A brief podcast for cocoa developers, talking about interesting developer-y stuff
Drew McCormack (@drewmccormack) is the Founder and Lead developer of The Mental Faculty, a small, independent software developer based in The Netherlands. Drew's experience as an academic computing researcher is invaluable for learning the pros and cons to parallelizing your apps. In this episode, we discuss parallel programming as it relates to Mac and iOS applications.
Links
The Mental Faculty
iDeveloperTV Video Courses
GCD Documentation
SETI@Home
Amdahl's Law
XPC Services
Kevin Hoctor (@kevinhoctor) is the owner of No Thirst Software, developers of Debt Quencher and the popular finance management application, MoneyWell for Mac and iOS. In this episode, we talk to the wise Hoctor about making mistakes in your business.
Sponsor
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Links
NSConference Video Pack
iDeveloperLive
CocoaFusion
Entrepreneurial Seduction
Laurent Sansonetti (@lrz) is the original creator of MacRuby, and former Apple Engineer. He has recently moved back to his home in Belgium, and has made a splash in the Cocoa development community with his recent release of RubyMotion, which brings the Ruby environment to the iOS platform. In this episode, we discuss the MacRuby project, and are introduced to RubyMotion.
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Allen Ding (@alding) is the original author of Kiwi, a popular open source testing framework for iOS. During his European tour, Saul arraigned to meet Allen in Amsterdam for a chat on the origins of Kiwi, and where it's going.
Links
Kiwi
rspec
Test Driving iOS Development with Kiwi by Daniel Steinburg
Skinny Controllers, Fat Models
Egeniq
Ben Scheirman (@subdigital) is a Rails and iOS developer who's recently made a splash with his new video screencasts for Mac and iOS Developers, NSScreencast.
Sponsor
CocoaConf
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Special Offer
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Links
NSScreencast.com
railscasts.com
peepcode.com
destroyallsoftware.com
appkickstand.com
giggletouch.com
@nsscreencast
Reflection
David Kinney (@dlkinney) is the lead orgnaizer of SecondConf, a small confernece aimed at inspiring independent developers. David is also an independent consultant and, in this episode, we dicuss OpenCL development for the Mac.
Sponsor
Tower - The Git Client for Mac
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Show Notes
OpenCL Web Site
OpenCL on Wikipedia
Radix Sort
Cocoaheads Chicago
WWDC 2011 - 401 What's New in OpenCL
Sunset Lake Software
Programming Massivley Parrallel Processors with CUDA
NVIDIA community - CUDA
WindyCity Go
Jen Gordon (@itsjengordon) is a designer and marketer who started her own business called Tapptics. Tapptics provides instruction for developers who want to design and implement custom artwork without the help of a designer. In this episode, we talk about how she started her business, and how Tapptics can help indie developers on a budget design great looking apps.
Special Offer
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Graham Lee (@iamleeg) is the author of Secure Mac Programming. However, he is also an advocate of Test Driven Development for iOS and Mac developers. In this episode, we discuss some of the principles of testing while still being pragmatic about testing.
Sponsor
Get 10% off your copy of Tower using the Coupon code NSBRIEF10, or by using this link
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Colin Wheeler (@CocoaSamurai) is a Cocoa and iOS developer and runs his local Cocoaheads and NSCoderNights in Des Moines, Iowa. He recently gave a presentation on alternative UI frameworks for Mac Application Development, and we discuss them in detail.
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Links
Jay Graves (@skabber) is the CTO at Double Encore, Inc, an iOS (and Android) consulting agency based in Denver, Colorado. Part of being a consulting agency with large and demanding clients, Double Encore has to operate differently than other indie consulting shops. In this episode, we take a look at some of the challenges Double Encore has faced, and how they solved them.
Links
Slides from Jay's Talk at 360idev
Double Encore
Jobs at Double Encore - jobs@doubleencore.com
Vending Machine
A Podcast for Cocoa developers!
