Daniel Jalkut and Manton Reece talk with special guest Wolf Rentzsch about C4, section 3.3.1, and more.
Download (MP3, 1 hour, 27 MB)
Links for the show:
- Wolf Rentzsch’s Tumblr blog
- ClickToFlash, plugin for selectively enabling Flash content in Safari.
- iPhone Developer Section 3.3.1 before and after, as recorded by John Gruber.
- C4 Release, Wolf announces end of C4 conference
- C4 Videos, sessions as published by Wolf to Viddler
- Marshall Culpepper, C4 speaker who was mistreated by audience members
- LLVM and WebKit, examples of Apple innovations that benefit everybody
- Bill Bumgarner and Chris Espinosa, Apple developer tools engineers
- Variable Aliasing, Wikipedia entry on one of the “features” that limits C language optimizations
- Node.js, high performance web server framework, by Ryan Dahl
- Cappuccino, a web-based implementation of Cocoa frameworks
- Pain Is A Gift, Daniel’s blog follow-up to wishes that Apple “get spanked”
- Apple’s Mistake, Paul Graham’s essay about Apple’s harmed reputation with developers
Daniel Jalkut is the founder of Red Sweater Software. His most popular products are MarsEdit, Black Ink, FastScripts, and FlexTime.
Manton Reece is the founder of Riverfold Software. He builds e-book software for Ingram Digital and has 2 independent products: Clipstart and Wii Transfer.
Great work, such an awesome episode. Hopefully more like it in the future.
Thanks Shannon! It was a fun one to do. I expect we’ll try to get a guest on the show every handful of episodes. At the very least maybe for the 40th. :-)
Finally got some time to listen to this episode and I really enjoyed it. I’m a fairly recent convert to the Wolf Rentzsch fan club, but I really enjoy listening to him speak. This discussion made me think that it’s because he is the engineer I aspire to be. Stretch goal! Looking forward to more great shows.
Great episode. While I have never been happy about the “closed” nature of the iPhone OS, the implications of 3.3.1 for development tool and programming language innovation had not sunk in for me. Thank you for shedding light on this important topic.
That was a really good episode, thanks to both of you and Wolf for putting this together.
Regarding variable aliasing in C compared to Fortran, isn’t this why C99 include the restrict keyword? I don’t think it is enforced by the compiler but as long as you use it properly the compiler should be able to make reasonable optimizations.
Great episode. Any chance you can get Wolf to post his OPML?
I’d also like to ask Wolf if he would post his OPML, or package it as a Google Reader bundle (http://googlereader.blogspot.com/2009/05/life-is-great-bundle-of-little-things.html)
So where’s EP31? You could talk with somebody from Valve about the technicalities of the Mac port of Steam.
Thanks guys. Love the show. It was great hearing the C4 story direct ‘from the Wolf’s Mouth’.