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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46:55

Edge Cases 88: Tuple for Your Thoughts?

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2014/04/12

Andrew Pontious talks with Wolf Rentzsch about the simplest of things, the tuple: what it is, how it is used in other languages (specifically Python), and how, in an alternate universe, it could bring some sanity to Cocoa error handling.

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42:51

Edge Cases 87: JavaScript Plus Square Brackets

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2014/04/04

Wolf Rentzsch talks to guest cohost Gus Mueller about Cocoa Script. An evolution of his earlier effort, JSTalk, Cocoa Script is Gus's sane Mac app scripting alternative to AppleScript, based on JavaScript with Objective-C-style extensions.

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54:58

Edge Cases 86: Andrew’s Blogroll in the Post-Blog Era

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2014/03/29

Andrew Pontious talks with Wolf Rentzsch about the developer blogs he follows via RSS: the ones that have died/gone fallow/transformed, the ones he's added recently, and the ones that seem to be trying to replicate Apple's tutorials and documentation.

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46:30

Edge Cases 85: A Fan of Ravioli Code

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2014/03/23

Wolf Rentzsch talks to Andrew Pontious about programming pasta: disorganized "spaghetti" code, multi-layered "lasagna" code, and conceptually-separated "ravioli" code (his favorite). Bonus: new GitHub project!

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50:42

Edge Cases 84: A Couple of Maxims, a Couple of Aphorisms

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2014/03/15

Andrew Pontious talks to Wolf Rentzsch about the three maxims he gleaned from Evan Doll’s interview on the Debug podcast: code is a liability, ship the right bugs, and (paraphrased) don’t impose unneeded project methodologies.

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47:54

Edge Cases 83: Floating Point Numbers Are a Leaky...

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2014/03/08

Wolf Rentzsch talks to Andrew Pontious about floating point numbers: how they work, why they're weird, and when you definitely shouldn't use them (hint: mo money mo problems).

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43:32

Edge Cases 82: Asset Catalogs

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2014/03/01

Andrew Pontious stumps Wolf Rentzsch not once, but repeatedly, by talking about asset catalogs, new in Xcode 5. But in turn *he* is stumped attempting to backport them to earlier OSes.

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35:58

Edge Cases 81: The Only Cool Thing About PDF

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2014/02/23

Wolf Rentzsch tries to keep up with Andrew "The Joneses" Pontious and introduces JRPDFLabel, his new…*innovative* project that allow you to use custom fonts in Interface Builder without having to bundle the entire font with your Mac app.

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40:45

Edge Cases 80: Xcode Templates

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2014/02/15

Andrew Pontious, with guest cohost Josh Johnson, talks about Xcode project and file templates.

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38:21

Edge Cases 79: ClickToFlash: Behind the Music

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2014/02/08

Wolf Rentzsch talks to Andrew Pontious about how he unexpectedly came to lead the popular and award-winning Safari plugin ClickToFlash, and how, after a wild ride, the project both ended and continued on.

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48:08

Edge Cases 78: Indexing with Clang

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2014/02/02

Andrew Pontious describes to Wolf Rentzsch his efforts to use libclang to index his Xcode projects, using his new (and barely functional) Chime framework.

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43:37

Edge Cases 77: Prototype-Based Programming

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2014/01/25

Wolf Rentzsch talks to Andrew Pontious about his *other* favorite thing, prototype-based programming, and examples of it such as Self, NewtonScript, Io, and, yes, JavaScript. Plus: the dunder is back!

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42:59

Edge Cases 76: Let's Try iCloud Syncing

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2014/01/18

Andrew Pontious talks with Wolf Rentzsch about the cool aspects and the frustrating aspects of Apple's iCloud document syncing. Plus: Wolf disses HyperCard!

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46:12

Edge Cases 75: A Few of My Favorite Things

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2014/01/11

Wolf Rentzsch talks to Andrew Pontious about two of his favorite things, live development objects and Code Bubbles. Plus: revisiting Microsoft's Singularity.

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45:42

Edge Cases 74: Accessibility

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2013/12/28

Andrew Pontious along with Wolf Rentzsch delves into Apple's accessibility APIs for iOS.

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47:43

Edge Cases 73: Sequential Consistency

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2013/12/22

Wolf Rentzsch talks to Andrew Pontious about sequential consistency and memory models by dressing up Andrew as a Processor and himself as Main Memory. Special involuntary cameo by Daniel Jalkut the Cache (not really).

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47:37

Edge Cases 72: It's Not Just Code, It's Unicode

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2013/12/13

Andrew Pontious talks hexy to Wolf Rentzsch by going on at length about Unicode: its design, its planes (astral and otherwise), and its UTF-16 and UTF-8 encodings. Plus: backup followup.

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55:47

Edge Cases 71: Libraries vs Collaborating Objects

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2013/12/08

Wolf Rentzsch talks to Andrew Pontious about software interface design, using jQuery's Ajax functionality as an example of a "library" API style and NSURLConnection as an example of a "collaborating objects" API style. Plus: AFNetworking, and NSURLSession

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45:40

Edge Cases 70: Android Is Like Moving to France

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2013/11/23

Andrew Pontious talks with Wolf Rentzsch about taking the very first steps to try to develop for Android, including why he's thinking about it, why companies like Eclipse even if he doesn't, and why he had to turn to Stack Overflow almost immediately.

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54:20

Edge Cases 69: The Time Machine Worst-Case Scenario

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2013/11/16

Wolf Rentzsch talks to Andrew Pontious about backup. Topics include Time Machine, the sadness of Time Capsule, SuperDuper, clonedrive (Wolf's own software), CrashPlan, Backblaze, and Arq.

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