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The panelists talk to Jared Richardson about Technical and Credit Card Debt.

The panelists talk to Jonas Budelmann about The Masonry Pod.

The panelists talk about offline authentication with Peter Kananen.

The panelists discuss core location beacons with Josh Johnson.

The panelists talk to Jeff Kelley about Concurrency in OS X and iOS.

The panelists talk about the app store with Azam Sharp.

The panelists talk to Saul Mora about The Responder Chain and MGPCommandBus.

Panel Manton Reece (twitter github blog) Ben Scheirman (twitter github blog NSSreencast) Pete Hodgson (twitter github blog) Andrew Madsen (twitter github blog) Jaim Zuber (twitter Sharp Five Software) Charles Max Wood (twitter github Teach Me To Code Rails Ramp Up) Discussion
01:13 - Manton Reece Introduction VitalSource Riverfold Software 01:33 - Subscription APIs and Recurring Revenue
02:25 - How Subscriptions Work
12:10 - In-app Purchases Non-renewing Subscriptions Auto Renewing Subscriptions 16:11 - Verifying Receipts Store Kit 19:32 - Subscription Levels Changing Plans 25:14 - Payments Stripe vs PayPal Picks Eric S. Raymond: The Lost Art of C Structure Packing (Jaim) Torchlight II (Ben) SC2Casts (Ben) after_party (Ben) thebennybox (Ben) Using Receipts to Protect Your Digital Sales (Ben) Using Store Kit for In-App Purchases (Ben) 2 Free (Technical Support Incidents) TSIs (Pete) Bay Area Casual Carpool (Pete) Bay Area Bike Share (Pete) Lucky 13 (Pete) Mike Ash: Friday Q&A 2014-01-10: Let's Break Cocoa (Andrew) The official raywenderlich.com Objective-C style guide (Andrew) Bacon Ipsum (Chuck) David Brady: The Job Hunting Mindset (Chuck) David Brady: The Job Replacement Guide: Why I Have To Write This Book (Chuck) Stripe (Manton) Helios (Manton) Next Week
MGPCommandBus with Saul Mora
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CHUCK: We got this Man-ton on our show!   CHUCK: Hey everybody and welcome to episode 39 of the iPhreaks Show. This week on our panel we have Ben Scheirman. BEN: Hello, from Bayou City. CHUCK: Bayou City? BEN: That’s Houston’s nickname. If we had a Ruby Conference, it would be Bayou City Ruby, and no one would know where it was. CHUCK: Yeah, that’s true. ANDREW: We’d all be in Louisiana. [Chuckling] CHUCK: Why are y’all in New Orleans? JAIM: That would be dirty south [inaudible]. CHUCK: Hey, at least you can go [inaudible]. Anyway –. JAIM: No offense to my New Orleans listeners. CHUCK: [Chuckles] We also have Pete Hodgson. PETE: Good morning from San Francisco! I don’t know what her nickname is; I should look that up. JAIM: Golden Gate City, is that it? PETE: I was tempted to go for Rainbow City, but –. CHUCK: [Laughs] We’re batting two for two this morning. Alright, Andrew Madsen. ANDREW: Hi from Salt Lake City. CHUCK: Jaim Zuber. JAIM: Hello from the Twin Cities. CHUCK: I'm Charles Max Wood from DevChat.tv and this week we have a special guest, and that is Manton Reece. MANTON: Hello from Austin, Texas! Good to be here. CHUCK: Hey, I managed to say that right! Do you wanna introduce yourself for those of us who don’t know who you are? MANTON: Sure. My name is Manton Reece, and I work for a company called VitalSource doing e-book software with Mac iOS12 web development, and I have a little side business called Riverfold Software where I have a number of iOS and Mac apps, web apps. CHUCK: Cool! So we brought you on today to talk about subscription APIs and recurring revenue – is that a thing for iOS? MANTON: That’s a thing for iOS. It depends who you ask what kind of answer you're gonna get about the right way to do that, or whether you should do it. But it’s a thing, I would say. CHUCK: I thought the thing was to write Angry Birds and make millions of dollars. MANTON: That’s one way to do it. The problem with the app store – the great thing and the problem is that you do have these huge hits that make way too much money, but then most of us aren’t that lucky, and even the ones that are lucky have a big hit, you sell a bunch of copies, you quit your job, you say, “This is great” and you do really well. Eventually, your app’s gonna fall out of the top 10 and top 100 and sales are gonna drop off and so you have to do it all over again and get a big launch. So, the subscriptions, the hope is you get a little more recurring revenue,

Panel Jaim Zuber (twitter Sharp Five Software) Ben Scheirman (twitter github blog NSSreencast) Andrew Madsen (twitter github blog) Charles Max Wood (twitter github Teach Me To Code Rails Ramp Up) Discussion
00:45 - iOS vs OS X UIViewController NSViewController 06:09 - NSWindowController
08:18 - Layered Views
09:48 - Bindings Cocoa Programming for Mac OS X by Aaron Hillegass Debugging 14:51 - Navigation NSPathView NSTableView NSScrollView NSCell 18:52 - Auto Layout
19:44 - Carbon
22:32 - Objective-C
24:44 - NS Classes Next Step 25:54 - Customization The Hit List Things NSOutlineView NSSplitView NSTabView 30:12 - Mac vs iOS Development Picks Mastering Modern Payments Using Stripe with Rails (Ben) The Doomsday Key: A Sigma Force Novel by James Rollins (Ben) The Art of the Screenshake (Ben) objc.io Issue #7: Communication Patterns (Jaim) The Snow Shark (Jaim) FastSpring (Andrew) objc-run (Andrew) Andrew's CocoaSlopes2013 Slides (Andrew) Disneyland (Chuck) New Media Expo (Chuck) Next Week
Subscription APIs for Recurring Revenue with Manton Reece
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CHUCK: I’ll turn this podcast right around.   CHUCK: Hey everybody and welcome to episode 38 of the iPhreaks Show. This week on our panel we have Jaim Zuber. JAIM: It’s 10 below, my car won’t start, and I'm not even mad. CHUCK: Ben Scheirman. BEN: It’s 35° and I'm also cold, but not quite as cold. [Chuckles] CHUCK: Andrew Madsen. ANDREW: 25° in Salt Lake City. CHUCK: I'm Charles Max Wood from DevChat.tv. Last week it was like 70-something degrees where I was at, so, very nice. This week we’re gonna be talking to Andrew; he’s kind of our guest, I guess. We’re gonna be talking about OSX programming. It’s kind of interesting after learning some of the techniques and tools for building things for iOS, I haven’t really looked at what's different with OSX. Do you want to kind of get us started on some of the things we have to know or do differently? ANDREW: Sure. Well I think the first thing to know is that iOS and OSX are sort of siblings, or you might even say that iOS is OSX’s kid, but iOS was obviously Apple’s chance to sort of do-over things that they wanted to do differently without the whole legacy baggage that kept them from doing that on OSX. In many ways, iOS is the more modern of the two – I wouldn’t say ‘operating systems,’ but the APIs are certainly more modern in a lot of places. There are things on OSX that are just more difficult if your coming from an iOS background you're sometimes left thinking, “Man, if I were in iOS this would be super easy, but it’s not so easy on OSX.” Fortunately there are also a few places where the opposite is true. OSX still makes things easier than they are on iOS. I'm not exactly sure where to start ‘cause there are quite a few differences. BEN: How about just the, maybe the [inaudible] example. The first thing I notice when I create a new Mac app is I'm used to just getting a view controller for free and that is kind of absent. You got a .NIB and that gives you a main window but there's really nothing else it gives you, right? ANDREW: Right. Well that's actually a great place to start. So on iOS, if you’ve done iOS programming, you know that UIViewControllers are sort of like the main class, almost, in iOS. Every single time you have a view onscreen, it has a UIViewController controlling it. On OSX, there is actually an NSViewController class, but that was introduced in 10.5, so relatively recently in the history of OSX, and what that means is that you can write an entire app without using NSViewController. It’s not sort of the vital class the UIViewController is on iOS, and that sort of gives you a lot more flexibility in terms of how you structure your application, but these days I've actually started using NSViewController more like UIViewControllers used on iOS.

Panel Jaim Zuber (twitter Sharp Five Software) Pete Hodgson (twitter github blog) Charles Max Wood (twitter github Teach Me To Code Rails Ramp Up) Ben Scheirman (twitter github blog NSSreencast) Discussion
01:32 - Model View Controller (MVC) and Model View Presenter (MVP) Ruby on Rails Model View ViewModel (MVVM) MFC Knockout.js 14:20 - Implementing MVC in iOS Apps
16:46 - Designing Models Alistair Cockburn: Hexagonal Architecture Domain-Driven Design: Tackling Complexity in the Heart of Software by Eric Evans Ruby Rogues Episode #78: Hexagonal Rails with Matt Wynne and Kevin Rutherford Ruby Rogues Episode #61: Domain Driven Design (DDD) with David Laribee 28:32 - Models and the Controller Notifications 31:00 - Key-Value Observing (KVO)
35:48 - Delegates and Blocks Picks Mattt Thompson: Key-Value Observing (Pete) Alistair Cockburn: Hexagonal Architecture (Pete) Saul Mora - Design Patterns for Mobile Apps (Pete) New Spring: The Novel (Wheel of Time) by Robert Jordan (Chuck) Freelancing Q&A (Chuck) Next Week
OS X
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PETE: I can’t believe I beat Ben Scheirman today. CHUCK: With a stick? PETE: No, he’s in the wrong state for that. CHUCK: Hey everybody and welcome to episode 37 of the iPhreaks Show. This week on our panel we have Jaim Zuber. JAIM: Hello from Minneapolis, where it’s a balmy 4°. CHUCK: Pete Hodgson. PETE: You just totally stole my thunder. I was going to complain about being cold in San Francisco, but it’s a lot warmer than that. Hello from not-so-frigid San Francisco. CHUCK: How cold is it in San Francisco? PETE: [Chuckles] Like, 32°. I don’t know, it feels like it’s freezing, but it’s probably not even 32°. Probably warmer than that, just cold for San Francisco. CHUCK: Charles Max Wood from DevChat.tv and it’s also 4° here. PETE: Okay, I’ll stop complaining. JAIM: Really? Or is it just dry cold? CHUCK: Yeah, it’s just dry cold here, too. We did get some snow. JAIM: There we go. PETE: It all makes sense now. JAIM: A little bit nicer. CHUCK: Yeah. Gives you something to do – go shovel snow, go skiing – we’re making people jealous now, I'm sure. PETE: I think I've been here once in San Francisco when it snowed, and it was like two or three flakes on the top of Twin Peaks, which is like the only really tall bit of San Francisco, and people drove their cars up there in the middle of the night to see these snowflakes fall [chuckles]. But it wasn’t like snowball fights; it was like four snowflakes. It was really exciting; it made my year. No skiing that year for us at San Francisco. CHUCK: Oh, come on. Alright. Anyway, so today on our [inaudible] we have MVC. JAIM: Alright, we’re talking MVC – an MVC extravaganza of sorts, I think. CHUCK: Yup. [Chuckles] PETE: Maybe we should start off with a definition. CHUCK: [Chuckles] A definition. Thanks, Josh. JAIM: That might take the entire episode, I think. PETE: With MVC, I always get really confused. So I know what MVC stands for: Model-View-Controller. And I kind of understand the principles quite well. But what I don’t get is the difference between MVC and MVP, and then it gets really confusing when you start talking about some of the other things out there. This is a long shot. Do either of you two know the difference between MVC and MVP? Because I definitely could not answer that if I have to save my life. CHUCK: I have a very vague idea of what it means, so I'm not even going to venture to try because I’ll probably get it wrong. One thing that I can say, though is that I've come to iOS programming from a very strong Rails background, and MVC in Rails and MVC in iOS are not the same. JAIM: Yup. CHUCK: I tend to think of iOS as more of an MVVM, because –. JAIM: I forgot about that one. CHUCK: The controller acts more like a view model or a view controller than it does, you know, a full-on controller.