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Edge Cases

Andrew Pontious and Wolf Rentzsch

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

technology software how-to

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46:00

Edge Cases 48: I Don't Finish the Books

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2013/05/04

Andrew Pontious talks with Wolf Rentzsch about the resources we use as developers to learn: books, Stack Overflow, Twitter, blogs, and, yes, conferences like WWDC.

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51:17

Edge Cases 47: Slinging CGRects Around

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2013/04/27

Wolf Rentzsch continues the conversation with Andrew Pontious about Auto Layout: its yays and its nays, Wolf's inevitable new GitHub projects to ease its usage, and alternatives such as ReactiveCocoaLayout.

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47:25

Edge Cases 46: Rectangles on a String

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2013/04/20

Andrew Pontious talks with Wolf Rentzsch about Auto Layout from the newbie's perspective. In this, he's aided by Erica Sadun's book iOS Auto Layout Demystified. (Interface Builder winds up being less helpful.)

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50:10

Edge Cases 45: One Little Package of Hate

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2013/04/13

Wolf Rentzsch talks with Andrew Pontious about how OS X's installer technology is dangerous, complicated, obsolete, under-documented, and feature-poor.

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37:47

Edge Cases 44: Putting Your Scent on the Code

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2013/04/06

Andrew Pontious talks with Wolf Rentzsch about editor round-tripping: taking source code with one format, such as K&R-style braces, converting it losslessly to another format, and back. Are the trade-offs worth it?

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49:40

Edge Cases 43: Don't Expect Anything To Work

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2013/03/30

Kyle Sluder, who works on OmniOutliner at The Omni Group, talks to Wolf Rentzsch about disassembling, Core Animation, KVO, Auto Layout and more.

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47:22

Edge Cases 42: In a UI Tarpit

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2013/03/24

Andrew Pontious starts talking with Wolf Rentzsch about why native application UIs are better than website UIs, but ends up talking about why there are no ads in most iOS apps.

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53:46

Edge Cases 41: The Tofu Scale

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2013/03/16

Wolf Rentzsch talks with Andrew Pontious about philosophical and practical aspects of branching in version control.

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48:17

Edge Cases 40: Heroic Measures

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2013/03/09

Andrew Pontious talks with Wolf Rentzsch about how software developers often have to go "above and beyond" as part of their work.

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48:11

Edge Cases 39: Productivity Porn

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2013/03/02

Wolf Rentzsch talks with Andrew Pontious about his favorite Getting Things Done-oriented applications, such as OmniFocus, TaskPaper, and a few surprises. Plus: Charlie's Angels villains.

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43:09

Edge Cases 38: A Programmer and a Puzzler

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2013/02/23

Andrew Pontious along with Wolf Rentzsch talks about Andrew's experiences with text adventure games; a bit of their history, what it was like to develop them, and his eventual deal-breaking frustration with puzzles.

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47:01

Edge Cases 37: In the Tree of Your TODO List

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2013/02/16

Wolf Rentzsch, a GTD cultist, and Andrew Pontious, who's GTD-curious, talk about Getting Things Done in their fluffiest episode yet.

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56:00

Edge Cases 36: A Zeno's Paradox of Authentication

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2013/02/09

Wolf Rentzsch talks to Andrew Pontious about practical OAuth: how it works, tips and tricks about how to integrate it into your apps, and the ups and downs of version 2.0.

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42:44

Edge Cases 35: Their Job Is to Break It

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2013/02/03

Andrew Pontious, with second guest cohost Peter Hosey, talks about the strange and wacky world of quality assurance engineers.

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57:50

Edge Cases 34: Xcode, I Want to Get Organized!

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2013/01/27

Andrew Pontious, accompanied by Wolf Rentzsch, lets loose in this extra-long episode with his second Xcode 4 rant, this time focusing on Xcode's overstuffed Organizer window.

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41:10

Edge Cases 33: Flattry Will Get You Everywhere

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2013/01/19

Wolf Rentzsch along with Andrew Pontious uses the Swedish micropayment service Flattr as an excuse to talk about inter-application communication yet again as well as introduce Compliment, his app to make it easier for other apps to integrate with Flattr.

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37:34

Edge Cases 32: The Case Against Xcode Plugins

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2013/01/12

Andrew Pontious covers with Wolf Rentzsch the logic behind why Apple won't introduce a public Xcode plugin architecture. Plus: how Mike Lee solved the halting problem.

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46:07

Edge Cases 31: The Turing Frights

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2013/01/05

Wolf Rentzsch talks with Andrew Pontious about Microsoft's research OS, Singularity, which breaks through the stagnation of current operatings systems with innovative use of static analysis, communication channel contracts, and more.

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47:17

Edge Cases 30: One Ring to Cocoa-Bind Them All

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2012/12/08

Andrew Pontious explores with Wolf Rentzsch key-value coding, key-value observing, and Cocoa Bindings: what's interesting about them, and how they can be a stack of suck. And remember: holiday break till January!

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54:40

Edge Cases 29: Squirting Code Across Address Spaces

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2012/12/02

Wolf Rentzsch talks with Andrew Pontious about mach_override (his project for dynamically overriding functions) and mach_inject (his project for cross-process code execution). You'll never guess who uses them!

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