Verbose

Verbose

By Liam Dunne, Karl Monaghan, Oisin HurleyTechnologyTech News
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Verbose episodes

  • Episode 12: Bleeding Hearts

    In which we talk of bleeding hearts and retaining data, freedom of information and what Kickstarter really owes to their contributors.

    Shownotes:


    The WWDC Ticket Lottery! One of us is ecstatically happy about being given the opportunity to pay Apple a lot of money for a week in San Francisco, the other two less so.

    Heartbleed is discussed, including revoking our servers cigarettes.

    Data retention law in the EU kicked into touch.

    A brief mention of GCHQ means that porn becomes a topic of discussion for several minutes again.

    The Freedom Of Information act in Ireland, and how it’s being amended for the worse

    Monument Valley for iOS

    Minecraft…

    Oculus Rift’s purchase by Facebook, and how all the Kickstarter contributors get to feel about that.

    Karl’s Laugh attempts to launch his own space rocket, powered by solely by inhumanly loud laughter.

    New Starters Blaming Previous Incumbents (Medium

    Comic Neue

    Computer Vision for iOS: Deep Belief SDK

    Command Line Corner:

    - tag: command line tagging

    - duti: document types at the command line

    1 hr 31 min
  • Episode 10: Weak Facial Recognition

    In which we discuss Úll conference with one of its founders, Dermot Daly of Tapadoo. Also, CarPlay,

    Shownotes:

  • Best Programming Practices, as espoused in Writing Solid Code and Code Complete

  • Flappy Birds Revisited

  • Hipster Sink Plungers (I couldn't find the link sadface)

  • We get grumpy about Huvr

  • Command Line Corner:

  • - Nashville

  • - Dringend

  • Old Man Coding War Stories (no links, just get off our lawn)

  • The GHCQ Porn Cache

  • Mostly knob jokes from here onwards, apart from:

  • Rubymotion

  • Some Backend As A Service options

  • Apple’s purchase of TestFLight
  • 58 min
  • Sporadic, My Ass

    In which we deny rumours of our sporadic output, we get in a flap about app-flipping, we make insulting comments about known homophobes, racists and each other, and we discuss security & encryption in relation to mobile app data.


    And for the first time on Verbose, there's an after-show section! We basically just forgot to stop the recording and continued to drink beer.

    Shownotes:

    • Flappy Bird flaps no more.
    • The depressingly profitable practice of flipping apps.
    • Dungeon Keeper's horrible usage of IAPs, and slightly more reasonable approach to dissuading users from leaving negative reviews, and instead leaving useful feedback for the developer. Will Shipley's response on app store ratings requests.
    • Pantigate, its many repercussions, and defamation in Ireland in general.
    • Panti's Noble Call on youtube
    • Casual racism & drunken leprechaun mobile games for the Android platform.
    • The Stackmob shutdown announcement.
    • Five Mistakes Startups Make When Building for Mobile: [article]
    • Implementing securely encrypted databases & data protocols.
    • Command Line Corner: imsg, and tales from the dark and distant past of adventures from command line.
    • Marvel Comics API, and Karl's very own iOS library for it.
    • After-shownotes:

      • Mostly beer drinking.
      • 'Intrusion' by Ken McCleod.
      • Meandering thoughts on security theatre.
      • Teaching C using vi.
      • 1 hr 36 min
      • Episode 8: Resolute & Predictable

        In which we square our chins, gird our loins, bare our teeth and turn our gaze to the future. It’s not a good look for any of us. We talk a little about some of our crowd-sourced resolutions and predictions for the new year, some of which may prove to be more elusive than others.

        Shownotes:

        • Apple's iPhone turns 7 years old
        • Resolutions/Predictions for 2014 xcake/resolutions-and-predictions
        • Irish politician Patrick O’Donovan embarrasses himself by calling for crackdown on internet browsers and payment systems which facilitate illegal activity. We mock this at great length.
        • AT&T's Sponsored Data plans and why it's a terrible idea
        • — and also, Fred Wilson’s views on it FRED-WILSON-The-Net-Neutrality-Decision-Will-Be-5147487.php
        • Why Google Just Paid $3 Billion for a Thermostat Company
        • Squarespace. They didn’t sponsor us this month.
        • Jelly.co, collaborative shared searching that seems hugely popular everywhere in San Francisco
        • Fluther (Pre-Jelly Jelly): fluther.com
        • Postman REST Client: postman-rest-client
        • jq: a lightweight and flexible command-line JSON processor stedolan.github.io/jq/
        • 1 hr 9 min
        • Episode 7: Somebody's Watching Me

          Between the NSA watching our every move, and us watching our users every move (via analytics), our collective paranoia has never been higher. Also: we discuss how animation principles can be applied to making better user interfaces in our apps. We also briefly mention Anchorman 2, which none of us have actually seen yet.

          Shownotes:

          • ACLU.org: Meet Jack. Or, What The Government Could Do With All That Location Data aclu.org/meet-jack-or-what-government-could-do-all-location-data
          • Transitional Interfaces: by Pasquale D'Silva medium.com/design-ux/926eb80d64e3
          • Designing with Animation: by Pasquale D'Silva youtube.com/watch?v=TMe0WnkF1Lc&featu
          • From Cartoons to the User Interface (1993): Bay-Wei Chang & David Ungar selflanguage.org/_static/published/animation.pdf
          • Castro: High Fidelity Podcasts for iPhone castro.fm< &
          • iTunes link
          • Karl's App Stats: karlmonaghan.com/app-stats/stats.html
          • Command Line Magic (@climagic) twitter.com/climagic
          • Lookback.io: Video-based UX testing framework lookback.io
          • New Relic: App Analytics newrelic.com
          • Segment.io: More analytics segment.io
          • Anchorman 2: anchormanmovie.com
          • 50 min
          • Episode 6: Circumlocutory

            This is a big one. Supersized, if you will. We podcasted the hell out of the podcast this week, I can tell you. It's called Verbose for a reason. Plus: more cursing!.

            Shownotes:

            • New devices: iPhone 5s/5c/iPad Air/Mini Retina
            • Kickstarter: projects we have backed, successfully or otherwise
            • Craft Beer Interlude
            • Objc.io Newsstand app
            • iOS Tech Talks: London Dec 17th
            • WebSummit (10k attendees)
            • AWS Invent (+ general amazon new stuff)
            • Command line corner! Nomad CLI updates
            • Objective Clean
            • 1 hr 5 min
            • Episode 5: Enthusiasm

              In which several forthcoming things are discussed at great length, with a rising fervour, growing to a feverish pitch, and ending with lots of giddy excitement.

              Shownotes:

              • iPhone 5s/5c for the rest of the world! Well, Ireland anway... Phase 2
              • iBeacons: Estimote & Stick N Find
              • Official Office for iPad: The Verge
              • Objective C and Cocoa conference listings: CocoaConferences
              • Brewbot Kickstarter! (this is awesome) BrewBot
              • 51 min
              • Episode 4: Dissections

                In which the minutiae of announcements made by Apple at their September 10th event regarding the new iPhone 5S and 5C are dissected and examined at great length, and in which iWork is glanced at rather briefly.

                Shownotes:

                • Reveal (so good we name it twice): runtime inspection for iOS apps revealapp.com
                • Amazon Simple Notification Service (SNS): aws.amazon.com/sns/
                • 42 min
                • Episode 3: Ramifications

                  In which the ramifications of developer portal downtime has affected all and sundry, the ramifications of AWS's new push notification service being launched, the ramifications of using Reveal.app to fix up misbehaving UIViews, and the ramifications of Apple's upcoming September 10th event.

                  Shownotes:

                  • Reveal (so good we name it twice): runtime inspection for iOS apps revealapp.com
                  • Amazon Simple Notification Service (SNS): aws.amazon.com/sns/
                  • 40 min

                  About Verbose

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                  The Verbose Podcast is a monthly Apple tech podcast presented by Oisin Hurley, Karl Monaghan & Liam Dunne