NSBrief

NSBrief episodes:

• 06.18.2017

  #154: Tang Qiao

  At the second @swift developer conference in Shenzhen, China, Saul has a conversation with China’s most famous developer, Tang “Eddie” Qiao. They discussed a wide variety of topics about speaking languages, being famous in China, and the age old problem...

  
• 06.18.2017

  #153: Reboot

  The NSBrief podcast lives again! Saul is here to talk about the show, what changes are in store, and where things will go from here. Thanks for supporting the show all these years, and stay subscribed!

  
• 09.14.2015

  #152: Justin Miller

  Justin Miller (@incanus77) is the Senior iOS engineer at MapBox. In this interview, Janie and Justin discuss using OpenGL and Metal to build map frameworks. They also talk about some new stuff going on at MapBox.

  
• 09.07.2015

  #151: Vicki Wenderlich

  Vicki Wenderlich (@vwenderlich) is the lead designer at Ray Wenderlich.com. There she has built all the custom artwork for nearly all the tutorials including the artwork delivered with each tutorial sample project. In this episode, Janie and Vicki discuss careers...

  
• 08.31.2015

  #150: BJ Miller

  BJ Miller discusses his experiences writing a technical book with Janie

  
• 08.26.2015

  #149: 360idev 2015

  Live at 360idev 2015, Saul catches up with Charles Perry about the state of the indie iOS developer. And Janie chats with Stephen Tramer about managing security for iOS.

  
• 08.10.2015

  #148: Manuel Chakravarty

  Manuel Chakravarty (@tacticalgrace) is a self described Lambda Scientist. He is the developer of Haskell for Mac. In this episode, Janie chat with Manuel about a recent talk he gave to the Sydney Cocoaheads on Functional Programming in a Stateful...

  
• 06.30.2015

  #147: Genady Okrain

  Genady Okrain is an iOS Developer based in Tel Aviv, Israel. He is also the developer behind the WWDC Parties App. In this episode Genady stops by altConf and chats with Saul about the wild week he had at WWDC.

  
• 06.30.2015

  #146: Virginia Roberts

  Virginia Roberts @askvirginia is a podcaster, MC for the AppCamp4Girls, Online Dating Coach and most recently an app developer. In this episode, Saul and Virginia talk about creating an app from a crazy idea and the business of apps in...

  
• 06.30.2015

  #145: Macpaw

  At altConf, Saul ran into the fine folks behind the awesome apps at Macpaw. In this episode, Saul talks with the CEO of Macpaw about a new tool and server for Mac developers, Devmate. If you've thought that it was...

  
• 06.24.2015

  #144: Josh Smith

  Josh Smith (@kognate) is an iOS and Mac Developer and regular speaker at Cocoaconf. In this episode, Saul and Josh discuss not shipping your hobbies as a game developer and other real deep life topics pertaining to software development.

  
• 06.01.2015

  #143: Cesare Rocchi

  Cesare Rocchi (@_funkyboy) is the owner of Studio Magnolia. In this episode, Cesare and Janie discuss the possible ways to make a living as a developer on the AppStore in the post gold rush age.

  
• 05.26.2015

  #142: Ellen Shapiro

  Ellen Shapiro (@designatednerd) is a developer, speaker, and tutorial author in Chicago. She currently works for Vokal Interactive. She talks about her previous life in Hollywood and her passionate belief in mentorship.

  
• 05.18.2015

  #141: Chad Fowler

  Chad Fowler is the CTO of Wunderlist, a cross platform todo list app. In this episode, recorded in Istanbul, Turkey, Saul and Chad discuss working with legacy code and infrastructure.

  
• 05.11.2015

  #140: David Ronnqvist

  David Rönnqvist (@davidronnqvist), author of "3D Graphics With Scene Kit" speaks about why he wrote his book, how he got involved in 3D graphics programming, and how to experiment with creative user interfaces.

  
• 04.21.2015

  #139: Eric Skroch

  Eric Skroch is the maintainer of the Core Plot open source project. In this episode he talks about his experience taking over an open source project from another person and what it is like to maintain an older code base.

  
• 04.13.2015

  #138: Chris Adamson

  Chris Adamson(@invalidname) is an independent iOS developer, author, and conference speaker. Chris speaks about his most recent book and his experiences on the conference circuit.

  
• 03.23.2015

  #137: Gordon Fontenot

  Gordon Fontenot (@gfontenot) is a at Thoughtbot. He has contributed to the Argo JSON parsing library for Swift. In this episode, Saul and Gordon discuss the excellent series of Thoughtbot articles on deriving functional code in Swift.

  
• 03.16.2015

  #136: Orta Therox

  Orta Therox (@orta) is the Design Dictator of the CocoaPods project and a prominent member of the Open Source Community. In this conversation, we get to hear about CocoaPods, the importance of kindness, and _why you should contribute to open...

  
• 02.16.2015

  #135: Michael Tyson

  Michael Tyson(@MichaelTyson) is the developer of Loopy and Audiobus. He discusses his years roaming Europe in an RV and talks about how he developed an app that has been featured on The Tonight Show with Jimmy Fallon. Michael's Travel Blog Masterpiece Video...

  
• 02.07.2015

  Special Announcement

  Take a listen to this short announcement regarding what we've got in store in some upcoming episodes!

  
• 01.26.2015

  #134: Rob Rix

  Rob Rox (@robrix) is a developer at Github and works on Github for Mac. In this episode, we discuss some of the differences between Object Oriented and Functional Programming and living with Swift.

  
• 11.25.2014

  #133: WatchKit Hackathon

  On Sunday November 23, 2014, the world's first Apple Watch hackathon took place at the Hacker Dojo in Mountain View, California. There were many ideas and contest entries. Check this episode out to get an idea of some of the...

  
• 10.19.2014

  #132: Janie Clayton-Hasz

  Janie Clayton-Hasz (@redqueencoder) is a newcomer to the iOS scene based in Madison, Wisconson. In this episode, she catches up with Saul at the 360idev conference in Denver to chat about 3d graphics programming. - Episode Recorded Live at 360idev

  
• 09.19.2014

  #131: Jay Thrash

  Jay Thrash (@jaythrash) is a developer at AllScripts working on medical and health related apps before it was cool. In this episode, Jay and I discuss ways to put your View Controllers on a diet.

  
• 09.08.2014

  #130: Ariel Michaeli

  Arial Michaeli (@arialmichaeli) is the co-founder and CEO of AppFigures.com, a mobile app store data aggregation service. Live from 360idev 2014, we chat about trends in the iOS, Google and other app stores! Recorded LIVE at 360idev Denver, 2014

  
• 09.05.2014

  #129: Aaron Douglas

  Aaron Douglas (@astralbodies) is an engineer at Automattic, the company behind Wordpress and the Wordpress iOS application. Saul and Aaron chat about coordinating and contributing an open source project, application architecture and Core Data. This episode was recorded LIVE at 360idev...

  
• 08.06.2014

  #128: Josh Johnson

  Josh Johnson (@jnjosh) is an iOS developer at Two Toasters. After Cocoaconf Raleigh 2014, Josh and I talked about his talk on dealing with network APIs.

  
• 07.31.2014

  #127: Rob Napier

  Rob Napier (@cocoaphony) is a Mac developer for Dell. In this conversation recorded after a recent Cocoaconf, we talk about Security, what it means for developers and what reasonable precautions you should take to protect your apps.

  
• 07.07.2014

  #126: Ash Furrow

  Ash Furrow (@ashfurrow) is Saul Mora's Twitter nemesis. In a battle to the death, those two champions of code fight for the future of developers around the World! See who wins in this blow by blow battle between Objective C,...

  
• 06.27.2014

  #125 Walter Tyree

  Walter Tyree (@tyreeapps) is an independent iOS developer. In this episode, we discuss how Walter handles legacy code bases found when going into new client projects.

  
• 06.16.2014

  #124: Supertop

  WWDC14 was a great event for Mac and iOS developers. In this episode, we talk to the guys behind the small dev team of Supertop, and we talk about their apps, Tokens and Castro. We also recap some of the...

  
• 06.14.2014

  #123: NSConference 6

  NSConference was held from March 17-19 in Leciester, England. Saul attended this international gathering of independent iOS and Mac developers and was able to talk a few of the speakers and attendies about some of the highlights of the show.

  
• 05.28.2014

  #122: Marcus Zarra

  Marcus Zarra (@mzarra) is the Legal and Financial director at Martian Craft. He has written a book on Core Data and contributes regularly to Stackoverflow.com answering developer's Core Data questions. In this interview, I caught up with Marcus at NSConference...

  
• 04.01.2014

  #121: Paul Hadad

  Paul Hadad (@tapbot_paul) is the engineering half of Tapbots. In this episode, we talk about how Paul writes apps.

  
• 03.04.2014

  #120: Charles Perry

  Charles Perry (@dazeend) is the founder of Metakite Software. In this episode, we talk about the perils of running your own business and the importance of adding accessibility in your apps.

  
• 02.13.2014

  #119: Krzysztof Zablocki

  Krzysztof Zablocki (@merowing_) works with Lextech Global Services and on new products at Pixle. He is also the author of the popular app, Foldify. In this episode we talk about code and fitness.

  
• 02.09.2014

  #118: Conrad Stoll

  Conrad Stoll (@conradstoll) is a developer at Mutual Mobile. In this episode, we talk about some of the new bits in iOS7 and developing with the M7 chip in mind. -- Audio Mastered by Rubber City Wizard, Jonathan Penn

  
• 01.20.2014

  #117: Matt Matteson

  Matt Matteson (@mattmatt) was the first employee at Path and is currently working on Lift. In this episode, we talk a bit about his adventures in the Silicon Valley startup culture. - Sponsored by The Rubber City Wizards Game Development Workshop....

  
• 01.13.2014

  #116: Guy English

  Guy English (@gte) is the host of the popular Debug podcast. Guy is also a co-founder at Aged and Distilled, makers of Napkin. In this episode, we talk about Cingleton, and our long, long old grey beard development careers, and...

  
• 01.10.2014

  #115: Tim Burks

  Tim Burks (@timburks) is an independent iOS developer at Radtastical, based in Silicon Valley. Tim heads up the Silicon Valley iOS User Group. Tim is also the Director of Renaissance, The iOS App Makers' Conference. Tickets for Renaissance are on...

  
• 01.06.2014

  #114: Peter Hosey

  Peter Hosey (@boredzo) is a Mac programmer. His credits include working on the Adium chat client. In this episode, we talk to Peter about a talk he gave at the MacTech Conference in LA and discuss things make a great...

  
• 12.16.2013

  #113: Uli Kusterer

  Uli Kusterer (@uli_witness) is a developer a Elgato. In this episode, we explore the crazy world of Objective C++ in all it's glory! - Audio Mastered by Jonathan Penn of Rubber City Wizards

  
• 12.04.2013

  #112: Simon Wolf

  Simon Wolf (@sgaw) is the man behind Otter Software. We join Simon hopefully toward the end of his epic journey in developing his avTag for iOS app. - Sponsored by HTTPea, a simple iOS HTTP query app for iOS Developers

  
• 11.18.2013

  #111: Tony Arnold

  Tony Arnold (@tonyarnold) is the lead Developer at Cocoabots. In this episode, we talk about life and open source. Sponsored by HTTPea - A simple but powerful tool for developers to send HTTP requests from your iOS device.

  
• 10.28.2013

  #110: Drew McCormack

  Drew McCormack (@drewmccormack) is the founder of the Mental Faculty, an independent developer based in The Netherlands. Recently, Drew introduced a new, open source cloud syncing framework for Core Data called Core Data Ensembles. I recently caught up with Drew...

  
• 10.16.2013

  #109: Jonathan Rhyne

  Jonathan Rhyne (@jdrhyne) is an attorney with Smith Debnam in Raleigh, North Carolina. Jonathan joins Saul to talk about the legal necessities of running an app business today, in terms developers can understand. You can contact Jonathan for your legal...

  
• 09.23.2013

  #108: Phil Letourneau and Olivier Charavel

  Phil Letourneau (@philletourneau) and Olivier Charavel (@charavel) design awesome products and client apps at Black Pixel. In this episode, we discuss the HIG for iOS and Mac and try to find out what this document actually does for developers.

  
• 09.02.2013

  #107: Michele Titolo

  Michele Titolo (@micheletitolo) is a Senior Mobile Engineer at Prolific Interactive. She joins us to talk about web apis, and some things to keep in mind when writing apps for them. We also chat about some of the work Michele...

  
• 08.26.2013

  #106: Kirk Van Gorkom

  Kirk Van Gorkom (@kvangork) is the Lead Hammer at Forge Apps, an iOS and Rails client services shop. In this episode, Kirk gives a talk about his experiences in consulting and what he thinks is the future of indie consulting....