Edge Cases

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.

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.

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.

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!

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.

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).

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.

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.

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

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.