Nathan Eror (@neror) is an independent iOS developer. Original setting out to write games, he has learned ways to make himself a more efficient developer by maximizing his developer toolset.

Upcoming Events

MacTech LA

Links

freetimestudios.com

http://hbr.org/2006/10/sleep-deficit-the-performance-killer/

Danielle Reubenstein (@dspace) is the Creative Officer at Xcellent Creations, a mobile application developer based in Denver, Colorado. Danielle gave a well received talk at 360idev; Saul and Danielle chatted about her creative process, and how developers can work better with designers.

Joe Cieplinski (@jcieplinski) is the design guy at Bombing Brain Interactive. While at 360idev in Denver, we chatted with Joe about his conference presentation, The Race to the Bottom, and how to avoid it. We chat about pricing your apps in the app store, and alternatives to the freemium model that is so pervasive in the AppStore these days.

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While at the 360idev Developer Conference in Denver, Colorado, I decided to hold a last minute lunch session and talk to a few people. In this episode, we chat with Andres Linde and Micheal Simmons about HockeyApp, Collin Donnell about Developer productivity and I debate Stephen Vanterpool about the pros and cons of Singletons.

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Links

Singletons

Mark Aufflick (@markaufflick) is an indie Cocoa developer writing Mac and iOS apps. Mark is also one of the organizers of SwipeConf, Australia's first iOS Developer conference. In this episode, we talk about the topic most frequently asked of Mark at his regular Cocoaheads meeting: How do I quit my job and become an independent contractor.

Open Source Spotlight

KSReachability 

Links

ICL

Phillip Greenspun - Database Driven Websites

Cartoon Art Museum

Alan Kay - Smalltalk

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Chris Forsythe (@the_tick) is the CEO of Growl, the open source Mac Desktop notification system. In this episode, we talk about the history of growl, and the upcoming release and what it means with Mac OS X Mountain Lion.

Links

Adium

Colloquy

FTPeel 1.0 Blog Post Announcement

GNTP

Growl + Java

Growl Homepage

Growl Developer Docs

irc.freenode.com - #growl

growl-development Google Group

Prowl

Capster

Bark

Hiss 

Mountain Growl

[email protected]

[email protected]

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Mattt Thompson (@mattt) is a prolific iOS and Ruby developer. You may know him from his work with AFNetworking, however he is also the mastermind behind NSHipster, and other awesome cocoa blogs and tools. In this episode, we discuss Heroku for iOS apps, and how to be productive with your developer projects.

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Links

Rack Core Data

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Mark Dalrymple (@borkware) is an instructor at the Big Nerd Ranch, an author, and all around funny guy. In this episode, we discuss his awesome book, Advanced Mac OSX Programming, The Big Nerd Ranch Guide and other nerd topics.

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Heroku

Links

Borkware

Advanced Mac OSX Programming, The Big Nerd Ranch GuideThe Big Nerd Ranch

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Mike Ash (@mikeash) regularly writes about Cocoa related topics on his popular blog, NSBlog. In this episode, we talk about various things related to Mac, iPhone and Cocoa development. Eventually, we get to the topic of air gliders as a hobby.

Sponsor

Heroku

Links

BookBaby

Gywnn Raskind

MacToolbox

Rouge Amoeba

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Manuel Carrasco Molina (@StuffMC) is a podcaster and Cocoa developer. He is also organizing a new European Cocoa confernece, ObjCGN in September 2012. In this episode, we discuss his experiences with Mac app sandboxing.

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Links

Disk Alarm

-- On the App Store

TaoEffect - Espionage - Mac App Store Failure

Text Expander moving out of the Mac App Store - on MacStories

Apple Sandboxing Docs

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