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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42:38

Edge Cases 68: Improve Your App's Performance with...

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2013/11/09

Andrew Pontious talks with Wolf Rentzsch about performance, including the difference ways to define performance improvements, techniques Andrew himself has used, and tips from Apple's WWDC sessions. Plus: bcrypt is soooo 2008.

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32:55

Edge Cases 67: Fillers and Spillers

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2013/11/01

Wolf Rentzsch talks to Andrew Pontious about his Çingleton 3 presentation, "Fillers and Spillers": his terms for those who advance human progress (such as scientist, engineers, and artists) and those who propagate those advancements to everyone else.

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50:38

Edge Cases 66: The Language of Cross-Platform...

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2013/10/26

Andrew Pontious talks with Wolf Rentzsch about the challenges of cross-platform development, including Mac vs. Windows, OS X vs. iOS, and iOS 6 vs. iOS 7.

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55:11

Edge Cases 65: Threads Are Interesting

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2013/10/13

Wolf Rentzsch talks to Andrew Pontious about threads, explaining what they are, giving them a robust defense, and providing hints about his sordid concurrency past. (Spoiler: GCD wins in the end.)

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48:45

Edge Cases 64: Slobbering over Xcode 5 Auto Layout

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2013/10/06

Andrew Pontious tells Wolf Rentzsch about the changes in Xcode 5, including a more iOS-like appearance, expanded SCM functionality, new unit test UI, and most importantly, a very welcome overhaul of Interface Builder's Auto Layout support.

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49:38

Edge Cases 63: ARM Is Kind of Like Dark Matter

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2013/09/28

Wolf Rentzsch talks to Andrew Pontious about ARM64: its history, its advantages, and its surprisingly unsurprising ISA (instruction set architecture).

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49:11

Edge Cases 62: Primal Debugging Systems

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2013/08/25

Andrew Pontious talks with Wolf Rentzsch about debugging: the oddity of combining a programmer's creation role with mystery solving, debugging difficulty levels, and the tools we use, including Instruments and lldb. Plus: git bisect.

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37:59

Edge Cases 61: A Cryptography Tourist

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2013/08/17

Wolf Rentzsch tries to scare Andrew Pontious with all the decisions you're likely to get wrong when implementing a cryptographic system and gives some advice on how to cope. (To skip the beginning infodump, start at 7:50.)

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48:36

Edge Cases 60: When You're New to a Codebase

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2013/08/10

Andrew Pontious covers with Wolf Rentzsch three aspects of learning the source code of an unfamiliar project: teaching someone else your codebase, learning a new codebase yourself, and the extra steps Andrew takes.

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54:02

Edge Cases 59: If You're a File System Geek

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2013/08/03

Wolf Rentzsch talks with Andrew Pontious about the past, present, and future of file systems, from MFS to ZFS and beyond. Plus, how Apple could advance the state of the art with SSDs.

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49:56

Edge Cases 58: Testing Whether You Believe in Fairies

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2013/07/27

Andrew Pontious talks about interviewing for a job as a developer with Wolf Rentzsch: linked lists, trick questions, big-O notation, and more.

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47:08

Edge Cases 57: Both Praise and Condemn Keychain

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2013/07/20

Wolf Rentzsch talks with Andrew Pontious about the upsides and downsides as well as the history of OS X's (and now iOS's) Keychain.

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42:01

Edge Cases 56: A Client of TestFlight

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2013/07/13

Andrew Pontious goes over with Wolf Rentzsch the basics of Apple's code signing (or co-designing) infrastructure and how they help (or hinder) beta-testing distribution service TestFlight.

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53:29

Edge Cases 55: The Pragmatic and the Academic

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2013/07/06

Wolf Rentzsch talks with Andrew Pontious about the pros and cons of two routes to programming knowledge: the self-taught way (employed by both hosts), and the top-down way of a computer science degree.

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43:56

Edge Cases 54: No Carbon This Time Around

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2013/06/29

Andrew Pontious talks with Wolf Rentzsch about the risks and burdens developers will face updating their apps for iOS 7.

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35:30

Edge Cases 53: The Poetry of Donald Rumsfeld

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2013/06/21

Wolf Rentzsch talks about software estimation with Andrew Pontious and why he's given up even trying (hint: he found something that works better).

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40:35

Edge Cases 52: The iOS Version of Cocoa Bindings

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2013/06/01

Andrew Pontious talks with Wolf Rentzsch about the odd duck that is NSFetchedResultsController, as well as a bunch of Core Data issues, such as using SUBQUERY. Reminder: no podcast next week, due to WWDC.

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43:34

Edge Cases 51: Your Logging System Isn't Advanced Enough

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2013/05/25

Wolf Rentzsch continues the conversation about logging with Andrew Pontious, including a spirited debate on the merits of levels, his own logging package JRLog, and Cocoa Lumberjack.

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42:33

Edge Cases 50: The Graffiti of the Software...

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2013/05/18

Andrew Pontious talks about logging with Wolf Rentzsch, including Xcode breakpoint actions and the Apple System Log. Plus: lots of CocoaPods followup, and a surprise ending!

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44:03

Edge Cases 49: I Do Care a Lot About Dependencies

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2013/05/11

Wolf Rentzsch talks with Andrew Pontious about the upsides and downsides of CocoaPods, as well as other techniques for sharing code and tracking dependencies between projects.

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