The iDeveloper Podcast

This week John talks his recent work on refreshing portions of a Collection View, his mastery of JavaScript and a follow up to his work on protocol compliance and inheritance. While Scotty talks barfing (or bathing?) with some data migration, the difficulties of testing with small amounts of data when users can have huge amounts of data with very little storage space, also shares some feedback on...

This week the boys talk John’s “possible” direct effect on the Netflix stock price as well as his Jedi teaching over some new members to his team. Also the first user responses from the MoneyWell Beta release with some expected problems and some not so expected problems. Also a check in on how the M1's have been holding up to real world work and a hopeful look at what Apple could release in their...

This week the boys talk sorting objects with optional properties, protocol compliance and inheritance, 1960's British Dramas, another look at SGLite toolkit, GRDB, problems with notarising MoneyWell for the Beta release, the changing environment of borderless culture appreciation. GRDB | GitHub To Sir, With Love | Wikipedia Two segments from John's talk at Appsterdam. First is about too many notes...

This week the boys talk the ever evolving remote workplace, and the best ways of communicating and emulating an office environment. John talks his recent frustration with debugging and context switching as a UI developer to managing various API's, initially setting up an Xcode Project and problems with Swift Packages. Scotty talks the public release of the MoneyWell 3.5 beta. MoneyWell 3.5 Public...

This week the boys talk their hopes and dreams for whats to come in 2022. For John it's the revival and continuation of some old tech, for Scotty it's the beta release of MoneyWell. The boys also talk 'The Ocean Cleanup', side projects, a refreshed attitude towards the future of MoneyWell, Apples delayed release of SharePlay. Paul Hawken's new book, Regeneration The Ocean Cleanup Revenue Cat

This week the boys sum up this past year by talking; their holiday plans to their end-of-year wisdoms, their last weeks work, with John working with different designs using real data and Scotty with the release of the MoneyWell beta. John also hopes to get an extra special listener by talking his recent work with JavaScript and Node. Scotty also talks his further research into the world of multi-p...

This week the boys talk; Scotty's off-grid vacation, the challenges of switching off during vacation, and the inevitable mountain of emails upon return; John's pre-holiday-break ships, including Netflix's Fast Laughs feature; the work of Dave Winer; and the imminent MoneyWell beta program.

This week, being Turkey(or Duck) Day, the boys share what they're thankful for this year. Scotty talks his latest public PR, MacBook Mix-Up and Apple Support Shenanigans. John talks his recent 6-year Netflix anniversary and the experiences that led to it, especially the feedback from listeners and peers. Implementing Accessibility Custom Actions Ko-Fi, The Tip Platform Music John's Thankful For |...

This week the boys talk John's further work with VoiceOver and the way that accessibility is experienced both by the end-user and by the test engineers. Scotty talks the frustrations that come with making the first PR against a new project. Icelandverse | YouTube Eurovision: The Story of Fire Saga Clip | Netflix

This week the boys continue their discussion on the new M1 Macbooks, with John discovering some more issues with RAM and Scotty talks the major decisions being made with his latest business expenditure, Silver or Space Grey? John talks his battle of the browsers after having troubles with the ever-hungry for RAM Chrome, the environmental impact of streaming video, the importance of alt-tags for im...

This week John reveals his secret, somewhat, compact package and reviews his first week of Apple M1 ownership, from initial difficulties in data transfer and unexpected high RAM usage to blistering Xcode speeds. Scotty talks his work on migrations and how to deal with time and project management with multiple projects on the go at once.

The boys discuss yesterday's Apple event, their purchases, and their thoughts on the continued M1 development and the complete lack of options for monitors. John talks his continued work on accessibility custom actions. Scotty talks his work on transitioning between two systems, what to transition, and what to leave behind.

This week the boys also touch on the upcoming Apple event and the high ratio of job satisfaction within the industry. Scotty shares his week of working on a command line tool and his experience with the swift argument parser. John talks about his ever-growing dynamic component library and its uses within adaptive layouts, especially his recent work on volume control. Swift Argument Parser | GitHub

This week the boys talk John's recent musical accomplishments and how he's been resolving constraints with UIButtons when the size of the content is dynamic. Scotty talks his recent work on a client's feature set and the inheritance decisions that come with an existing codebase. One More Thing by James Dempsey & The Breakpoints | Apple Music One More Thing by James Dempsey & The Breakpoint...

Continuing on from Monday's episode, John reveals the thrilling conclusion to his discussion on his dynamic icon button class. Scotty takes a nostalgic look back at the business and development environments of Mac apps and offers some in-home-office workout tips. Twitter | Drew McCormack

With a, possibly, un-surprising un-intentional two-parter, we'll let you guess the culprit. John further talks his work on reusable components, also a rather surprising sticking point in some localisation optimisation.

This week the boys share their, very close to the line, pre-Apple event thoughts. John continues his work on reusable components within winning tests, especially in regards to accessibility and dynamic layout. While Scotty continues his investigations into different cross-platform technologies.

With a positive start this week, John talks some excitement with a new blank slate project he's working on and the pros and cons of open sourcing. Scotty talks his week of squashing a couple of little bugs and checking off down the to-do list, and investigates the world of cross-platform apps, especially any alternatives to Electron. Liz Phair song Glory, from the album Exile in Guyville Exile in...

Using his background of language and indie development, John talks the work of localisation, especially indie localisation tools, and the difference between linguistically correct and culturally correct. Scotty shares the extent of his week of primarily client work, with the coordination of some changes for an upcoming 'thing'. Lokalise | Localisation Platform for iOS

Back with some post-vacation clarity, John shares a bug fix (with the help of the Customer Care Team) with voice control when using a custom UIButton class. While Scotty talks his unintentional internet blackout, the lack of cellular service, and how modern apps have developed an evergrowing internet connection addiction. Michael Fey 1Password Blog Post on Electron Example of 1Password Pushback Cl...

Starting with some swift ridicule this week John attempts to absolve himself from some small indiscretions from last week and talks the latest update to Preferred Content Size support within Netflix. Scotty talks dealing with background errors and how to present them in the UI and the difficulty in creating errors on the ensembles based MoneyWell sync. Netflix iOS App Dynamic Cell Size All About D...

Celebrating the ripe old age of 300 episodes, this week the boys reminisce on past show titles and attempt to guess the content of the episode. John talks implementing Apple's new SharePlay and Group Activities APIs in his card-based side project and shares his cheat to learning new APIs. Scotty talks the honesty behind remote working, from billing a client to staying on task for personal projects...

This week the boys read some viewer mail, talk the importance of real human QA people especially in situations where real devices are needed for testing, the nuances of working on larger apps with larger teams, MoneyWell Migration and the synchronisation of attachments and the possible endless cycle of continuously upping the SwfitLint Cyclomatic Complexity level.

With John coming live from the east coast and Italian breakdowns, this week the boys talk ever-changing work conditions, from working remotely to the dynamics of works hours and time zones. John talks his week of heavy meetings and presentations around accessibility and inclusion. Scotty shares his week of being back on getting sync back into MoneyWell and diving into the weeds with the Xcode 13 b...

This week the boys talk the possible return to a new 'normal' and how companies like Apple might evolve, especially with the future of WWDC. Johns work on dynamically sized cells for low vision users and the evolution of accessibility. Scotty shares his client work hiatus to better focus on MoneyWell. James Dempsey & The Breakpoints: Write To The Metal Liki Song Rehearsal Liki Song Crowd Singa...