Core Intuition

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

Episode 30: Seed Of Discontent

daniel — Thu, 27 May 2010 18:43:23 +0000

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

Episode 29: We Never Make Mistakes

Manton Reece — Thu, 13 May 2010 16:20:31 +0000

Daniel Jalkut and Manton Reece talk about the MarsEdit 3 release, WWDC 2010 being announced and then selling out, a correction from episode 28, and handling support email.

Download (MP3, 36 minutes, 18 MB)

Links for the show:

MarsEdit 3 ships — blog post from Daniel
WWDC sells out — it took 8 days
Convoluted NIBs — tweet from Buzz
FogBugz — bug tracking and support email
Cotweet — Twitter tool for businesses

Episode 28: The iPad Super Episode

Manton Reece — Fri, 30 Apr 2010 01:12:26 +0000

Daniel and Manton talk about everything iPad, how we’re using it and plan to develop for it, plus iPad listener questions from Twitter. A special hour-long episode.

Download (MP3, 55 minutes, 26 MB)

Links for the show:

Twitterrific — great Twitter iPad client from Icon Factory
Articles — iPad app for Wikipedia from Sophia Teutschler
Instapaper — Marco Arment’s read-it-later web site and iPhone/iPad app
Section 3.3.1 — initial summary Apple’s Flash ban from John Gruber
Apple Announces LapTop — what if the iPad had been first, by Guy Kawasaki
Cabel in Apple Store — Panic co-founder buys lots of iPads
Omni refund policy — great customer service, but 30% to Apple

Special thanks to our listeners for the iPad tweet questions: Alex, Jon, Ryan, Michael, Paul, Jorge, and Mike (links go to the question).

-Special instapaper

- link to questions

- cabel photo in p

Episode 27: A Butterfly Flaps Its Wings

Manton Reece — Tue, 13 Apr 2010 15:14:58 +0000

Manton and Daniel discuss the state of iPhone and Mac development, Macworld 2010, and a listener question about marketing.

Download (MP3, 27 minutes, 13 MB)

Links for the show:

Lucius Kwok on Twitter – guest theme music
SoundStudio and Couch to 5K (iTunes) – Mac and iPhone apps
Ngmoco acquiring Freeverse – Lucius’s take on the Freeverse acquisition
Peter Cohen on The Loop – about the Freeverse news
Was Macworld worth it? – Manton’s blog post about Macworld 2010
Mac Indie Marketing – blog from Dan Wood

Episode 26: There’s A Pad For That

Manton Reece — Mon, 08 Feb 2010 16:48:25 +0000

Manton and Daniel discuss the iPad announcement and preparing for Macworld Expo.

Download (MP3, 30 minutes, 14 MB)

Links for the show:

iPad event live coverage – from gdgt.com
iPad event photos – a Flickr set from Michael B. Johnson
Macworld Expo – the main expo web site
Manton’s blog post about going to Macworld – includes link to expo pass

Episode 25: Maybe It’s A Deprecated Thing

Manton Reece — Sat, 16 Jan 2010 03:06:25 +0000

Manton and Daniel discuss Apple tablet rumors, NSConference, working through someone else’s project, and new Apple frameworks.

Download (MP3, 46 minutes, 22 MB)

Links for the show:

NSConference – Mac developer conference from the Mac Developer Network
Tablet musings – John Gruber’s initial summary of tablet rumors
Jason Snell – tablet isn’t a news story until it ships
Aaron Hillegass on the text system – from CocoaHeads Atlanta
Unison – usenet client from Panic
Today 2.0 – iCal companion from Second Gear

Episode 24: Don’t Overthink It

Manton Reece — Tue, 10 Nov 2009 05:19:20 +0000

Manton and Daniel discuss One Finger Discount, inspiration, podcasts, and including open source software with your app.

Download (MP3, 38 minutes, 18 MB)

Links for the show:

OneFingerDiscount.com – promotion for 20% off Mac software
MacHeist – 6 free apps
This Week In Startups – podcast with Jason Calacanis and guests
37signals Podcast – from the creators of Basecamp and Highrise
MDN Show with Daniel – Scotty interviews Daniel Jalkut
Pair – Daniel’s old web host
Slicehost – popular VPS hosting
Dreamhost Scale – Manton’s blog post
RBSplitView – replacement for NSSplitView

Episode 23: Too Distracted To Name This Episode

Manton Reece — Thu, 24 Sep 2009 15:58:33 +0000

Manton and Daniel discuss Intuit buying Mint.com, Google AdWords, overcoming distractions, and hiring a designer.

Download (MP3, 31 minutes, 15 MB)

Links for the show:

Mint.com – web-based finance software
Intuit – makers of popular Quicken and TurboTax software
Concentrate – fewer distractions Mac app from RoobaSoft
The Graphic Design Hat – Daniel’s post from last year to find a designer.
C4 attendees – unofficial list from Fraser Speirs.