The iDeveloper Podcast by Steve Scott (Scotty) & John Fox Episodes

	Pub. Date	Title	Duration
	15 Jan 2014	101: The Touchy Business of Failure and Typing	00:29:27
Scotty and John chat about the failure of EverPix, Touch Typing, Keyboards, Trackpads and Mice
	28 Jan 2014	102: It Doesn't Get Any Slicker Than This	00:33:54
Scotty and John chat about Johns friendship with Stuart Copeland, talking about money,the changes in who writes/commissions software and using pascal to write iOS code. Scotty also reveals his plans for Reviewcast and admits his procrastination over how to deploy it while John drops a few hints on the world wide release of Findery. Finally they wish Matt Gemmell all the best for his new career and talk about a few free resources.
	28 Jan 2014	103: Good Sewardship	00:30:11
Scotty and John chat about how ridiculous the stock market is. How open source code should have good stewardship. Handling bad connectivity in mobile apps and Scotty's total failure to release.
	04 Feb 2014	104: Five Minutes Of Joy	00:33:58
Scotty and John chat about the release of Reviewcast, Paper for Facebook and GitFlow with GitHub
	11 Feb 2014	105: How The Mighty Have Fallen	00:28:56
Scotty and John chat about the future of Microsoft, 37 Signals decision to slim down it's product range (and how we should take note as indie developers), the first week of Reviewcast and NSConference
	05 Mar 2014	106: Shipping	00:31:45
Scotty and John chat about the release of RemObjects C# (A project Scotty has been working on) and the up coming shipping of Findery. The also talk about attending conferences based around other communities than your own.
	13 Mar 2014	107: World Wide Release	00:45:18
Scotty and John chat about the the world wide release of Findery and Scotty's Nexus 7.
	01 Apr 2014	108: NSConference 6	00:36:33
Scotty and John chat about their favourite moments from NSConference 6 and John's trip to Athens
	06 Apr 2014	109: Life is Development, Development is Life	00:31:51
Scotty and John chat talk about is Macworld still relevant, the challenges of inheriting old code bases and the sudden rejection of apps that use QTkit from the Mac App Store
	10 Apr 2014	110: Life Without a Ticket	00:30:08
Scotty and John chat talk the WWDC ticket lottery, the Beautiful Pixels review of Findery, Rails Girls Summer of Code and Johns first peep at Android development.
	15 Apr 2014	111: The Nelson Episode	00:34:50
Scotty and John discuss the Heartbleed bug, password security, Accessibility and wonder if there will be a 2nd round of WWDC tickets.
	23 Apr 2014	112: Support, Internationalization and Syncing	00:30:09
Scotty and John talks about implementing support conversations in your app using Helpshift. Internationalization using Tethras and Syncing using Data Abstract from RemObjects.
	30 Apr 2014	113: Sorting Socks	00:34:25
Scotty and John talk about the impending release of avTag and propose an app to sort socks before going on to talk about lighter stuff such as trademark infringement, the Apple stock split and what might happen at WWDC.
	06 May 2014	114: Fighting With The Controls	00:35:50
Scotty and John talk about the limitations of UICollectionView, NoSQL databases such as MongoDB and Google Analytics for iOS.
	13 May 2014	115: RTFM or Something	00:41:25
Scotty and John talk about John's solution to his UICollectionView problem, Scotty's discovery of geo support in MongoDB, John's new experiment with Parse and the actual, yes really, the actual release of avTag.
	21 May 2014	116: Playing With APIs	00:35:02
Scotty and John talk about Parse, the Facebook API's, embedding a UICollectionView in a UITableViewCell and the release of the NSConference 6 videos.
	28 May 2014	117: Subsidised Free	00:41:15
Scotty and John talk about the problems cloud services have being reliable and the fact that nothing in ever actually free. Also with 1 week to go there are the bound to be proven wrong WWDC predictions.
	10 Jun 2014	118: Standing In Line Was Worth It	00:37:34
Scotty and John review WWDC 14 and Altconf and discuss some of the ramifications of the announcements made.
	27 Jun 2014	119: We Didn't Record The Good Bit	00:40:03
Scotty and John talk about how good last weeks podcast that was never released was, Scotty's cloud backup problems and the future of ideas.
	01 Jul 2014	120: Move Swiftly On Or Stay Objective?	00:37:41
Scotty and John talk about Apple's new language Swift. When you should adopt it and what it means for Objective-C. They also talk about the new blogging engine running this site and Scotty brings us up to date on his backup woes with JustCloud.
	12 Jul 2014	121: Sucking Up Hoctor ...Yuk!	00:32:24
Scotty and John talk how Apple are recruiting lots of indie developers and discuss how the next phase of development for indie developers , now they are designer aware, is to become marketing and sales aware.
	17 Aug 2014	122: Dodging Trams	00:34:25
We recorded this one a few weeks ago but it's taken me ages to get round to editing and releasing it. In this episode Scotty talks to John about how his trip to Europe is going and Scotty announces RemObjects new Swift compiler for Android (called Silver) and new Mac IDE (called Fire).
	26 Aug 2014	123: Crispy on the outside but still soft on the inside.	00:34:22
Again it's a little late as I have been really busy. In this episode Scotty and John talk about how to build teams. Should Apple open an engineering office away from Cupertino and if so where. Scotty starts looking at OS X Server and potential cloud hosts for said server. (He would like to hear from people who have tried using it OS X Server or cloud OS X hosting). John shares his first experience of trying to develop an iOS 8 extension and they both talk about the current "can you make money on the app store" debate.
	11 Sep 2014	124: Sorry about the crackle.	00:39:34
After another few weeks off Scotty and Jon finally catch up and talk about this weeks Apple event and it's consequences for the community. John tells us about LemonJar, an awesome iOS console log viewer while Scotty describes his new Synology DS414 NAS and how he has gone completely mad and left GitHub. Some how Scotty also managed to screw up his audio hence this weeks title, Sorry about the crackle.
	17 Sep 2014	125: Thank God For Google	00:40:12
The problems John had getting a build of Findery ready for iOS 8 and how Google saved the day. The pros and cons of having a dedicated build machine The issue of bloated view controllers inspired by a chapter in a new book "Step By Step iOS Development" Keeping tech publishing viable How that time between major releases can feel like being in the wilderness. Documentation : is it still relevant? Why neither Scotty or John will have a shiny new iPhone this Friday
	26 Sep 2014	126: The Problem With Eight	00:35:14
In this weeks show we (Scotty & John) discuss the initial problems with iOS 8 for both users and developers. We also ask is the iPhone 6 too big? Will we see a smaller 6S next year? Will see any new Macs or iPads this year? Scotty also shares his git problems while John talks about some current debate about people baying iPhones just to ship to China. Finally Scotty announces he has left App.net. Once again this week I (Scotty) have had recording problems and whole bunch of crackle appears at around 14 minutes. I am hoping this will never happen again as I have replaced my entire entire recording system since this recording in an attempt to solve the problem.
	30 Sep 2014	127: I’m so over wasting time on iTunes Connect	00:30:13
John solves his iOS 8 problems but has relationship issues with iTunes Connect. We then go on to talk about Brent Simmons going to Omni in order to "bring in extra money" and ask can anyone actually make money on iOS?
	07 Oct 2014	128: The Range Rover vs The Rusty Old Trike	00:29:35
In this show John decides to have another good old bitch about all his problems with iOS 8. Scotty just sits and patiently listens.
	15 Oct 2014	129: Hapy Ada Lovelace Day	00:35:59
Scotty and John wish each other a happy Ada Lovelace day. John talks about the joy of using vector images in Xcode 6. Scotty tells tales from Cingleton which leads them on to talking about the concept of Maximum Viable Product, Prosumer applications and the concept of asking the question "What do people hire my app to do?".
	23 Oct 2014	130: Leaving and Multi-Tasking	00:44:37
A long show this week as Scotty and John discuss: Last weeks Apple event. John's problems when the simulator looses it's internet connection. BBEdit leaving the App Store. The inefficiencies of multi-tasking.
	31 Oct 2014	131: Leaving and Multi-Tasking	00:32:41
In this weeks show Scotty and John mainly discuss some of the processes you should go consider going through before you ever reach for "File \| New Project". They also discuss daylight saving, the Giants winning the world series, Tim Cook and great service from the Apple Developer Program..
	13 Nov 2014	132: Funded vs Self-Funded	00:28:05
In this weeks show Scotty and John once again discuss product idea validation. The differences between funded projects and self-funded projects. The new Findery API and Scotty's departure from RemObjects.
	25 Nov 2014	133: Sync Different	00:42:04
In this weeks show Drew McCormack joins Scotty and John to talk about the 2.0 release of the Ensembles Core Data Sync framework. They also take a quick detour to discuss watch kit.
	04 Dec 2014	134: It smells like Swift in here	00:24:24
In this weeks show Scotty talks about his first two weeks working full time with Swift. John talks about releasing Findery 3.0. They might also mention that NSConference 7 tickets are now on sale.
	19 Jan 2015	135: In Memory of Jordan Breeding	00:28:25
Scotty and John remember Jordan Breeding who died this week of cancer and look forward to what 2015 might bring.
	26 Jan 2015	136: Realm	01:12:02
"Realm is a mobile database: a replacement for SQLite & Core Data Realm can save you thousands of lines of code & weeks of work, and lets you craft amazing new user experiences." Well that's what it says on the website anyway. In this episode Scotty interviews JP and Alexander, two of Realm's developers, to find out what it is really all about.
	02 Feb 2015	137: Testing, Testing, Testing	00:36:18
Scotty and John talk about Xcode 6's XCTest testing framework and using TestFlight.
	11 Feb 2015	138: Using Analytics	00:36:00
Scotty and John talk about the release of Findery 3.1. They discuss how Findery collected analytics to see how people were actually using the app and then used the data they collected to redesign the apps first launch experience. Scotty whoops for joy at auto sizing UITableViewCells in iOS 8 and John shares how he developed the URL embedding experience in Findery.
	20 Feb 2015	139: Jazz Guitars and Zombies	00:39:30
Once again this week it has taken a little longer to get show out than hoped but now it is here we hope you enjoy it. This week we discuss Auto layout UITableViewCells, iOS 8.3 , Xcode 6.3 and Swift 1.2. A new report on Zombie apps where we also discover that weather apps have the lowest percentage of zombies. Scotty also explains why NSConference 7 will be the last NSConference.
	05 Mar 2015	140: If you ain't got nothin nice to say then say nothin	00:32:05
Scotty and John discuss Marcus Zarra's blog post "The Dangers of Misinformation" and how software development is different in a post google world
	09 Mar 2015	141: Time Travellers and Iterations	00:32:03
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.
	02 Jun 2016	142: We're Back, Maybe	00:32:07
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.
	08 Jun 2016	143: Architecture - MVVM / MVC	00:32:02
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.
	18 Jun 2016	144: WWDC Week 2016	00:38:44
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.
	23 Jun 2016	145: Adopting New APIs	00:30:07
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 support.
	05 Jul 2016	146: Older Developers	00:32:12
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.
	06 Jul 2016	147: Aprentices and Master Craftsmen	00:31:06
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.
	22 Jul 2016	148: Old Third Party Code	00:32:28
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.
	07 Aug 2016	149: Tips for being a better developer	00:37:48
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.
	23 Aug 2016	150: Ageism and Burnout	00:32:10
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.
	06 Sep 2016	151: Like Ships Passing in the Night	00:35:37
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.
	17 Sep 2016	152: Nap Time	00:33:24
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.
	10 Nov 2016	153: Hello Again	00:35:07
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 upcoming conferences. John' s audio set-up and what they have decided to call "The Season of Productivity"
	29 Nov 2016	154: Conferences and Appsterdam	00:33:48
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)
	10 Jan 2017	155: Unclean, Unkind & Unproductive	00:32:10
John and Scotty discuss the new download 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.
	10 Jan 2017	156 - Happy New Year	00:32:46
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.
	13 Jan 2017	157 - Mission Planning	00:31:03
John holds Scotty's feet over the fire concerning his week of "Mission Planning" as part of his 2017 goal to ship something.
	09 Feb 2017	158 - Not Cut Out To Be Indie	00:34:52
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.
	16 Feb 2017	159 - Mac 'n' Rails	00:38:23
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.
	06 Mar 2017	160 - John's Random Thing	00:30:28
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.
	13 Mar 2017	161 - Batteries Not Included	00:34:43
Scotty & John talk about hybrid desktop applications as well as their increased use of web applications . Scotty shares progress on his side projects and John continues to share his battle with internationalised text.
	18 Mar 2017	162 - Learning is like carrying a condom.	00:32:40
Scotty shares his rails deployment issues and moans about having to invest so much time in learning new things. John looks forward to his up coming trip to Athens and they both make some random WWDC predications .
	20 Apr 2017	163 - Fairly focused and minimum waffling	00:35:28
After being away for a few weeks Scotty and John are back. They discuss John's trip to Greece and Scotty shares how Reviewcast has been sherlocked by iOS 10.3. They also share some listener feedback and their WWDC ticket success. Once again we have to apologise as we have a few audio issues.
	25 Apr 2017	164 - What has Python ever done for us?	00:29:33
Scotty talks about his week fighting WKWebView and John does the same for UITableView and how he wishes he could use UICollectionView instead. John also sets off on a rant about Swift leaving Scotty to defend the changes between Swift 2.3 and 3.1. Scotty shares about 3 interviews he will be doing at the App Builders conference in Switzerland. John announces he will once again be drumming for James Dempsey and Breakpoints again this year near WWDC and Scotty reveals he will be talking at CocoaConf Next Door.
	01 May 2017	165 - Not advancing the state of the art	00:33:44
John and Scotty talk about Scottys trip to Switzerland. Johns issues with MPVolumeView and Apple's appstore affiliate program changes. Both also offer their opinions on code review and data privacy.
	08 May 2017	166 - Fun with Waffles	00:35:19
John and Scotty praise Core Animation and then go on to discuss the pros and cons of working in an office compared to to working remotely on your own. They also discuss if the terms junior and senior developer have any relevance in the modern developer world.
	16 May 2017	167 - Happy Dance	00:31:33
John's MPVolumeView soap opera continues. A discussion about up front architecture and approach and Scotty talking about what is next for him.
	28 May 2017	168 - My dads animations don't suck!	00:32:37
Scotty and John discuss what would happen if their GitHub accounts got hijacked. John also shares about some problems that happen when things are not visible and Scotty shares some highlights from UIKonf in Berlin.
	03 Jun 2017	169 - Pleasure Jolt Technology	00:35:52
The boys discuss stickers and business cards, a new Xcode utility, events they are going to attend at WWDC, iOS's pleasure jolt technology and their hopes Xcode 9.
	05 Jun 2017	170 - On the road again	00:13:27
John and Scotty record a quick episode while driving from San Francisco to San Jose for WWDC. They discuss why JSON is great, ponder about why they are not that excited to be heading to WWDC and share a listener offer.
	06 Jun 2017	171 - WWDC 2017: Day One	00:19:18
Scotty and John chat about their first day at WWDC 2017 while walking back to their accommodation.
	06 Jun 2017	172 - Day Care	00:09:55
Scotty and John discuss the day care at WWDC as the walk to day 2 of the conference.
	07 Jun 2017	173 - WWDC 2017: Day Two	00:16:31
John and Scotty discuss day 2 at WWDC 2017.
	09 Jun 2017	174 - WWDC 2017 Wrap Up	00:40:42
Scotty and John wrap up their week at WWDC by recording an episode in the Apple podcasts studio.
	18 Jun 2017	175 - It better be short it's too darn hot	00:16:30
Scotty & John talk about how they have spent the week since WWDC playing with the new shiny and implementing what they learnt.
	29 Jun 2017	176 - Easily Pleased Moron	00:34:17
Scotty and John discuss a Mac app called Kite Compositor designed to help you learn and use Core Animation. They also discuss how Scotty is getting on with his new iPad Pro and his continuing love for the Xcode 9 editor. They also discuss thew recent Scott Forstall interview about the development of the iPhone and Scotty shares about how hard it is for new small companies to work with large clients and reveals he is beginning to learn the functional language elixir.
	11 Jul 2017	177 - An accessibly functional BBQ on the roof.	00:31:28
Scotty and John record this episode while preparing a BBQ. They talk about accessibilbity , internationalization, refactoring , unit testing, code review and functional programming.
	17 Aug 2017	178 - Dude, Right On	00:33:57
Back after Scotty's vacation the boys talk about the release of the Netflix app in Hebrew. John's new adventures in Swift and Scottys disappointment with the way Realmac Software have handled the closing of Typed.com
	12 Jan 2018	179 - Bursting with Excitement	00:33:17
After a long time away the boys are back and John is so excited he has literally split open. Once they have cleaned up the mess that made they talk about the Lottie open source library, accessibility and the iPhone X
	16 Jan 2018	180 - StackView Is My Safe Word	00:24:23
The boys are back with a fragile agreement to be nice to each other. They praise stack views and slam bindings while not really caring about the recent intel chip security issues. They also discuss how submodules are still confusing and Scotty wishes he could use the Swift Package Manager.
	22 May 2018	181 - The Missing Episode	00:30:57
In this episode recorded back in Jan 2018 Scotty & John discuss Stack Views, fighting the frameworks and some of the overheads involved in having large unit test suites.
	24 May 2018	182 - StackCast with Stack View John	00:30:41
Scotty and John are back after 4 months. John gets straigh back into talking about StackViews and Scotty talks about his recent experiences with React Native.
	01 Jun 2018	183 - Announcing the Tim Cook Signature Edition?	00:32:32
Scotty and John, just like every other Apple developer podcast in the universe this week, discuss their hopes for WWDC 2018.
	08 Jun 2018	184 - WWDC Keynote & State of the Union Review	00:31:33
Scotty and John sum up their reactions to the WWDC 2018 keynote and state of the union.
	15 Jun 2018	185 - Who the Heck is Tim Smith	00:36:02
Scotty and John discuss if they feel Cocoa would be done differently if written in Swift and John shares his WWDC lab experience.
	22 Jun 2018	186 - Agenda: The Journey to an ADA	00:43:22
Scotty talks with Drew McCormack, one of the main developers behind the Apple Design Award winning app Agenda.
	28 Jun 2018	187 - Flint	00:39:54
With John still away Scotty talks with Marc Palmer, the developer behind the new open source macOS and iOS framework Flint. John also makes a brief appearance from Amsterdam.
	10 Aug 2018	188 - Therapy after React Native	00:29:17
After another extended absence, Scotty and John are back. This time they discuss Scotty's dislike of React Native and John becomes Scotty's midlife crisis therapist.
	17 Aug 2018	189 - You're important, just not to me	00:32:50
This week it is John's turn to lie on the therapy couch as he explains issues he has been having with disappearing views. However, Scotty still needs to get a few things off his chest as he reveals his laptop purchasing dilemma.
	27 Aug 2018	190 - Nothing Original Here	00:32:25
Maybe for the first time ever Scotty and John spend the entire show on follow up. John explains how he fixed his disappearing view problem while Scotty reveals his decision on a laptop and shares his experience at the Elixir conference.
	03 Sep 2018	191 - Lovely Dirt	00:32:25
Scotty and John discuss the art of good documentation and how they organize their projects. They also discuss if the probable upcoming iOS hardware announcements are likely to cause any new work for the projects they are working on which leads into a discussion on Apple's release cycle. Apologies for Scotty's bad audio in this episode.
	17 Sep 2018	192 - I Feces You Not!	00:31:37
Scotty and John discuss the September Apple event, Scotty's trip to iOSDevUK , the server side Swift framework, Vapor and John's upcoming trip to Russia.
	21 Sep 2018	193 - Poor, Sad, Pining Old Men	00:27:07
Scotty and John discuss moving to Xcode 10, John's upcoming talk he is giving in Russia and Scotty's continuing journey with Vapor.
	05 Oct 2018	194 - macOS is a partially debugged Xcode driver	00:28:38
After a couple of weeks apart Scotty and John catch up with what has been going on. John tells of his trip to London, Athens and Moscow while Scotty talks of his upcoming trips to Romania and Portland. This episode has some background noise artefacts.... sorry.
	18 Oct 2018	195 - My Mum Took My Call	00:32:23
In this episode, John gets excited about winning the Netflix hack day while Scotty shares about the talks he has been or is about to give at two conferences.
	25 Oct 2018	196 - Tiny Wins	00:28:06
In this episode Scotty shares about his trip to the Swift By Northwest conference in Portland and John shares about his problems sharing.
	19 Nov 2018	197 - Dead Polar Bear Free - Guaranteed.	00:35:06
John shares about how his Netflix Hack Day project has raised some interesting press articles. Scotty talks about trying to learn about Docker and Kubernetes to deploy server-based Swift applications. The discussion then moves on to examine the green credentials of Apples latest product announcements.
	23 Nov 2018	198 - Shipping Product vs Shipping Code	00:30:03
In this weeks episode, Scotty and John introduce Sam, the podcasts new editor, catch up on some responses to Johns newfound fame and the effects of the California fires on the tech industry before heading into a discussion about the differences between shipping code and shipping product.
	04 Dec 2018	199 - Unscripted, as usual	00:27:19
Scotty and John talk about John's new laptop, wireless debugging, self-promotion, boot camps, Apples new development program for women and the concept of it's always about who you know not what you know.
	07 Dec 2018	200 - Boring Listener(s) for over 10 years now	00:31:52
It's episode 200, and Scotty and John continue to underwhelm. This week they look back at the beginning of the podcast, talk about an app called Eyespeak and discuss Scotty's future application plans.

15 Jan 2014

101: The Touchy Business of Failure and Typing

00:29:27

Scotty and John chat about the failure of EverPix, Touch Typing, Keyboards, Trackpads and Mice

28 Jan 2014

102: It Doesn't Get Any Slicker Than This

00:33:54

Scotty and John chat about Johns friendship with Stuart Copeland, talking about money,the changes in who writes/commissions software and using pascal to write iOS code. Scotty also reveals his plans for Reviewcast and admits his procrastination over how to deploy it while John drops a few hints on the world wide release of Findery. Finally they wish Matt Gemmell all the best for his new career and talk about a few free resources.

28 Jan 2014

103: Good Sewardship

00:30:11

Scotty and John chat about how ridiculous the stock market is. How open source code should have good stewardship. Handling bad connectivity in mobile apps and Scotty's total failure to release.

04 Feb 2014

104: Five Minutes Of Joy

00:33:58

Scotty and John chat about the release of Reviewcast, Paper for Facebook and GitFlow with GitHub

11 Feb 2014

105: How The Mighty Have Fallen

00:28:56

Scotty and John chat about the future of Microsoft, 37 Signals decision to slim down it's product range (and how we should take note as indie developers), the first week of Reviewcast and NSConference

05 Mar 2014

106: Shipping

00:31:45

Scotty and John chat about the release of RemObjects C# (A project Scotty has been working on) and the up coming shipping of Findery. The also talk about attending conferences based around other communities than your own.

13 Mar 2014

107: World Wide Release

00:45:18

Scotty and John chat about the the world wide release of Findery and Scotty's Nexus 7.

01 Apr 2014

108: NSConference 6

00:36:33

Scotty and John chat about their favourite moments from NSConference 6 and John's trip to Athens

06 Apr 2014

109: Life is Development, Development is Life

00:31:51

Scotty and John chat talk about is Macworld still relevant, the challenges of inheriting old code bases and the sudden rejection of apps that use QTkit from the Mac App Store

10 Apr 2014

110: Life Without a Ticket

00:30:08

Scotty and John chat talk the WWDC ticket lottery, the Beautiful Pixels review of Findery, Rails Girls Summer of Code and Johns first peep at Android development.

15 Apr 2014

111: The Nelson Episode

00:34:50

Scotty and John discuss the Heartbleed bug, password security, Accessibility and wonder if there will be a 2nd round of WWDC tickets.

23 Apr 2014

112: Support, Internationalization and Syncing

00:30:09

Scotty and John talks about implementing support conversations in your app using Helpshift. Internationalization using Tethras and Syncing using Data Abstract from RemObjects.

30 Apr 2014

113: Sorting Socks

00:34:25

Scotty and John talk about the impending release of avTag and propose an app to sort socks before going on to talk about lighter stuff such as trademark infringement, the Apple stock split and what might happen at WWDC.

06 May 2014

114: Fighting With The Controls

00:35:50

Scotty and John talk about the limitations of UICollectionView, NoSQL databases such as MongoDB and Google Analytics for iOS.

13 May 2014

115: RTFM or Something

00:41:25

Scotty and John talk about John's solution to his UICollectionView problem, Scotty's discovery of geo support in MongoDB, John's new experiment with Parse and the actual, yes really, the actual release of avTag.

21 May 2014

116: Playing With APIs

00:35:02

Scotty and John talk about Parse, the Facebook API's, embedding a UICollectionView in a UITableViewCell and the release of the NSConference 6 videos.

28 May 2014

117: Subsidised Free

00:41:15

Scotty and John talk about the problems cloud services have being reliable and the fact that nothing in ever actually free. Also with 1 week to go there are the bound to be proven wrong WWDC predictions.

10 Jun 2014

118: Standing In Line Was Worth It

00:37:34

Scotty and John review WWDC 14 and Altconf and discuss some of the ramifications of the announcements made.

27 Jun 2014

119: We Didn't Record The Good Bit

00:40:03

Scotty and John talk about how good last weeks podcast that was never released was, Scotty's cloud backup problems and the future of ideas.

01 Jul 2014

120: Move Swiftly On Or Stay Objective?

00:37:41

Scotty and John talk about Apple's new language Swift. When you should adopt it and what it means for Objective-C. They also talk about the new blogging engine running this site and Scotty brings us up to date on his backup woes with JustCloud.

12 Jul 2014

121: Sucking Up Hoctor ...Yuk!

00:32:24

Scotty and John talk how Apple are recruiting lots of indie developers and discuss how the next phase of development for indie developers , now they are designer aware, is to become marketing and sales aware.

17 Aug 2014

122: Dodging Trams

00:34:25

We recorded this one a few weeks ago but it's taken me ages to get round to editing and releasing it.

In this episode Scotty talks to John about how his trip to Europe is going and Scotty announces RemObjects new Swift compiler for Android (called Silver) and new Mac IDE (called Fire).

26 Aug 2014

123: Crispy on the outside but still soft on the inside.

00:34:22

Again it's a little late as I have been really busy.

In this episode Scotty and John talk about how to build teams. Should Apple open an engineering office away from Cupertino and if so where.

Scotty starts looking at OS X Server and potential cloud hosts for said server. (He would like to hear from people who have tried using it OS X Server or cloud OS X hosting).

John shares his first experience of trying to develop an iOS 8 extension and they both talk about the current "can you make money on the app store" debate.

11 Sep 2014

124: Sorry about the crackle.

00:39:34

After another few weeks off Scotty and Jon finally catch up and talk about this weeks Apple event and it's consequences for the community.

John tells us about LemonJar, an awesome iOS console log viewer while Scotty describes his new Synology DS414 NAS and how he has gone completely mad and left GitHub.

Some how Scotty also managed to screw up his audio hence this weeks title, Sorry about the crackle.

17 Sep 2014

125: Thank God For Google

00:40:12

The problems John had getting a build of Findery ready for iOS 8 and how Google saved the day.

The pros and cons of having a dedicated build machine

The issue of bloated view controllers inspired by a chapter in a new book "Step By Step iOS Development"

Keeping tech publishing viable

How that time between major releases can feel like being in the wilderness.

Documentation : is it still relevant?

Why neither Scotty or John will have a shiny new iPhone this Friday

26 Sep 2014

126: The Problem With Eight

00:35:14

In this weeks show we (Scotty & John) discuss the initial problems with iOS 8 for both users and developers.
We also ask is the iPhone 6 too big? Will we see a smaller 6S next year? Will see any new Macs or iPads this year?
Scotty also shares his git problems while John talks about some current debate about people baying iPhones just to ship to China.
Finally Scotty announces he has left App.net.

Once again this week I (Scotty) have had recording problems and whole bunch of crackle appears at around 14 minutes.
I am hoping this will never happen again as I have replaced my entire entire recording system since this recording in an attempt to solve the problem.

30 Sep 2014

127: I’m so over wasting time on iTunes Connect

00:30:13

John solves his iOS 8 problems but has relationship issues with iTunes Connect. We then go on to talk about Brent Simmons going to Omni in order to "bring in extra money" and ask can anyone actually make money on iOS?

07 Oct 2014

128: The Range Rover vs The Rusty Old Trike

00:29:35

In this show John decides to have another good old bitch about all his problems with iOS 8. Scotty just sits and patiently listens.

15 Oct 2014

129: Hapy Ada Lovelace Day

00:35:59

Scotty and John wish each other a happy Ada Lovelace day. John talks about the joy of using vector images in Xcode 6. Scotty tells tales from Cingleton which leads them on to talking about the concept of Maximum Viable Product, Prosumer applications and the concept of asking the question "What do people hire my app to do?".

23 Oct 2014

130: Leaving and Multi-Tasking

00:44:37

A long show this week as Scotty and John discuss:

Last weeks Apple event.
John's problems when the simulator looses it's internet connection.
BBEdit leaving the App Store.
The inefficiencies of multi-tasking.

31 Oct 2014

131: Leaving and Multi-Tasking

00:32:41

In this weeks show Scotty and John mainly discuss some of the processes you should go consider going through before you ever reach for "File | New Project". They also discuss daylight saving, the Giants winning the world series, Tim Cook and great service from the Apple Developer Program..

13 Nov 2014

132: Funded vs Self-Funded

00:28:05

In this weeks show Scotty and John once again discuss product idea validation. The differences between funded projects and self-funded projects. The new Findery API and Scotty's departure from RemObjects.

25 Nov 2014

133: Sync Different

00:42:04

In this weeks show Drew McCormack joins Scotty and John to talk about the 2.0 release of the Ensembles Core Data Sync framework. They also take a quick detour to discuss watch kit.

04 Dec 2014

134: It smells like Swift in here

00:24:24

In this weeks show Scotty talks about his first two weeks working full time with Swift. John talks about releasing Findery 3.0. They might also mention that NSConference 7 tickets are now on sale.

19 Jan 2015

135: In Memory of Jordan Breeding

00:28:25

Scotty and John remember Jordan Breeding who died this week of cancer and look forward to what 2015 might bring.

26 Jan 2015

136: Realm

01:12:02

"Realm is a mobile database: a replacement for SQLite & Core Data Realm can save you thousands of lines of code & weeks of work, and lets you craft amazing new user experiences." Well that's what it says on the website anyway. In this episode Scotty interviews JP and Alexander, two of Realm's developers, to find out what it is really all about.

02 Feb 2015

137: Testing, Testing, Testing

00:36:18

Scotty and John talk about Xcode 6's XCTest testing framework and using TestFlight.

11 Feb 2015

138: Using Analytics

00:36:00

Scotty and John talk about the release of Findery 3.1. They discuss how Findery collected analytics to see how people were actually using the app and then used the data they collected to redesign the apps first launch experience.
Scotty whoops for joy at auto sizing UITableViewCells in iOS 8 and John shares how he developed the URL embedding experience in Findery.

20 Feb 2015

139: Jazz Guitars and Zombies

00:39:30

Once again this week it has taken a little longer to get show out than hoped but now it is here we hope you enjoy it. This week we discuss Auto layout UITableViewCells, iOS 8.3 , Xcode 6.3 and Swift 1.2.
A new report on Zombie apps where we also discover that weather apps have the lowest percentage of zombies. Scotty also explains why NSConference 7 will be the last NSConference.

05 Mar 2015

140: If you ain't got nothin nice to say then say nothin

00:32:05

Scotty and John discuss Marcus Zarra's blog post "The Dangers of Misinformation" and how software development is different in a post google world

09 Mar 2015

141: Time Travellers and Iterations

00:32:03

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.

02 Jun 2016

142: We're Back, Maybe

00:32:07

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.

08 Jun 2016

143: Architecture - MVVM / MVC

00:32:02

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.

18 Jun 2016

144: WWDC Week 2016

00:38:44

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.

23 Jun 2016

145: Adopting New APIs

00:30:07

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 support.

05 Jul 2016

146: Older Developers

00:32:12

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.

06 Jul 2016

147: Aprentices and Master Craftsmen

00:31:06

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.

22 Jul 2016

148: Old Third Party Code

00:32:28

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.

07 Aug 2016

149: Tips for being a better developer

00:37:48

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.

23 Aug 2016

150: Ageism and Burnout

00:32:10

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.

06 Sep 2016

151: Like Ships Passing in the Night

00:35:37

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.

17 Sep 2016

152: Nap Time

00:33:24

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.

10 Nov 2016

153: Hello Again

00:35:07

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 upcoming conferences. John' s audio set-up and what they have decided to call "The Season of Productivity"

29 Nov 2016

154: Conferences and Appsterdam

00:33:48

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)

10 Jan 2017

155: Unclean, Unkind & Unproductive

00:32:10

John and Scotty discuss the new download 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.

10 Jan 2017

156 - Happy New Year

00:32:46

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.

13 Jan 2017

157 - Mission Planning

00:31:03

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

09 Feb 2017

158 - Not Cut Out To Be Indie

00:34:52

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.

16 Feb 2017

159 - Mac 'n' Rails

00:38:23

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.

06 Mar 2017

160 - John's Random Thing

00:30:28

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.

13 Mar 2017

161 - Batteries Not Included

00:34:43

Scotty & John talk about hybrid desktop applications as well as their increased use of web applications . Scotty shares progress on his side projects and John continues to share his battle with internationalised text.

18 Mar 2017

162 - Learning is like carrying a condom.

00:32:40

Scotty shares his rails deployment issues and moans about having to invest so much time in learning new things. John looks forward to his up coming trip to Athens and they both make some random WWDC predications .

20 Apr 2017

163 - Fairly focused and minimum waffling

00:35:28

After being away for a few weeks Scotty and John are back. They discuss John's trip to Greece and Scotty shares how Reviewcast has been sherlocked by iOS 10.3. They also share some listener feedback and their WWDC ticket success.

Once again we have to apologise as we have a few audio issues.

25 Apr 2017

164 - What has Python ever done for us?

00:29:33

Scotty talks about his week fighting WKWebView and John does the same for UITableView and how he wishes he could use UICollectionView instead.

John also sets off on a rant about Swift leaving Scotty to defend the changes between Swift 2.3 and 3.1.

Scotty shares about 3 interviews he will be doing at the App Builders conference in Switzerland.

John announces he will once again be drumming for James Dempsey and Breakpoints again this year near WWDC and Scotty reveals he will be talking at CocoaConf Next Door.

01 May 2017

165 - Not advancing the state of the art

00:33:44

John and Scotty talk about Scottys trip to Switzerland. Johns issues with MPVolumeView and Apple's appstore affiliate program changes. Both also offer their opinions on code review and data privacy.

08 May 2017

166 - Fun with Waffles

00:35:19

John and Scotty praise Core Animation and then go on to discuss the pros and cons of working in an office compared to to working remotely on your own. They also discuss if the terms junior and senior developer have any relevance in the modern developer world.

16 May 2017

167 - Happy Dance

00:31:33

John's MPVolumeView soap opera continues. A discussion about up front architecture and approach and Scotty talking about what is next for him.

28 May 2017

168 - My dads animations don't suck!

00:32:37

Scotty and John discuss what would happen if their GitHub accounts got hijacked. John also shares about some problems that happen when things are not visible and Scotty shares some highlights from UIKonf in Berlin.

03 Jun 2017

169 - Pleasure Jolt Technology

00:35:52

The boys discuss stickers and business cards, a new Xcode utility, events they are going to attend at WWDC, iOS's pleasure jolt technology and their hopes Xcode 9.

05 Jun 2017

170 - On the road again

00:13:27

John and Scotty record a quick episode while driving from San Francisco to San Jose for WWDC. They discuss why JSON is great, ponder about why they are not that excited to be heading to WWDC and share a listener offer.

06 Jun 2017

171 - WWDC 2017: Day One

00:19:18

Scotty and John chat about their first day at WWDC 2017 while walking back to their accommodation.

06 Jun 2017

172 - Day Care

00:09:55

Scotty and John discuss the day care at WWDC as the walk to day 2 of the conference.

07 Jun 2017

173 - WWDC 2017: Day Two

00:16:31

John and Scotty discuss day 2 at WWDC 2017.

09 Jun 2017

174 - WWDC 2017 Wrap Up

00:40:42

Scotty and John wrap up their week at WWDC by recording an episode in the Apple podcasts studio.

18 Jun 2017

175 - It better be short it's too darn hot

00:16:30

Scotty & John talk about how they have spent the week since WWDC playing with the new shiny and implementing what they learnt.

29 Jun 2017

176 - Easily Pleased Moron

00:34:17

Scotty and John discuss a Mac app called Kite Compositor designed to help you learn and use Core Animation. They also discuss how Scotty is getting on with his new iPad Pro and his continuing love for the Xcode 9 editor.

They also discuss thew recent Scott Forstall interview about the development of the iPhone and Scotty shares about how hard it is for new small companies to work with large clients and reveals he is beginning to learn the functional language elixir.

11 Jul 2017

177 - An accessibly functional BBQ on the roof.

00:31:28

Scotty and John record this episode while preparing a BBQ. They talk about accessibilbity , internationalization, refactoring , unit testing, code review and functional programming.

17 Aug 2017

178 - Dude, Right On

00:33:57

Back after Scotty's vacation the boys talk about the release of the Netflix app in Hebrew. John's new adventures in Swift and Scottys disappointment with the way Realmac Software have handled the closing of Typed.com

12 Jan 2018

179 - Bursting with Excitement

00:33:17

After a long time away the boys are back and John is so excited he has literally split open. Once they have cleaned up the mess that made they talk about the Lottie open source library, accessibility and the iPhone X

16 Jan 2018

180 - StackView Is My Safe Word

00:24:23

The boys are back with a fragile agreement to be nice to each other. They praise stack views and slam bindings while not really caring about the recent intel chip security issues. They also discuss how submodules are still confusing and Scotty wishes he could use the Swift Package Manager.

22 May 2018

181 - The Missing Episode

00:30:57

In this episode recorded back in Jan 2018 Scotty & John discuss Stack Views, fighting the frameworks and some of the overheads involved in having large unit test suites.

24 May 2018

182 - StackCast with Stack View John

00:30:41

Scotty and John are back after 4 months. John gets straigh back into talking about StackViews and Scotty talks about his recent experiences with React Native.

01 Jun 2018

183 - Announcing the Tim Cook Signature Edition?

00:32:32

Scotty and John, just like every other Apple developer podcast in the universe this week, discuss their hopes for WWDC 2018.

08 Jun 2018

184 - WWDC Keynote & State of the Union Review

00:31:33

Scotty and John sum up their reactions to the WWDC 2018 keynote and state of the union.

15 Jun 2018

185 - Who the Heck is Tim Smith

00:36:02

Scotty and John discuss if they feel Cocoa would be done differently if written in Swift and John shares his WWDC lab experience.

22 Jun 2018

186 - Agenda: The Journey to an ADA

00:43:22

Scotty talks with Drew McCormack, one of the main developers behind the Apple Design Award winning app Agenda.

28 Jun 2018

187 - Flint

00:39:54

With John still away Scotty talks with Marc Palmer, the developer behind the new open source macOS and iOS framework Flint. John also makes a brief appearance from Amsterdam.

10 Aug 2018

188 - Therapy after React Native

00:29:17

After another extended absence, Scotty and John are back. This time they discuss Scotty's dislike of React Native and John becomes Scotty's midlife crisis therapist.

17 Aug 2018

189 - You're important, just not to me

00:32:50

This week it is John's turn to lie on the therapy couch as he explains issues he has been having with disappearing views. However, Scotty still needs to get a few things off his chest as he reveals his laptop purchasing dilemma.

27 Aug 2018

190 - Nothing Original Here

00:32:25

Maybe for the first time ever Scotty and John spend the entire show on follow up. John explains how he fixed his disappearing view problem while Scotty reveals his decision on a laptop and shares his experience at the Elixir conference.

03 Sep 2018

191 - Lovely Dirt

00:32:25

Scotty and John discuss the art of good documentation and how they organize their projects. They also discuss if the probable upcoming iOS hardware announcements are likely to cause any new work for the projects they are working on which leads into a discussion on Apple's release cycle. Apologies for Scotty's bad audio in this episode.

17 Sep 2018

192 - I Feces You Not!

00:31:37

Scotty and John discuss the September Apple event, Scotty's trip to iOSDevUK , the server side Swift framework, Vapor and John's upcoming trip to Russia.

21 Sep 2018

193 - Poor, Sad, Pining Old Men

00:27:07

Scotty and John discuss moving to Xcode 10, John's upcoming talk he is giving in Russia and Scotty's continuing journey with Vapor.

05 Oct 2018

194 - macOS is a partially debugged Xcode driver

00:28:38

After a couple of weeks apart Scotty and John catch up with what has been going on. John tells of his trip to London, Athens and Moscow while Scotty talks of his upcoming trips to Romania and Portland. This episode has some background noise artefacts.... sorry.

18 Oct 2018

195 - My Mum Took My Call

00:32:23

In this episode, John gets excited about winning the Netflix hack day while Scotty shares about the talks he has been or is about to give at two conferences.

25 Oct 2018

196 - Tiny Wins

00:28:06

In this episode Scotty shares about his trip to the Swift By Northwest conference in Portland and John shares about his problems sharing.

19 Nov 2018

197 - Dead Polar Bear Free - Guaranteed.

00:35:06

John shares about how his Netflix Hack Day project has raised some interesting press articles. Scotty talks about trying to learn about Docker and Kubernetes to deploy server-based Swift applications. The discussion then moves on to examine the green credentials of Apples latest product announcements.

23 Nov 2018

198 - Shipping Product vs Shipping Code

00:30:03

In this weeks episode, Scotty and John introduce Sam, the podcasts new editor, catch up on some responses to Johns newfound fame and the effects of the California fires on the tech industry before heading into a discussion about the differences between shipping code and shipping product.

04 Dec 2018

199 - Unscripted, as usual

00:27:19

Scotty and John talk about John's new laptop, wireless debugging, self-promotion, boot camps, Apples new development program for women and the concept of it's always about who you know not what you know.

07 Dec 2018

200 - Boring Listener(s) for over 10 years now

00:31:52

It's episode 200, and Scotty and John continue to underwhelm. This week they look back at the beginning of the podcast, talk about an app called Eyespeak and discuss Scotty's future application plans.

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