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 48: I Don't Finish the Books
Andrew Pontious talks with Wolf Rentzsch about the resources we use as developers to learn: books, Stack Overflow, Twitter, blogs, and, yes, conferences like WWDC.
00:46:00 |
Sat 04 May 2013
Edge Cases 47: Slinging CGRects Around
Wolf Rentzsch continues the conversation with Andrew Pontious about Auto Layout: its yays and its nays, Wolf's inevitable new GitHub projects to ease its usage, and alternatives such as ReactiveCocoa…
00:51:17 |
Sat 27 Apr 2013
Edge Cases 46: Rectangles on a String
Andrew Pontious talks with Wolf Rentzsch about Auto Layout from the newbie's perspective. In this, he's aided by Erica Sadun's book iOS Auto Layout Demystified. (Interface Builder winds up being less…
00:47:25 |
Sat 20 Apr 2013
Edge Cases 45: One Little Package of Hate
Wolf Rentzsch talks with Andrew Pontious about how OS X's installer technology is dangerous, complicated, obsolete, under-documented, and feature-poor.
00:50:10 |
Sat 13 Apr 2013
Edge Cases 44: Putting Your Scent on the Code
Andrew Pontious talks with Wolf Rentzsch about editor round-tripping: taking source code with one format, such as K&R-style braces, converting it losslessly to another format, and back. Are the trade…
00:37:47 |
Sat 06 Apr 2013
Edge Cases 43: Don't Expect Anything To Work
Kyle Sluder, who works on OmniOutliner at The Omni Group, talks to Wolf Rentzsch about disassembling, Core Animation, KVO, Auto Layout and more.
00:49:40 |
Sat 30 Mar 2013
Edge Cases 42: In a UI Tarpit
Andrew Pontious starts talking with Wolf Rentzsch about why native application UIs are better than website UIs, but ends up talking about why there are no ads in most iOS apps.
00:47:22 |
Sun 24 Mar 2013
Edge Cases 41: The Tofu Scale
Wolf Rentzsch talks with Andrew Pontious about philosophical and practical aspects of branching in version control.
00:53:46 |
Sat 16 Mar 2013
Edge Cases 40: Heroic Measures
Andrew Pontious talks with Wolf Rentzsch about how software developers often have to go "above and beyond" as part of their work.
00:48:17 |
Sat 09 Mar 2013
Edge Cases 39: Productivity Porn
Wolf Rentzsch talks with Andrew Pontious about his favorite Getting Things Done-oriented applications, such as OmniFocus, TaskPaper, and a few surprises. Plus: Charlie's Angels villains.
00:48:11 |
Sat 02 Mar 2013
Edge Cases 38: A Programmer and a Puzzler
Andrew Pontious along with Wolf Rentzsch talks about Andrew's experiences with text adventure games; a bit of their history, what it was like to develop them, and his eventual deal-breaking frustrati…
00:43:09 |
Sat 23 Feb 2013
Edge Cases 37: In the Tree of Your TODO List
Wolf Rentzsch, a GTD cultist, and Andrew Pontious, who's GTD-curious, talk about Getting Things Done in their fluffiest episode yet.
00:47:01 |
Sat 16 Feb 2013
Edge Cases 36: A Zeno's Paradox of Authentication
Wolf Rentzsch talks to Andrew Pontious about practical OAuth: how it works, tips and tricks about how to integrate it into your apps, and the ups and downs of version 2.0.
00:56:00 |
Sat 09 Feb 2013
Edge Cases 35: Their Job Is to Break It
Andrew Pontious, with second guest cohost Peter Hosey, talks about the strange and wacky world of quality assurance engineers.
00:42:44 |
Sun 03 Feb 2013
Edge Cases 34: Xcode, I Want to Get Organized!
Andrew Pontious, accompanied by Wolf Rentzsch, lets loose in this extra-long episode with his second Xcode 4 rant, this time focusing on Xcode's overstuffed Organizer window.
00:57:50 |
Sun 27 Jan 2013
Edge Cases 33: Flattry Will Get You Everywhere
Wolf Rentzsch along with Andrew Pontious uses the Swedish micropayment service Flattr as an excuse to talk about inter-application communication yet again as well as introduce Compliment, his app to …
00:41:10 |
Sat 19 Jan 2013
Edge Cases 32: The Case Against Xcode Plugins
Andrew Pontious covers with Wolf Rentzsch the logic behind why Apple won't introduce a public Xcode plugin architecture. Plus: how Mike Lee solved the halting problem.
00:37:34 |
Sat 12 Jan 2013
Edge Cases 31: The Turing Frights
Wolf Rentzsch talks with Andrew Pontious about Microsoft's research OS, Singularity, which breaks through the stagnation of current operatings systems with innovative use of static analysis, communic…
00:46:07 |
Sat 05 Jan 2013
Edge Cases 30: One Ring to Cocoa-Bind Them All
Andrew Pontious explores with Wolf Rentzsch key-value coding, key-value observing, and Cocoa Bindings: what's interesting about them, and how they can be a stack of suck. And remember: holiday break …
00:47:17 |
Sat 08 Dec 2012
Edge Cases 29: Squirting Code Across Address Spaces
Wolf Rentzsch talks with Andrew Pontious about mach_override (his project for dynamically overriding functions) and mach_inject (his project for cross-process code execution). You'll never guess who …
00:54:40 |
Sun 02 Dec 2012
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