NSBrief

By Saul Mora

A brief podcast for cocoa developers, talking about interesting developer-y stuff... more

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The podcast currently has 156 episodes available.

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July 23, 2012 #56: Jonathan Blocksom
Jonathan Blocksom (@jblocksom) is the Managing Director of the Big Nerd Ranch in Washington DC. He has experience implementing Computer Vision on iOS, and teaches the Advanced iOS programming class for the Big Nerd Ranch. After a great time learning and teaching at CocoaConf in Herndon, VA, Saul and Jonathan talk about OpenGL.
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CocoaConf - Get 20% Off your ticket to the next CocoaConf in Columbus, Ohio. Use the promo code NSBRIEF on checkout!
Links
OpenGLES 2.0 <- Contains the rendering pipeline diagrams discussed

Big Nerd Ranch

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1h 11min
July 16, 2012 #55: Chris Ross
Chris Ross (@darkrock) is the founder of Hidden Memory, an iOS development firm based in Brighton, UK. He's also recently written and released a handy developer tool called Resource Helper.
Links
iOSDevUK
Hidden Memory

Resource Helper

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1h 20min
July 09, 2012 #54: Dom Sagolla
Dom Sagolla (@dom) was present when Twitter was born, as a Quality Assurance tester. These days, Dom works on Product Development at Chaotic Moon. In his spare time, he also helps coordinate iOSDevCamp, the funnest iOS Developer hackathon event, EVAR. Dom is 1337.
Sponsor
Cocoaconf
For aweomse technical sessions, presented by awesome members of the community, CocoaConf is a great conference to attend.
Links
iOSDevCamp

Accelerando

Lyric Semiconductor

TouchCode

Get Around

MIT Media Lab

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56min
July 02, 2012 #53: WWDC 2012
WWDC is the event of the year for all Cocoa, Mac and iOS developers. In this episode, a few developers share with me some of the projects and products on which they've been working.
EDITORIAL NOTE: The audio quality of this episode is not how we like to regularly release episodes. However, we wanted to publish these interviews due to the content contained in each one.
Links
Interview with Salman Sajid
@sajidcreative

Sohail Ahmed - @idStar

TouchType iPad Case
Interview with Mike Katz
@TheMikeKatz

Kinvey
Interview with Steve Streeting
@stevestreeting

Orge 3d

SourceTree

GitX

BrotherBard GitX

Git

Mercurial

Mac App Store: Sandboxing Update

Atlassian

Developer Jobs at Atlassian

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51min
June 25, 2012 #52: Paul Darcey
Paul Darcey (@pauldarcey) is the new CEO of Appsterdam. In this episode, we chat about how he got involved in Appsterdam, and what the future of Appsterdam holds for App Makers worldwide.
Sponsor
CocoaConf
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Links
iDeveloperLive

@idevelopertv
Core Intuition

@coreint
Edge Cases

@edgecasesshow
Dispatch Source

@dispatchsource
Official Appsterdam Homepage

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43min
June 18, 2012 #51: Jamiee Newberry
Jaimee Newberry (@jaimeejaimee) is a User Exerience Designer at Black Pixel. In a chance meeting on the way home from WWDC, Saul and Jaimee chat on a plane about #wwdcgirls.
Links
@invisiblepixels

@janeylicious

[email protected]

An Open Letter to Women in Tech

See the full gallery on Posterous

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49min
June 08, 2012 #50: Pitch Perfect
Erica Sadun (@ericasadun) and Steve Sande (@stevensande) blog about everything related to Apple at TUAW, including developer apps. Pitch Perfect is their new book written to help developers (of any platform) craft better review pitches to blogging sites for review.
Sponsor
Cocoaconf
NSBrief listeners can get $100 off your ticket to the next Cocoaconf in Herndon, Virginia! Just use the promo code NSBRIEF on checkout!
Open Source Spotlight
Specta

Expecta
Links
Pitch Perfect

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1h 14min
June 04, 2012 #49: Daniel Pasco
Daniel Pasco (@dlpasco) is the CEO at Black Pixel, a secret band of iOS and Mac Development ninja assassins. In this episode, Saul chats with Daniel about being a Ninja Assassin, a Rocket Scientist, a Musician and occasionally, a software Developer. We also chat about Black Pixel's recent software acquisitions, releases and other random stuff that came up.
Links
Versions
NetNewswire

Kaleidoscope

Andy Finnel - Contracting Indie Fever - C4
Mule Radio

- App Link
iCloud Core Data - repo on Github

iDeveloperTV sessions
Treadmill Desk - Your Desk Job is Killing You - Video Blog Post
MUD
John Gruber - Theory of Design
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1h 6min
May 29, 2012 #48: Justin Miller
Justin Miller (@incanus77) hacks on mapping components for Mac and iOS apps at Development Seed. In this episode, we chat with Justin about his most recent project, MapBox, a free MapKit replacement for your iOS apps, as well as other free mapping tools for use from the awesome guys at Development Seed.
Sponsor
Cocoaconf
Get $100 off your ticket purchase for the next Cocoaconf in Herdon, VA! Enter the code NSBRIEF on checkout!
Links
iDeveloper Live Episode 53 - Our Followup on RubyMotion
Till Mill
OpenStreet Map
slate.com
Chicago Tribune
White House
Four Square

Mapresent
UCOnn MAGIC

Google Mars
Google Moon

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49min
May 21, 2012 #47: Drew McCormack
Drew McCormack (@drewmccormack) is the Founder and Lead developer of The Mental Faculty, a small, independent software developer based in The Netherlands. Drew's experience as an academic computing researcher is invaluable for learning the pros and cons to parallelizing your apps. In this episode, we discuss parallel programming as it relates to Mac and iOS applications.
Links
The Mental Faculty

iDeveloperTV Video Courses

GCD Documentation

SETI@Home

Amdahl's Law

XPC Services

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50min

FAQs about NSBrief:

How many episodes does NSBrief have?

The podcast currently has 156 episodes available.