The iDeveloper Podcast

John becomes a full stack developer and shares his experience with nodeJS and Visual Studio Code. Scotty shared his week setting up a Mac Mini build server to run Xcode bots. Scotty also looks forward to his 100km charity run this weekend.

Scotty and John discuss John's rapid rise to stardom with a chain of hack day victories as well as debating should people jump into Swift UI or wait for it to settle as many people did with Swift.

John sings, but don't let that put you off as it doesn't last long. John continues to give Stack Views high praise, and the boys discuss SwiftUI beta two. Scotty lets loose on the therapy couch about his troubles in making any technology decisions for the next MoneyWell release.

One week on Scotty and John discuss their reactions and theories about what all the things announced at WWDC are going to mean over the next year.

Scotty and John discuss all that was announced at WWDC and their initial reactions on how it will all affect them.

John talks about his hack day success and shares his tips and tricks on how to be successful at hack day events. Scotty explains how Marzipan could alter the approach to the next version of MoneyWell.

Scotty and John continue their conversation on preparing a presentation, presentation software and accessibility issues and concerns. Scotty talks a little about his new contract while John starts to get excited by the next Netflix hack day. There is also a special guest appearance from Amy the dog.

Scotty and John discuss horrible hardware UX, the different ways to prepare a conference talk and how syncing is far more than just code that syncs data.

After a break away from the mic (because John couldn’t find his) the boys are back. Other than reminiscing over the 80’s they discuss team coding standards, focusing on the needs of new users vs existing users and preparing for WWDC.

Scotty & John discuss communication problems, the importance of acknowledging problems and objections when trying to sell to people and how bad indie developers often are at selling and marketing. John also shares how he designs and documents his classes.

Scotty & John discuss hard choices when designing app on-boarding and Johns colossal oversight.

John updates us on how there were a few problems with his efficient xib loading solution and Scotty shares how he is re-writing the ensembles server and making allowances for Wasabi / S3 differences. John also reports on his sons robotic, and Scotty makes a personal appeal for sponsorship to support his run to raise money for MS research.

John talks about his new found fame and a vegetarian free bug bash. Scotty totally forgets what he said he wanted to talk about so discusses the problems indie developers can encounter when they find it hard to set their own boundaries.

Scotty shares how he recently had some sync issue with an app he uses and how the tech support experience trying to get it resolved has made him totally reconsider how he is going to implement sync in MoneyWell. John also shares about his visit to the Steve Jobs theatre for an Apple shareholders meeting.

John talks in depth about optimizing the loading of xib files and Scotty discusses the decision to rewrite 30% of MoneyWell.

The week John continues his accessibility campaign both in the world of software and the physical world while Scotty goes on a crusade to rid MoneyWell of warnings. They also discuss how Marzipan might affect future macOS development.

This week the boys talk about Scotty's restored relationship with Objective-C, a hatred of bindings, broken iPhone X screens and bowing.

John talks about how important it is to have people "critique" your work. Scotty talks about how compiling against newer SDK's is causing issues and his hatred of bindings in macOS and his database syncing decision dilemmas. John also gets to brag about new features in the Netflix iOS app.

Scotty and John discuss Diligent Robot's acquisition of the app MoneyWell and John talks about how he has been messing things up and teaching kids in a robotics class that screwing up is alright.

In this last show for 2018, Scotty and John discuss the highlights of their year and what they are looking forward to next year.

Scotty and John talk about the recently released video of John's talk from Moscow as well as discussing the general challenges of giving conference talks in a culture that is not your own.

It's episode 200, and Scotty and John continue to underwhelm. This week they look back at the beginning of the podcast, talk about an app called Eyespeak and discuss Scotty's future application plans.

Scotty and John talk about John's new laptop, wireless debugging, self-promotion, boot camps, Apples new development program for women and the concept of it's always about who you know not what you know.

In this weeks episode, Scotty and John introduce Sam, the podcasts new editor, catch up on some responses to Johns newfound fame and the effects of the California fires on the tech industry before heading into a discussion about the differences between shipping code and shipping product.

John shares about how his Netflix Hack Day project has raised some interesting press articles. Scotty talks about trying to learn about Docker and Kubernetes to deploy server-based Swift applications. The discussion then moves on to examine the green credentials of Apples latest product announcements.