The iDeveloper Podcast

John talks about his hack day success and shares his tips and tricks on how to be successful at hack day events. Scotty explains how Marzipan could alter the approach to the next version of MoneyWell.

Scotty and John continue their conversation on preparing a presentation, presentation software and accessibility issues and concerns. Scotty talks a little about his new contract while John starts to get excited by the next Netflix hack day. There is also a special guest appearance from Amy the dog.

Scotty and John discuss horrible hardware UX, the different ways to prepare a conference talk and how syncing is far more than just code that syncs data.

After a break away from the mic (because John couldn’t find his) the boys are back. Other than reminiscing over the 80’s they discuss team coding standards, focusing on the needs of new users vs existing users and preparing for WWDC.

Scotty & John discuss communication problems, the importance of acknowledging problems and objections when trying to sell to people and how bad indie developers often are at selling and marketing. John also shares how he designs and documents his classes.

Scotty & John discuss hard choices when designing app on-boarding and Johns colossal oversight.

John updates us on how there were a few problems with his efficient xib loading solution and Scotty shares how he is re-writing the ensembles server and making allowances for Wasabi / S3 differences. John also reports on his sons robotic, and Scotty makes a personal appeal for sponsorship to support his run to raise money for MS research.

John talks about his new found fame and a vegetarian free bug bash. Scotty totally forgets what he said he wanted to talk about so discusses the problems indie developers can encounter when they find it hard to set their own boundaries.

Scotty shares how he recently had some sync issue with an app he uses and how the tech support experience trying to get it resolved has made him totally reconsider how he is going to implement sync in MoneyWell. John also shares about his visit to the Steve Jobs theatre for an Apple shareholders meeting.

John talks in depth about optimizing the loading of xib files and Scotty discusses the decision to rewrite 30% of MoneyWell.