More Than Just Code podcast - iOS and Swift development, news and advice

Episode 201: Who Are you People!?

June 30th, 2018  |  1 hr 44 mins

73, air power, ash furrow, beyond meat, bill coron, black plague, butterfly keys, c++, cement shoes, cocos 2d, ebola, eric idle, excel, fireside.fm, gary shandling, gather around children, geoffrey tambor, google sheets, harley quinn, how do you find the time to do the things that you do?, impossible burger, irving stone, isle sur la sorge, katamari damacy, king crimson, kirk douglas, lexington, loving vincent, lust for life, margot roby, mike daley, paintcode, paris, playdead inside, pond scrum, prime number, scenekit, secure enclave, shawn marston, sky box, sleeping with the fishes, spockcast, suicide squad, the strombo show, tinnitis, udemy, uialertcontroller, unity, vincent, vincent van gogh, welland canal

This week we look at hardware upgrade plans. We look at updating apps and choosing programming languages and frameworks. We follow up on Apple's repair program for faulty keyboards on MacBooks and MacBook Pros, as well as Airbnb's posts about withdrawing from React Native. Apple is hit with fines over "Error 53". Ustwo publishes a report on the first year of Monument Valley 2. Pick: Step into Vincent Van Gogh's Starry Night and stay a while. Check it out on the Oculus Go! We discuss how to manage tasks and stay true to your goals. We also discuss the runners up for Top WWDC Videos.

Episode 184: Piercing the Veil

February 24th, 2018  |  1 hr 7 mins

11.2.6, 1password, alan downey, altered carbon, apple, apple park, arkit, astropad hq, astropad studio, azure, bluemix, computer literacy, cryptocurrency, docker, doping, duck, errors & omissions, gamplaykit, google home, hockey, home brew, homepod, huawei, ios 11, iosref, iphone x, jupiter notebooks, lcc, light saber effect, maltese falcon, mentor, miracle on ice, notch, notes, objective-c, olympics, piercing the veil, python, raymond chandler, richard k morgan, roundabout matt ronge, safe area, samsung, scene editor, scenekit, short track speed skating, skydio r1, spritekit, strategy analytics, swift, swift playground, the big sleep, what is architecture

We start out with news that Apple will require new apps to be written with iOS 11 and iPhone X support. Apple also has gained half of all smart phone sales for the first time, in spite of recent rumors of an iPhone X sales short fall. We look at 1Password, it's support of cryptocurrency and tips and tricks for 1Password organization. We discuss whether learning to program is getting harder. We also open discussion about whether software developer and consultants need errors and omissions insurance. In the after show we look at the HomePods adoption. Picks: Astropad Studio, What is the duck of productivity? and iOS Quick Reference for iPhone, iPad, and Apple Watch

Photo: Running Fence by Christo and Jeanne-Claude, 1976

Episode 152: Word Jail

July 15th, 2017  |  1 hr 15 mins

arkit, autocompletion, day of the indie, lg 4k, lion, mountain lion, play store, scenekit, seeing ai, snow leopard, swift 4, ultrafine, windows phone, xcode debug mode

We start the show answering a question about the LG 4K display. The end of the Windows Phone, finding older macOS installers, and updating your App Store pages are covered in the follow up. PayPal is now a payment option when purchasing apps on the App Store. Google is using AI to vet apps on the Play Store. 1Password is encouraging users to use their cloud based subscription service, which has created reactions about security and convenience. Microsoft Seeing AI app assists users with visually navigating the environments. We discuss the panicky headlines around iPhone 8 feature rumors. Picks: Safe Area Layout Guide, KFC's iPhone killer has arrived, Fixing Autocompletion on Mixed Objective-C and Swift Projects, ARKit Tutorial in Swift 4 for Xcode 9 using SceneKit