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

Episode 317: Best of MTJC: Test Backed Development

September 27th, 2020  |  1 hr 22 mins

1password, a12 processor, acoustic coupler, alibaba, amazon, amd, android wear, angstrom, app: the human story, apple key, apple music, apple park, apple watch, assistant editor, astropad, berkley, brent simmonds, buddy build, charcoal, chris wagner, clifford stoll, cmd shift j, cobra kai, command key, conte, ctrl opt g, cube, dark matter, de enza, firefly, foundation, gdpr, google, home pod, homestead, infinity loop, intel, interpol, jonathan kuehlein, kim alberg, laurel, microns, modem, montage, motorola, nanometer, omni, option click, paper by 53, pencil, podcast, project navigator, quartz, river, rwdevcon, saskatchewan, serenity, siemens, skytrain, southpark, space channel, standard editor, starlost, stuxnet, susan kare, symantec, t shirts, tacow, test backed development, the expanse, topology eyewear, tulip, usatoday, wolfe, workflow, wwdc, xcode, youtube red

This week we follow up on MTJC 2018 T-Shirts and the origins of Apple's Command Key. We also follow up on the Apple Store founders, Apple's GDPR profile downloads, Apple Watch usage and Apple's self driving cars. We discuss the Home Pod sales numbers, erroneous new Siri features, and a sophisticate worm virus and one of the first Internet hackers. We also chat about Apple's own podcasts and their use of original illustrations on the App Store. Picks: A handy Xcode keyboard shortcut to the Assistant Editor and App: the Human Story, Developing UIViews in Xcode Playgrounds and 1Password 7.

Photo: Tim Mitra
Originally broadcast: May 26th, 2018

Episode 224: Siri, Open The Pod Bay Doors

December 8th, 2018  |  1 hr 13 mins

5g, after dark, air pods, apple, at&t, bandgeek, bath & beyond, bed, behaviors, chanukah, chopin, cocktail party effect, dark castle, dr who, echo, entrepreneurs, esim, federico viticci, florida, flying toasters, freddy mercury, github, google home hub, hawaii, home bridge, home pod, homekit, joe cieplinski, jordan morgan, kansas, luna display, marc martel, miami, myopia, new england patriots, openurl(:_), partitioning, philip shoemaker, please don’t touch, qi, qualcomm, queen, rene richie, seattle, settings, siri, siri shortcuts, steve hackett, steve walsh, system 6.0.8, washinton dc, wendies, wireless charging, workflow, wwdc, xcode, xmas, ḥanukah

We discuss using Siri to access application settings in our #askMTJC. We fact check on Indian Partitioning dates. We follow up on Apple Music arriving on Amazon’s Echo, Apple vs Qualcomm trial date set, 5G iPhone maybe as late as 2020, wireless charging for AirPods and AT&T first to support eSim. We discuss changing laws with GitHub pull requests. Apple's program for women entrepreneur developers. Siri Shortcuts Not Working for many people. Real-time text support for Wi-Fi calling. Touch ID used in app scams to bilk users. Picks: Xcode Short Cuts, Run macOS on iPad, Play Retro Dark Castle on iPad with System 6.0.8, Optimizing Siri on HomePod in Far‑Field Settings

Episode 197: Dub Dub San Jose: WWDC Crystal Ball

June 2nd, 2018  |  1 hr 40 mins

1password, 360 idev, aaron douglas, agilebits, airplay 2, altconf, animoji, ashley nelson-hornstein, ats, auttomatic, basso, borg, buddy build, burrito, castle, cherry picking, chip & pin, clifford stoll, cloud kit, curtis herbert, dark mode, dispatch queue, drag and drop, dub dub san jose, eddie cue, energy efficiency, ethernet adapter, fastlane, felix krause, flappy birds, flappy filipe, font, git k, home pod, https, hybrid apps, icloud, imac pro, imessage, ish, john gruber, jony ive, kgb, kline bottles, letraset, loop bash, marco armet, mchenry, metal, metal by tutorials, mobius, moscone, ncr, nova, panic, qos, quebec, rebase, rob napier, safari, san francisco, san jose, saroush, secure id, security kit, selfie, siri, siri kit, size class, sjmacindie, source tree, susan kare, tencode ten, tiny wings, tmobile, true depth camera, typeface, vesa, watch faces, wey han, wireless debugging, workflow, wwdc, wwdc parties, xcode 3d, xcode bots

We are joined by Greg Heo as we look ahead and suggest what Apple may introduce at WWDC 2018. We follow up on the Command key icon, castle connection, as well as Clifford Stoll and the Cockoo's Egg. Jaime uncovers ⌘+Ctrl+Shift+H to find a methods callers. Tim relays early experience drawing and designing typefaces in the early days of Mac. AirPlay 2 gives the HomePod the ability to have multi-room and stereo audio. HomePod launching in Canada, France, and Germany. Felix Krause thinks apps should be in a network sandbox. App Insight attempts to expose 3rd party framework use. Genius Bar Broke an iMac Pro. We lay down our best guesses about where Apple will go with WWDC 2018. Picks: How to debug your mobile hybrid app on iOS, Beacon - Signal Availability by Ashley Nelson-Hornstein, Prioritize Work with Quality of Service Classes.

Episode 196: Test Backed Development

May 26th, 2018  |  1 hr 22 mins

1password, a12 processor, acoustic coupler, alibaba, amazon, amd, android wear, angstrom, app: the human story, apple key, apple music, apple park, apple watch, assistant editor, astropad, berkley, brent simmonds, buddy build, charcoal, chris wagner, clifford stoll, cmd shift j, cobra kai, command key, conte, ctrl opt g, cube, dark matter, de enza, firefly, foundation, gdpr, google, home pod, homestead, infinity loop, intel, interpol, jonathan kuehlein, kim alberg, laurel, microns, modem, montage, motorola, nanometer, omni, option click, paper by 53, pencil, podcast, project navigator, quartz, river, rwdevcon, saskatchewan, serenity, siemens, skytrain, southpark, space channel, standard editor, starlost, stuxnet, susan kare, symantec, t shirts, tacow, test backed development, the expanse, topology eyewear, tulip, usatoday, wolfe, workflow, wwdc, xcode, youtube red

This week we follow up on MTJC 2018 T-Shirts and the origins of Apple's Command Key. We also follow up on the Apple Store founders, Apple's GDPR profile downloads, Apple Watch usage and Apple's self driving cars. We discuss the Home Pod sales numbers, erroneous new Siri features, and a sophisticate worm virus and one of the first Internet hackers. We also chat about Apple's own podcasts and their use of original illustrations on the App Store. Picks: A handy Xcode keyboard shortcut to the Assistant Editor and App: the Human Story, Developing UIViews in Xcode Playgrounds and 1Password 7.

Episode 192: The Quadruple One

April 28th, 2018  |  1 hr 49 mins

1.1.1.1, 2018 ipad, amazon echo, amiga, amphibians, apoo, apple give back, automator, avengers: infinity wars, aziz ansari, bell, benjamin jarvy, birds, blade runner 2049, chris adamson, cloud flare, codemonkey, comcast, cornetto, daisy, ellis island, fishes, futurama, game of thrones, gazelle, halt & catch fire, iphone se x, jessica jones, jurassic park, kal penn, kim’s convenience, lacrosse, layers 2015, lcbo, liam, lost in space, maple leaf square, medieval techsupport, mel blanc, michael geist, net neutrality, orchard, pot, privacy policy, ray allen, reactive, ready player one, realm, realm cloud, revolution in the valley, rogers, sailfish, scratch, sean of the dead, short circuit, silicon valley, silmarillion, simpholders, skydive, speedy gonzalez, spockcast, susan kare, swaffa, targaryens, terry o’reilly, texas instruments, the canadian dream, the great canadian tripod, the jefferson’s, the problem with apu, the quadruple one, the simpsons, they came from behind, this i know, time warner, true depth camera, tsmc, vodaphone, westworld, workflow

This week we are joined by Marin Todorov to discuss his new book and apps. We follow up on Flight School's meaning, an iPad screen protector vendor leaks the 2018 model, downloading your Google profile and Marin relays European ISP experiences. The last Apple Watch boutique is closing. We also follow up on Susan Kare: the woman who gave the Mac its smile. We discuss the new trade-in program with Apple GiveBack, Daisy: Apple’s new iPhone-recycling robot, FoundationDB is Open Source and Marin's book - Realm: Building Modern Swift Apps with Realm Database. Picks: 5 Useful 3D Touch Features for iPhone, Snipetty, Bringing Objective-C to the Amiga, How to build your own Alexa skills with the new Alexa Blueprints, Xcode Treasures: Master the Tools to Design, Build, and Distribute Great Apps, Mixpanel v. 3.3.0 - opt in/out at run time