netflix hack day and discusses how hack days really help you to not only explore ideas but how to sell them as well. Scotty updates us on his progress at becoming indie and the problems he is having choosing a project to work on based on his inability to focus on one thing for a long time.

John holds Scotty's feet over the fire concerning his week of "Mission Planning" as part of his 2017 goal to ship something.

John and Scotty start the year by sharing their aspirations for 2017 as well as making a prediction or two. They also discuss John's ongoing wrestling with AVFoundation and the difficulties of learning complex frameworks. Scotty also announces his intention to produce an on going diary of his mission to ship some sort of product in 2017.

John and Scotty discuss the new feature in the Netflix iOS app, old code crashing on MacOS Sierra and the difficulties of making fixes and getting them into the Mac App Store. They also talk about the people benefits vs the technical benefits of conference attendance. John also confesses to building a fake Donald Trump tweet.

John and Scotty discuss Scotty's trip to the DoiOS conference and Appsterdam. They also reflect on John's first year at Netflix and Scotty's Laptop vs Desktop dilema. (Apologies for the poor audio quality)

We have been away for 9 weeks but it is time to say "Hello Again". They talk about handling airport wifi in your apps. The new Apple notebook range. Scotty's recent travels and conferences. John' s audio set-up and what they have decided to call "The Season of Productivity"

This week John has to own up to missing recording the show as he fell asleep. He also talks about some recent issues he had with using Cocoapods after leaving a project for a year. Scotty talks about his trip to iOSDevUK and totally forgets Richard Turton's name.

This week John and Scotty talk about John's trip to Europe and Scotty's trip to 360iDev. They also discuss Apple's announcement about cleaning up the App Store.

This week John and Scotty talk again about age asking questions about ageism in our industry. They also discuss burnout and if it is related to age any way.

This week John and Scotty talk about becoming a better developer. They use a blog post by Zach McArtor of Martian Craft to guide their conversation.

This week John and Scotty talk about the the problem with having third party code that goes out of date and is no longer maintained.

This week John and Scotty talk about the lack of good sample code that not only demonstrates a framework or technique but how it also fits into the context of well architected full application.

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 .

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.