Core Intuition

Episode 40: Syncing Up At The Conference

Manton Reece — Sat, 04 Jun 2011 22:03:23 +0000

Daniel and Manton talk about WWDC 2011 planning, SecondConf blitz talks, Twitter in iOS, MarsEdit syncing, and iPhone-only vs. universal apps.

Download (MP3, 34 minutes, 16.7 MB)

Links for the show:

Twitter in iOS 5 – Daring Fireball on the rumor
WWDC 2011 press release – Lion, iOS 5, and iCloud
@drwave – Michael B. Johnson’s Twitter account
SecondConf Blitz Talks – also check out the videos
Dropbox API – docs and libraries for the popular file sync service
Simplenote – notes app with syncing API
Omni Sync Server – forum post from Omni and beta sign up
Things, State of Sync – blog post, Part III
The Hit List – 1.0 ships, with iPhone sync coming soon
Nimbus – iOS code editor from listener Paul Reynolds

Episode 39: Stuck In The Middle Of Nowhere

daniel — Thu, 05 May 2011 20:54:55 +0000

Daniel and Manton talk about the fast sell-out of WWDC 2011 tickets, NSConference UK, SXSW Interactive, and our heartfelt, possibly premature opinions on Xcode 4.

Download (MP3, 40 minutes, 19 MB)

Links for the show:

WWDC — the Apple developer conference
NSConference – the UK Mac and iOS conference put on by Steve Scott
SXSW – South by Southwest, the Austin interactive, music, and film conference
SecondConf – An indie, Chicago-based Mac and iOS conference
Pear Note – Note-taking utility from Useful Fruit Software
Xcode 4 – The next-generation Mac and iOS IDE from Apple
AppCode – A new ObjC IDE from the makers of IntelliJ

Episode 38: The Impression Of Standing Still

Manton Reece — Sat, 12 Mar 2011 17:35:28 +0000

Manton and Daniel talk about the iPad before the iPad 2 was announced, Developers Against Poverty, NSConference, support, and version numbers.

Download (MP3, 39 minutes, 19 MB)

Links for the show:

Developers Against Poverty — campaign to bring clean water to areas of the world that need it
NSConference UK 2011 — UK developer conference from Scotty of iDeveloper TV
OmniGroup — huge thanks to Omni for their donation to Developers Against Poverty
Smiley — measuring customer happiness from 37signals

Episode 37: Mac Users Were Made To Spend Money

daniel — Fri, 21 Jan 2011 17:04:10 +0000

Manton and Daniel talk about the debut of the Mac App Store, tips for learning Mac development, and customer support.

Download (MP3, 33 minutes, 15 MB)

Links for the show:

Clipstart, MarsEdit, Black Ink – Our apps on the Mac App Store
Acorn – App Store page for Gus Mueller’s image editing app
Big Nerd Ranch – The highly respected Cocoa boot-camp training company
NSConference – The UK developer conference from Scotty of iDeveloper TV
Realmac Software – Mac developers who made bold pricing changes for the App Store

Episode 36: I Completely Messed It Up

Manton Reece — Fri, 03 Dec 2010 19:53:37 +0000

Daniel and Manton talk about emergency App Store releases, memory leaks, the upcoming 360macdev conference, and a listener question on the GPL.

Download (MP3, 39 minutes, 19 MB)

Links for the show:

Using heapshot analysis — Bill Bumgarner’s blog post
360|MacDev — new conference in Denver
Getting pretty lonely — Daniel’s blog post on the GPL

Episode 35: Wrap It Up In Cocoa

Manton Reece — Wed, 17 Nov 2010 18:42:43 +0000

Daniel and Manton discuss the recent MacTech and 360iDev conferences, plus listener questions on customer support while on vacation, shipping a quality app, and SQLite wrappers.

Download (MP3, 27 minutes, 13 MB)

Links for the show:

MacTech — Mac dev and IT conference in Los Angeles
360iDev — iPhone conference in Austin
FMDB — SQLite wrapper from Gus Mueller

Episode 34: The Mac App Store

daniel — Thu, 28 Oct 2010 15:48:20 +0000

Manton and Daniel discuss the recently announced Mac App Store, and what it means for demos, private APIs, exclusivity, and pricing.

Download (MP3, 49 minutes, 23 MB)

Links for the show:

Apple’s October Event – Video of the event announcing the Mac App Store
Justin Williams on the Mac App Store – His “Going All In” approach
Ken Case on the Mac App Store – The Omni Group plans to treat the store like a retail channel
Jamie Phelps blog post – Listener question and thoughts on pricing
More questions from Twitter – Tweet Library collection of tweets from listeners

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Episode 33: You’ll Have Too Much Press

Manton Reece — Thu, 21 Oct 2010 22:17:40 +0000

Daniel and Manton discuss Manton’s new iPad app: Tweet Library, Apple’s ultimatum to app-name squatters, and pricing iOS apps.

Download (MP3, 32 minutes, 16 MB)

Links for the show:

Tweet Library — Manton’s new app on the App Store

Episode 32: A New Version Was Released Blah Blah Blah

Manton Reece — Thu, 15 Jul 2010 13:59:01 +0000

Daniel Jalkut and Manton Reece talk about the iPhone 4, reception problems, parsing strategies, and advertising.

Download (MP3, 33 minutes, 16 MB)

Links for the show:

Consumer Reports on the iPhone 4 — reception issue details
LibXML — popular open source XML parsing library
ParseKit — Objective-C framework from Todd Ditchendorf
Fusion Ads — ad network, embedded in some apps
Camera+ first month — successful iPhone app launch from Tap Tap Tap

Episode 31: Skipping The Morning Session

Manton Reece — Wed, 23 Jun 2010 02:30:46 +0000

Daniel Jalkut and Manton Reece talk about WWDC 2010 a week after the conference, and take two listener questions about unit testing.

Download (MP3, 29 minutes, 15 MB)

Links for the show:

WWDC 2010 keynote — announcing the iPhone 4
WWDC 2010 session videos — now free for all developers
New Mac Mini — Macworld coverage
Daniel’s tweet — the Mac seems alive and well