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- Episode 34: Rob Rix
Mathemæsthete Rob Rix joins Phil and Dan to talk about his interests in functional programming, making the Swift language do things it was not meant to, strongly-typed languages, cats, and hula-hooping.
Load EpisodeDownload this podcast. - Episode 33: Jonathan Penn
Author, musician and all-around Cocoa expert Jonathan Penn joins Dan & Phil to chat about experiments in learning, writing books, real-life prototyping, the origins of Rubber City, and the Quantified Self.
Load EpisodeDownload this podcast. - Episode 32: Matt Klosterman
Matt Klosterman of Infofission chats with Phil and Dan about building apps that help people and businesses succeed. When he is not building apps for the Apple Watch, Matt enjoys photography and documents his trials and opinions at camvergence.com. We also speculate on how the Apple Watch can integrate into your life beyond photography, thinking about how context-aware the watch could be compared to your phone.
Load EpisodeDownload this podcast. - Episode 31: Chris Liscio
One-man-band Chris Liscio from SuperMegaUltraGroovy joins Phil and Dan to talk about the research that went into Capo's chord detection, how his VIP users influence the product, translating symbolic Matlab into Objective-C and Swift, and playing music in general.
Load EpisodeDownload this podcast. - Episode 30: Ashley Nelson-Hornstein
Dropbox iOS engineer Ashley Nelson-Hornstein chats with Phil and Dan about the challenges of multiple file formats, attempting to learn C++ in 21 days at age 11, working in rotation teams at Apple, how to adapt quickly in a startup environment, the Apple Watch and organized sports.
Load EpisodeDownload this podcast. - Episode 29: Jim Dalrymple
The Loop's Jim Dalrymple joins Dan and Phil in a discussion about the state of Apple-centric blogs, how he coins the world's shortest and highly-cited three-letter posts, and, of course, playing several guitars.
Load EpisodeDownload this podcast. - Episode 28: Georgia Dow
Keynote speaker Georgia Dow of iMore chats with Dan and Phil about multi-media and podcasts, CES, psychotherapy and type-A personalities, and shares her excitement about the Apple Watch. It might also be the first time that falconry is mentioned on a tech podcast.
Load EpisodeDownload this podcast. - Episode 27: Mark Pavlidis
Flixel engineer Mark Pavlidis joins Phil and Dan to discuss software engineering graduate studies, debugging code on set at America's Next Top Model, and, of course fussy coffee-making. Stay tuned until the end for a special announcement regarding #nerdlearn, a Toronto-based event on February 19th all about the Apple Watch.
Load EpisodeDownload this podcast. - Episode 26: Christa Mrgan
Rogue Amoeba's designer Christa Mrgan chats with Dan and Phil about designing visual interfaces for sound effects, prototyping fun at AppCamp4Girls, and the constant dream of remodeling the house.
Load EpisodeDownload this podcast. - Episode 25: JP Simard
From the offices of Realm in San Francisco, Ottawa-native Jean-Pierre "JP" Simard joins Phil and Dan to chat about re-inventing mobile databases, the Summer of Swift and some ideas about the future of mobile development.
Load EpisodeDownload this podcast. - Episode 24: Vanessa Logan
Dan & Phil are joined by Sago Sago's Technical Artist Vanessa Logan to discuss creating mobile games for children that adults will also enjoy, how to run a play-testing group and a very special kind of antique containing microphotographs.
Load EpisodeDownload this podcast. - Episode 23: Gordon Fontenot
From snowy Boston, thoughtbot's own Gordon Fontenot chats with Dan and Phil about the recent re-discovery of functional programming, how Swift may change the landscape of Apple development, contributing via podcasts and open-source projects, and a little bit of baseball.
Load EpisodeDownload this podcast. - Episode 22: Ash Lindquist
All the way from across the globe and the hemispheres, we are joined this week by Ash Lindquist of Storybird to talk about learning quickly how to build iOS apps, transferring your skills to a distributed team, and how to make the best of a working vacation down under.
Load EpisodeDownload this podcast. - Episode 21: A Special Message from Dan and Phil
We are very excited about NSNorth 2015 and we give you a behind-the-scenes look at what led us to create the most ambitious NSNorth yet.
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