Kevin Hoctor (@kevinhoctor) is the owner of No Thirst Software, developers of Debt Quencher and the popular finance management application, MoneyWell for Mac and iOS. In this episode, we talk to the wise Hoctor about making mistakes in your business.

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Laurent Sansonetti (@lrz) is the original creator of MacRuby, and former Apple Engineer. He has recently moved back to his home in Belgium, and has made a splash in the Cocoa development community with his recent release of RubyMotion, which brings the Ruby environment to the iOS platform. In this episode, we discuss the MacRuby project, and are introduced to RubyMotion.

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Allen Ding (@alding) is the original author of Kiwi, a popular open source testing framework for iOS. During his European tour, Saul arraigned to meet Allen in Amsterdam for a chat on the origins of Kiwi, and where it's going.

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Ben Scheirman (@subdigital) is a Rails and iOS developer who's recently made a splash with his new video screencasts for Mac and iOS Developers, NSScreencast. 

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David Kinney (@dlkinney) is the lead orgnaizer of SecondConf, a small confernece aimed at inspiring independent developers. David is also an independent consultant and, in this episode, we dicuss OpenCL development for the Mac.

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Jen Gordon (@itsjengordon) is a designer and marketer who started her own business called Tapptics. Tapptics provides instruction for developers who want to design and implement custom artwork without the help of a designer. In this episode, we talk about how she started her business, and how Tapptics can help indie developers on a budget design great looking apps.

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Graham Lee (@iamleeg) is the author of Secure Mac Programming. However, he is also an advocate of Test Driven Development for iOS and Mac developers. In this episode, we discuss some of the principles of testing while still being pragmatic about testing.

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Colin Wheeler (@CocoaSamurai) is a Cocoa and iOS developer and runs his local Cocoaheads and NSCoderNights in Des Moines, Iowa. He recently gave a presentation on alternative UI frameworks for Mac Application Development, and we discuss them in detail.

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Jay Graves (@skabber) is the CTO at Double Encore, Inc, an iOS (and Android) consulting agency based in Denver, Colorado. Part of being a consulting agency with large and demanding clients, Double Encore has to operate differently than other indie consulting shops. In this episode, we take a look at some of the challenges Double Encore has faced, and how they solved them.

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Josh Abernathy (@joshaber) is a githubber working on the Github for Mac client. We discuss the technical limitations of AppKit when it comes to Core Animations.

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