Edge Cases
A weekly podcast about (mostly Apple-related) software development
- Update frequency
- every 7 days
- Average duration
- 43 minutes
- Episodes
- 128
- Years Active
- 2012 - 2015
Edge Cases 68: Improve Your App's Performance with This One Weird Tip
Andrew Pontious talks with Wolf Rentzsch about performance, including the difference ways to define performance improvements, techniques Andrew himself has used, and tips from Apple's WWDC sessions. …
00:42:38 |
Sat 09 Nov 2013
Edge Cases 67: Fillers and Spillers
Wolf Rentzsch talks to Andrew Pontious about his Çingleton 3 presentation, "Fillers and Spillers": his terms for those who advance human progress (such as scientist, engineers, and artists) and those…
00:32:55 |
Fri 01 Nov 2013
Edge Cases 66: The Language of Cross-Platform Development
Andrew Pontious talks with Wolf Rentzsch about the challenges of cross-platform development, including Mac vs. Windows, OS X vs. iOS, and iOS 6 vs. iOS 7.
00:50:38 |
Sat 26 Oct 2013
Edge Cases 65: Threads Are Interesting
Wolf Rentzsch talks to Andrew Pontious about threads, explaining what they are, giving them a robust defense, and providing hints about his sordid concurrency past. (Spoiler: GCD wins in the end.)
00:55:11 |
Sun 13 Oct 2013
Edge Cases 64: Slobbering over Xcode 5 Auto Layout
Andrew Pontious tells Wolf Rentzsch about the changes in Xcode 5, including a more iOS-like appearance, expanded SCM functionality, new unit test UI, and most importantly, a very welcome overhaul of …
00:48:45 |
Sun 06 Oct 2013
Edge Cases 63: ARM Is Kind of Like Dark Matter
Wolf Rentzsch talks to Andrew Pontious about ARM64: its history, its advantages, and its surprisingly unsurprising ISA (instruction set architecture).
00:49:38 |
Sat 28 Sep 2013
Edge Cases 62: Primal Debugging Systems
Andrew Pontious talks with Wolf Rentzsch about debugging: the oddity of combining a programmer's creation role with mystery solving, debugging difficulty levels, and the tools we use, including Instr…
00:49:11 |
Sun 25 Aug 2013
Edge Cases 61: A Cryptography Tourist
Wolf Rentzsch tries to scare Andrew Pontious with all the decisions you're likely to get wrong when implementing a cryptographic system and gives some advice on how to cope. (To skip the beginning in…
00:37:59 |
Sat 17 Aug 2013
Edge Cases 60: When You're New to a Codebase
Andrew Pontious covers with Wolf Rentzsch three aspects of learning the source code of an unfamiliar project: teaching someone else your codebase, learning a new codebase yourself, and the extra step…
00:48:36 |
Sat 10 Aug 2013
Edge Cases 59: If You're a File System Geek
Wolf Rentzsch talks with Andrew Pontious about the past, present, and future of file systems, from MFS to ZFS and beyond. Plus, how Apple could advance the state of the art with SSDs.
00:54:02 |
Sat 03 Aug 2013
Edge Cases 58: Testing Whether You Believe in Fairies
Andrew Pontious talks about interviewing for a job as a developer with Wolf Rentzsch: linked lists, trick questions, big-O notation, and more.
00:49:56 |
Sat 27 Jul 2013
Edge Cases 57: Both Praise and Condemn Keychain
Wolf Rentzsch talks with Andrew Pontious about the upsides and downsides as well as the history of OS X's (and now iOS's) Keychain.
00:47:08 |
Sat 20 Jul 2013
Edge Cases 56: A Client of TestFlight
Andrew Pontious goes over with Wolf Rentzsch the basics of Apple's code signing (or co-designing) infrastructure and how they help (or hinder) beta-testing distribution service TestFlight.
00:42:01 |
Sat 13 Jul 2013
Edge Cases 55: The Pragmatic and the Academic
Wolf Rentzsch talks with Andrew Pontious about the pros and cons of two routes to programming knowledge: the self-taught way (employed by both hosts), and the top-down way of a computer science degre…
00:53:29 |
Sat 06 Jul 2013
Edge Cases 54: No Carbon This Time Around
Andrew Pontious talks with Wolf Rentzsch about the risks and burdens developers will face updating their apps for iOS 7.
00:43:56 |
Sat 29 Jun 2013
Edge Cases 53: The Poetry of Donald Rumsfeld
Wolf Rentzsch talks about software estimation with Andrew Pontious and why he's given up even trying (hint: he found something that works better).
00:35:30 |
Fri 21 Jun 2013
Edge Cases 52: The iOS Version of Cocoa Bindings
Andrew Pontious talks with Wolf Rentzsch about the odd duck that is NSFetchedResultsController, as well as a bunch of Core Data issues, such as using SUBQUERY. Reminder: no podcast next week, due to …
00:40:35 |
Sat 01 Jun 2013
Edge Cases 51: Your Logging System Isn't Advanced Enough
Wolf Rentzsch continues the conversation about logging with Andrew Pontious, including a spirited debate on the merits of levels, his own logging package JRLog, and Cocoa Lumberjack.
00:43:34 |
Sat 25 May 2013
Edge Cases 50: The Graffiti of the Software Development World
Andrew Pontious talks about logging with Wolf Rentzsch, including Xcode breakpoint actions and the Apple System Log. Plus: lots of CocoaPods followup, and a surprise ending!
00:42:33 |
Sat 18 May 2013
Edge Cases 49: I Do Care a Lot About Dependencies
Wolf Rentzsch talks with Andrew Pontious about the upsides and downsides of CocoaPods, as well as other techniques for sharing code and tracking dependencies between projects.
00:44:03 |
Sat 11 May 2013
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