The iDeveloper Podcast

John and Scotty start the year by sharing their aspirations for 2017 as well as making a prediction or two. They also discuss John's ongoing wrestling with AVFoundation and the difficulties of learning complex frameworks. Scotty also announces his intention to produce an on going diary of his mission to ship some sort of product in 2017.

John and Scotty discuss the new download feature in the Netflix iOS app, old code crashing on MacOS Sierra and the difficulties of making fixes and getting them into the Mac App Store. They also talk about the people benefits vs the technical benefits of conference attendance. John also confesses to building a fake Donald Trump tweet.

They also reflect on John's first year at Netflix and Scotty's Laptop vs Desktop dilema.

(Apologies for the poor audio quality)

We have been away for 9 weeks but it is time to say "Hello Again". They talk about handling airport wifi in your apps. The new Apple notebook range. Scotty's recent travels and upcoming conferences. John' s audio set-up and what they have decided to call "The Season of Productivity"

This week John has to own up to missing recording the show as he fell asleep. He also talks about some recent issues he had with using Cocoapods after leaving a project for a year. Scotty talks about his trip to iOSDevUK and totally forgets Richard Turton's name.

This week John and Scotty talk about John's trip to Europe and Scotty's trip to 360iDev. They also discuss Apple's announcement about cleaning up the App Store.

This week John and Scotty talk again about age asking questions about ageism in our industry. They also discuss burnout and if it is related to age any way.

This week John and Scotty talk about becoming a better developer. They use a blog post by Zach McArtor of Martian Craft to guide their conversation.

This week John and Scotty talk about the the problem with having third party code that goes out of date and is no longer maintained.

This week John and Scotty talk about the lack of good sample code that not only demonstrates a framework or technique but how it also fits into the context of well architected full application.