PODCAST

Edge Cases

Andrew Pontious and Wolf Rentzsch

A weekly podcast about (mostly Apple-related) software development

technology software how-to

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41:21

Edge Cases 28: The Plumber's Guide to Blocks

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2012/11/24

Andrew Pontious talks with Wolf Rentzsch about blocks: their history, why they're weird, and why Apple should have just gone ahead and made them an Objective-C API.

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55:49

Edge Cases 27: Where mogenerator Really Picks It Up

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2012/11/18

Wolf Rentzsch talks with Andrew Pontious about his popular open source Core Data code generation tool, mogenerator. Plus: why Wolf may or may not be Batman.

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45:08

Edge Cases 26: You Can't Run a Script to Test Feel

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2012/11/10

Andrew Pontious talks with Wolf Rentzsch about automated tests for Cocoa applications and the very particular times when he finds them useful. (Hint: not ongoing maintenance.)

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51:10

Edge Cases 25: We're Just Dot-J, Baby

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2012/11/02

Wolf Rentzsch enthuses (and Andrew Pontious mostly listens) about Cappuccino, an advanced Web framework for making desktop-class web applications, essentially "Cocoa for the Web", with all the power and pitfalls that entails. Objective-J, anyone?

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43:52

Edge Cases 24: Make Xibs Look Good

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2012/10/26

Andrew Pontious spends the entire episode with Wolf Rentzsch on followup, including someone trying AppCode based on his "recommendation" and a somewhat deeper, less rosy look at storyboards.

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41:46

Edge Cases 23: The Elevator Pitch for Design by Contract

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2012/10/20

Wolf Rentzsch uses a simple C function example with Andrew Pontious to demonstrate (in record time!) Bertrand Meyer's Design by Contract, a cheap way to drastically improve your software quality. Could clang be the key to implementing it in Objective-C?

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52:01

Edge Cases 22: Nibs and Xibs and Storyboards, O My

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2012/10/13

Andrew Pontious explores with Wolf Rentzsch the history of resources on Mac OS, starting with resource forks and ResEdit and ending with the new "storyboard" file format, which receives a shocking thumbs up! Afterwards, Wolf thinks about diffing issues.

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37:40

Edge Cases 21: When the Bits Hit the Platter

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2012/10/05

Wolf Rentzsch talks with Andrew Pontious about data encoding and file formats, such as C structs, NSKeyedArchiver, QuickTime, ASN.1, plists, and JSON, as a way to introduce his own new untyped binary format, Lich. Plus: way too much MacGyver.

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41:06

Edge Cases 20: The Tabs and Spaces of Outrageous Fortune

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2012/09/29

Andrew Pontious, with Wolf Rentzsch, asks the question developers ask when they have nothing else to talk about: tabs vs spaces? Also: braces styles, UniversalIndentGUI, and how Xcode handles indent levels.

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51:21

Edge Cases 19: In the Magical World of Threads

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2012/09/21

Wolf Rentzsch talks with Andrew Pontious about concurrency (with the emphasis on "con"), from the earliest Mac SMP machines to the latest software advances such as Actors.

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50:04

Edge Cases 18: Port the Present into the Past

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2012/09/15

Wolf Rentzsch talks with Andrew Pontious about obsolescence. Do older machines really have to be cut off from the latest OS and application updates? Does higher-level software design (and open source data formats) help or hurt?

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50:40

Edge Cases 17: Then, You're Just Writing C++

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2012/09/09

Andrew Pontious tries with guest cohost Uli Kusterer to make the case that C++ is a perfectly acceptable language for Objective-C developers to use under certain circumstances.

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41:38

Edge Cases 16: Talk Like a Developer

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2012/09/02

Andrew Pontious uses his new microphone to communicate with Wolf Rentzsch about...the ways developers communicate: in interviews, on the job, and on the Internet.

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38:38

Edge Cases 15: Brave New World of Interprocess...

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2012/08/24

Wolf Rentzsch follows up with Andrew Pontious about AppleScript, Apple events, appscript, Distributed Objects, distributed computing, JSTalk, and sandboxing's IPC implications.

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39:21

Edge Cases 14: Maintenance and the Cocoa Slide

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2012/08/19

Andrew Pontious explains with Wolf Rentzsch some of his maintenance best practices, so that you can perform your own "slide" with the greatest of ease. (Andrew's audio drops occasionally throughout. Sorry, everyone!)

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52:49

Edge Cases 13: AppleScript's Glorious Failure

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2012/08/11

Wolf Rentzsch talks with Andrew Pontious about why AppleScript is a really awesome language and why it's basically dead. (And why you should use JSTalk instead.)

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52:30

Edge Cases 12: A Little Slice of Windows in My IDE

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2012/08/04

Andrew Pontious talks with Wolf Rentzsch about the JetBrains AppCode IDE, which you can use instead of Xcode to write your iOS apps.

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52:17

Edge Cases 11: Pop Software

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2012/07/29

Wolf Rentzsch talks with Andrew Pontious about Mac App Store irrelevance, the Sparrow acquisition, and so-called "pop software" and its impact upon independent software developer livelihoods.

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39:19

Edge Cases 10: Not a Free-Range Developer

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2012/07/21

Andrew Pontious explores with Wolf Rentzsch why and for how long you should stay in the "veal pen", whether it's as a Twitter client developer or an iOS/Mac developer. Bonus: the cat noises are back!

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01:03:05

Edge Cases 9: Alien Reference Counting

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2012/07/14

Wolf Rentzsch enumerates with Andrew Pontious the 5 benefits and 6 issues he sees with Apple's new Automatic Retain Count system in the longest, most anticipated episode yet!

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