Identical Cousins

Identical Cousins

By Brent and Michael SimmonsTechnologyTech News
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Identical Cousins episodes

  • Identical Cousins 4: The Conference Theory

    Recorded 8 Oct. 2012.

    We talk about conferences — why you should go and why you should speak.

    Some conferences we mention:

    • NSConference
    • CocoaConf
    • Çingleton

      • We didn’t mention one of my favorites, but we’ll link to it anyway: 360iDev. Also, SecondConf is reputed to be awesome.

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      37 min
    • Identical Cousins 3: UI Changes in iOS 6

      “It looks like something that aliens would have used on Barney Hill.”

      Some pull-to-refresh links:

      • Prior Art for Pull-to-Refresh?
    • One More Thing Podcast episide with Loren Brichter
    • TechCrunch on the pull-to-refresh patent

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      Recorded 21 Sep. 2012.

      1 hr 1 min
    • Identical Cousins 2: Everything Is User Experience

      Recorded 6 Sep. 2012.

      Brent and Michael talk about performance, first-run experiences, registration certificates, and RIM’s 10K guarantee.

      Also: Brent will be speaking at CocoaConf in Portland in October.

      Links:

      • BlackBerry 10K Developer Commitment
      • Rogue Amoeba
      • Flying Meat (Gus Mueller)
      • CocoaConf

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        Note: this podcast isn’t on the iTunes store yet. We had to update our CMS to output iTunes metadata. Blah blah blah. Done. We’ll submit this week.

        56 min
      • Identical Cousins 1: Software Is Hard

        Recorded 15 Aug. 2012.

        Fair warning: it’s going to take a few episodes before we’re good at this. We even forget the basics — like introducing ourselves.

        But still, it was totally fun to do, so we’ll keep going. :)

        Some things mentioned on the podcast:

        • How hard it is for Brent to add a contact to his iPhone
        • Open Source TextMate
        • Tech debt
        • Dave Winer
        • The Frontier kernel

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          36 min

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        Brent and Michael Simmons make Mac and iOS apps — except when they just talk about making apps. Like on this podcast.