The Record

This episode was recorded 26 May 2014 live and in person at Brent’s office in sunny, lovely Ballard. You can download the m4a file or subscribe in iTunes. (Or subscribe to the podcast feed.) Brent has worked at UserLand Software and NewsGator and as an indie at his company Ranchero Software. These days he’s one-third of Q Branch, where he writes Vesper. He is also the co-host of this podcast. This episode is sponsored by Tagcaster. Tagcaster is not just another podcast client — it solves the age-old problem of linking to specific parts of a podcast. You can make clips — short audio excerpts — and share them and link to them. After all these years, that problem is finally solved. This episode is also sponsored by Igloo. Igloo is an intranet you’ll actually like, with shared calendars, microblogs, file-sharing, social networking, and more. It’s free for up 10 users — give it a try for your company or your team today. This episode is also sponsored by Hover. Hover makes domain name management easy. And it’s a snap to transfer domains from other registrars using their valet service. Get 10% off your first purchase with the promotional code MANILA. (Manila was the name of the blogging system worked on at UserLand.) Take a look. Things we mention, more or less in order of appearance: NetNewsWireMarsEditGlassboardVesperManilaThe University of ChicagoDuPontPunched cardsUniversity of DelawareNewark, DelawareFortran1980Apple II PlusPLATOBrent's Mom6502 Assembly80 column cardALF IIMusic Construction SetBeatlesRolling StonesPil OchsJudy CollinsBoby DylanWest Side StoryHair Broadway SoundtrackDelicious LibraryEpson MX-80Columbia House RecordsCindy LauperBorn in the USAThe ClashLondon CallingPascalEvergreen State College19921989Seattle Central Community CollegeCity CollegianQuarkXpressLaserWriterMac IIcxRadius monitorSiloGoodwillSymantec CGrenoble, FranceMicrosoft WordMicrosoft ExcelSeattleBoeingPhotovoltaicsUniversity of WashingtonInstitut de Biologie StructuraleCEACNRSAlps (the mountains)GopherPineInternational Herald TribuneKronenbourgKillian’s RedIsère RiverChinook'sEskimo dial-up accountZtermLynxAltaVistaSeanetMacTCPMacPPPAppleTalkYahooInfo-Mac ArchiveKagiMaelstromPerforma 604After DarkBungieAndrew WelchUsenetfuckingblocksyntax.comDave WinerUserLand Frontier Aretha releaseUserLand SoftwareAppleScriptHyperCardWebSTARMacPerlMySQLSpotlightFilemaker ProIndianapolis Star NewsWoodside, CAJake SavinSan FranciscoRobert ScobleMillbraePalo AltoWindowsVisual StudioCodeWarriorPowerPlantMacAppToolboxXcodeProject BuilderCarbonQuickDrawOpen TransportManilaEditThisPage.comDaily Kosjoel.editthispage.comAaron Hillegass’s Book on CocoaRadio UserLandPythonMacNewsWireRSSWebKitSafariMSIE for MacCaminoNetNewsWire 1.0 screen shotRealBasicBBEdit LiteTextWranglerCarmen’s Headline ViewerSyndirellaAmphetaDeskMy.Netscape.ComSafari/RSSEctoMovable TypeMac OS X ServerNewsGatorPalm TreoFeedDemonNick BradburyGreg ReinackerOutlookTapLynxPush IOSepia LabsCultured Code and ThingsBlack PixelRed SweaterOracleJustin WiliamsNetNewsWire Lite 4.0 for MacintoshVesper Sync DiaryWWDCParc 55

This episode was recorded 6 May 2014 live and in person at Brent’s office in lovely, sunny Ballard. You can download the m4a file or subscribe in iTunes. (Or subscribe to the podcast feed.) Chris has worked at Adobe and as a founder of Rogue Sheep, which won an Apple Design Award for Postage. Chris’s new company is Aged & Distilled with Guy English — which shipped Napkin, a Mac app for visual collaboration. Chris is also the co-host of The Record. He lives on Bainbridge Island, a quick ferry ride from Seattle. This episode is sponsored by Tagcaster. Tagcaster is not just another podcast client — it solves the age-old problem of linking to specific parts of a podcast. You can make clips — short audio excerpts — and share them and link to them. After all these years, that problem is finally solved. This episode is also sponsored by Igloo. Igloo is an intranet you’ll actually like, with shared calendars, microblogs, file-sharing, social networking, and more. It’s free for up 10 users — give it a try for your company or your team today. This episode is also sponsored by Hover. Hover makes domain name management easy. And it’s a snap to transfer domains from other registrars using their valet service. Get 10% off your first purchase with the promotional code PANIC. As in “Don’t Panic! Use Hover.” Take a look. Things we mention, more or less in order of appearance: OklahomaWikipediaThe shopping cartRustHomestead ActPongAtari 2600President CarterPinochleRepublicansDemocratsApple IIApple II Reference ManualFloppy DisksOdyssey: The Compleat AdventureMarcoEpson MX-80 dot matrix printerParallel portBASICApple II graphics modesLiteBriteApple II Star Wars gameAssemblerText adventure gamesPaper appGraph paperMerlin assemblerPascal compiler for Apple IILocksmith for Apple IIApple II copy protectionRadio ShackROM chipsTin foilAlligator clipsThe Complete Graphics SystemThe IncomparableMike Lee on The RecordSATsUniversity of OklahomaLaserWriterLinotronic image setterThe ClampettsThe JoadsSeattleLas VegasBelltownCapitol HillEverettQueen AnneMagnoliaAdobeMicrosoftWindowsX-Wing video game8086 Assembly languageMicrosoft DOSSierra On-LinePowerBook DuoApple IIGSThink CSegaCD-ROMsPostscriptPagemakerQuarkAldusPioneer Square1995JavaNatural Intelligence Roaster IDEIllustratorQA PartnerTest-Driven DevelopmentInDesignCOMMatt JossVersion control2001SourceSafeVisual StudioC++OpenDoc Resource CompilerSharepointAzureFrameMakerRogue SheepCMYK separationOptical character alignmentUniversity of WashingtonHITLabGel ElectrophoresisJeff ArgastPowerPointWestern blotsThe GuardianBush AdministrationPostageTwitterrificBrad EllisLehman BrothersJake CarterCocoaQuartz ComposerMotionAfter EffectsKyle RichterIan BairdIAPRickenbacker’sThe House of ShieldsJohn GruberDave WiskusNapkinGuy EnglishThomas UnterbergerC4United LemurWorld CupBrazilWWDCSan FranciscoNetNewsWire1999Eddy awards

This episode was recorded 17 May 2013 live and in person at Omni’s beautiful offices overlooking Lake Union in Seattle. You can download the m4a file or subscribe in iTunes. (Or subscribe to the podcast feed.) Mike Lee, Appsterdam founder, has worked at Alaska Airlines, Delicious Monster (with Wil Shipley), Apple, and is now Chief Lemur at New Lemurs. This episode is sponsored by Hover. Hover makes domain name management easy. And it’s a snap to transfer domains from other registrars using their valet service. Get 10% off your first purchase with the promotional code BMF. (BMF -- Be My Friend — is Mike Lee’s Twitter handle.) You notice how people with a lot of domains are always talking about Hover? It’s because of their excellent service. Take a look. This episode is also sponsored by Microsoft Azure Mobile Services. Mobile Services is a great way to provide backend services — syncing and other things — for your iPhone, iPad, and Mac apps. It’s high level — you can get more done with less work. It’s also deep: write JavaScript in your favorite text editor. Test with mocha. Deploy with git. Things we mention, in order of appearance (mostly): Kurt CobainGrungeHonoluluHawaiiUniversity of Puget SoundTacomaPuget SoundAlaska AirlinesSeaTacLead ramp agentSkilled labor1993Choose Your Own AdventureDHTMLFlashWeb Standards ProjectXMLJavaC#DotNetMacintoshPCMicrosoftWindowsWindows 95Mac OS XTerrorist watch listWWDCJavaOneObjective-CXcode20052001Renoir HotelWWDC Student ScholarshipWil ShipleyWil Shipley’s Speech on the Indie DreamDevryFedExCore DataBill BumgarnerFederal WayI-5Delicious LibraryApple Design AwardCampus BashDenny’sOmni GroupRumpus RoomApple StoreBarnes & NobleLucas NewmanMike MatasKnoxvilleSamuraiYoko OnoSeattle XcodersGus MuellerHeisenberg Uncertainty PrincipleDave WinerSupermanIL 7John GeleynseLemur ChemistryCabel Sasser“Hi, I Make Macintosh Software” T-shirtaltWWDCDebug podcastTapulousTap Tap RevengeiFartDTSIL 3Caffè MacsRandsMatt DranceMichael Jurewitz

This episode was recorded 16 May 2013 live and in person at Omni’s lovely offices overlooking Lake Union in Seattle. You can download the m4a file or subscribe in iTunes. (Or subscribe to the podcast feed.) Nat Irons has worked at Apple Developer Relations, as a WebObjects consultant, and as IT director at The Stranger. He’s now QA Manager at Black Pixel. He once delivered pizza to The Far Side author Gary Larson. This episode is sponsored by Igloo. Igloo is an intranet you’ll actually like, with shared calendars, microblogs, file-sharing, social networking, and more. It’s free for up 10 users — give it a try for your company or your team today. This episode is also sponsored by Microsoft Azure Mobile Services. Mobile Services is a great way to provide backend services — syncing and other things — for your iPhone, iPad, and Mac apps. It’s high level — you can get more done with less work. Things we mention, in-order-of-appearance-ish: Lode RunnerDark CastleWindowsBostonSan FranciscoBerkeley, CABay AreaHigh schoolSeattleTim EymanSit & SpinBlogger MeetupNatty Bumppobumppo.netJames Fenimore CooperLeatherstocking TalesMichael MannDaniel Day LewisLast of the Mohicans movieAOL chatroomsBerkeley Macintosh User Group (BMUG)BBSFirst Class BBSTim HolmesPurple HarleyBMUG NewsletterModemsHeidi RoizenBleeding in six colorsTwitterBoloSpectreStuart CheshireVirtual RealityBonjourZeroConfCheshire CatStuart LittleAlicePERLExcelMac OS 9iMacFloppy driveADBUSBNeXTRhapsodyUNIXTerminal.appBBEditSE/30Apple in middle of menubarMPWMacPerlLatent Semantic Mapping (LSM)Regular expressionsWWDCHomer Simpson in The Land of ChocoloateSchadenfreudeMacInTouchNPRMicrosoftMicrosoft invests in Apple and pledges to keep developing Office for MacPowerbook G3Filemaker ProClarisMicrosoft AccessBentoApple eventsFarallonChuck ShottonWebSTARMacHTTPStarNineQuarterdeckApacheOpen TransportXcodeWebObjectsJavaBill BumgarnerObjective-C categoriesSSH tunnels1999Redmond2000Maria CantwellKing CountyPierce CountyEastern Washington secessionShorelineQueen AnneBallardMagnoliaDiscovery ParkCapitol HillPagliacci Pizza2003Sand PointGary LarsonDumbledoreThe Far SideSan Francisco Academy of SciencesWorkmen’s CompensationVirgina Mason20012002Upcoming.orgSeattle WeeklyDan SavageThe RocketLynda BarryLife in HellMatt GroeningEvergreen State CollegeUniversity Village Apple StoreSeattle XcodersDave WinerDaniel PascoC4Paul GorackeBlack Pixel job listings

This episode was recorded 16 May 2013 live and in person at Omni’s lovely offices overlooking Lake Union in Seattle. (Check out the OmniFocus 2 public beta!) You can download the m4a file or subscribe in iTunes. (Or subscribe to the podcast feed.) John Chaffee is a co-founder of BusyMac which makes the awesome BusyCal. John talks about being a Mac developer in the ’90s, what it was like at Now Software, and how he got tired of mobile and came back to the Mac. This episode is sponsored by Squarespace. Easily create beautiful websites via drag-and-drop. Get help any time from their 24/7 technical support. Create responsive websites — ready for phones and tablets — without any extra effort: Squarespace’s designers have already handled it for you. Get 10% off by going to http://squarespace.com/therecord. And, if you want to get under the hood, check out their APIs at developers.squarespace.com. This episode is also sponsored by Microsoft Azure Mobile Services. Mobile Services is a great way to provide backend services — syncing and other things — for your iPhone, iPad, and Mac apps. If you’ve been to the website already, you’ve seen the tutorials where you input code into a browser window. And that’s an easy way to get started. But don’t be fooled: Mobile Services is deep. You can write in JavaScript in your favorite text editor and deploy via Git. Good stuff. Things we mention, in order of appearance (roughly): BusyMacBusyCalNow SoftwareExtensisFarallonSplashDataPhoneNet connectorsAppleTalkBerkeley Mac Users Group (BMUG)Berkeley, CAQAA/UXDesktop publishingMac iiciSCSISanta BarbaraMac StorePagemakerMac 512VIP TechnologiesAtari STApple IIgsLotus 1-2-3TaxesMac SE/30PortlandBay AreaSan JoseSystem 71991Now UtilitiesDave RiggleClarisMacWriteFilemaker ProBento1990Macworld ExpoFloppy disksiCalNow Up-to-DateMacworld Expo BostonCompuserveWindowsAltura Mac2WinQualcommOsborne EffectDotcom BubbleAldus FetchQuarkMacMallOnOne Software1999Adobe InDesignOpenDocMac OS XCarbonAppKitNetNewsWireOffice SpaceGetty ImagesPhotoDisx2001Palm PDAHandspring VisorPalmGearHandangoSplashPhotoSplashMoneySplashIDSplashShopperSplashWalletWindows MobileSymbianAndroidSplashBlogInstagram2006SixApartMovable Type2007Mac App StoreBusyCal, LLCGoogleWWDCRSSSafari/RSSGoogle (Partly) Shuts Down CalDAVMobileMeSyncServicesiCloudSandboxingJCPenney’sApple Pulls out of MacworldTwitterAirPlayApple TVType A PersonalityDomain Name SystemBusySyncHotSynciCloud Core Data SyncingiCloud Key/Value StorageActiveSyncExchangeWebServiceBlackberry

This episode was recorded 17 May 2013 live and in person at Omni’s lovely offices overlooking Lake Union in Seattle. You can download the m4a file or subscribe in iTunes. (Or subscribe to the podcast feed.) Tim Wood, CTO of The Omni Group, talks about how Omni got started and what it was like being a NeXT developer before the acquisition. This episode is sponsored by Squarespace. Easily create beautiful websites via drag-and-drop. Get help any time from their 24/7 technical support. Create responsive websites — ready for phones and tablets — without any extra effort: Squarespace’s designers have already handled it for you. Get 10% off by going to http://squarespace.com/therecord. And, if you want to get under the hood, check out their APIs at developers.squarespace.com. This episode is also sponsored by Microsoft Azure Mobile Services. Mobile Services is a great way to provide backend services — syncing and other things — for your iPhone, iPad, and Mac apps. If you’ve been to the website already, you’ve seen the tutorials where you input code into a browser window. And that’s an easy way to get started. But don’t be fooled: Mobile Services is deep. You can write in your favorite text editor and deploy via Git. Regular-old Git, not Git#++. Git. Things we mention, in order of appearance (more or less): Atari 800 BASIC Tacoma, WA Commodore Apple II 6502 Assembler Atari ST Compute! Magazine Burroughs Mainframes Radio Shack NeXT Mac University of Washington H19 Terminal Fortran Mathematica LaTeX Java Ada Boeing Department of Defense VMS IBM 360 Objective-C AppKit Interface Builder Project Builder Makefiles Read-write Optical drives Wil Shipley Ken Case Greg Titus Tom Bunch Massively multiplayer games Minecraft MOOs MUSHes CompuServe Ultima Online William Morris Agency McCaw Cellular 1992 Framemaker Adobe Lighthouse Design Diagram! OmniGraffle 1994 www.app OmniWeb Blink tag Rocky & Bullwinkle Rhapsody Hewlett Packard Sun OpenStep Solaris Windows NT Be Jean-Louis Gasée Enterprise Objects Framework Core Data Avie Tevanian Jon Rubinstein Bertrand Serlet Craig Federighi Appletalk Yellow Box HP-UX Andrew Stone Doom Id Software Wil’s mail OpenGL John Carmack DirectX OmniOutliner Comic Life NCSA GCD Blocks Functional programming Mac Pro Go Rust Race conditions OmniPresence Own the Wheel iCloud Core Data Syncing Rich Siegel Yojimbo Sync Services

This episode was recorded 16 May 2013 live and in person at Omni’s lovely offices overlooking Lake Union in Seattle. You can download the m4a file or subscribe in iTunes. (Or subscribe to the podcast feed.) Paul Goracke is a senior staff engineer at Black Pixel, where he works on things he can’t talk about but that you’ve used. He’s also a former instructor at the University of Washington’s Cocoa development program, and has at times been the lead organizer of the Seattle Xcoders. This episode is sponsored by Squarespace. Get 10% off by going to http://squarespace.com/therecord. Better still: go work for Squarespace! They’re hiring 30 engineers and designers by March 15, and, “When you interview at Squarespace, we’ll invite you and your spouse or partner to be New Yorkers for a weekend—on us.” The great designers at Squarespace have designed an entire weekend for you, from dining at Alder to going to the Smalls Jazz Club and visiting The New Museum. Seriously cool deal at beapartofit.squarespace.com. This episode is also sponsored by Microsoft Azure Mobile Services. Mobile Services is a great way to provide backend services — syncing and other things — for your iPhone, iPad, and Mac apps. Write code — Javascript code — in your favorite text editor on your Mac. (Mobile Services runs Node.js.) Deploy via git. Write unit tests using mocha (or your tool of choice). Supports authenticating via Twitter, Facebook, and Google — and you can roll your own system. It’s cool. Things we mention, in order of appearance (more or less): CodeWarriorSIOUX-WASTETextEdit 32K limitWASTEUsenetMetrowerks RonJohn DaubCompact DiscsAdobeMacTech on SIOUXWorldScriptUnicodeUTF-8PowerPCApprentice CDsDNA sequencersCaliforniaStanfordSun workstationPCMinnesotaEgghead SoftwareNFR copiesThink CThink C ReferenceLearn C on the MacintoshInside MacScott Knaster bookUltimate Mac Programming GuideApple eventsInside OLE4th DimensionGuy KawasakiApple IIAtariCommodoreVisiCalcBASICNibble magazineElephant DisksBeagle Bros.ByteTRS-80Creative Computing6502C pointersfseekApple IIeApple IIgsLemonade StandToken rings1994The Computer StorePowerbook 180FilemakerSQLHyperCardMystBroderbundSierra On-LineKing’s QuestPowerPlantFlashJavaScriptJava AppletRemote Method InvocationJava Native InterfaceWindows NTClasspathsBioinformaticsPerluse strictBerkeley DBMySQLRedHat LinuxEmacsQuartz ComposerGrokForthSeattle Xcoders20042005NSCoder NightCocoaHeadsPirate flagAdvanced Mac OS X Programming bookGus MuellerRogue SheepMacBUOmniGroupdBugLucas NewmanMike LeeWil ShipleyGolden BraeburnJoe HeckHal MuellerWWDCLuauSFMacIndie PartyJillian’sJacqui ChengClint EckerGuy EnglishC4NeXTBeOSUW SalvageSubversionVersionsJohn FlansburghNorthside

This episode was recorded 17 May 2013 live and in person at Omni’s lovely offices overlooking Lake Union in Seattle. You can download the m4a file or subscribe in iTunes. (Or subscribe to the podcast feed.) Gus Mueller, Flying Meat founder, created VoodooPad (now at Plausible Labs) and Acorn, the image editor for humans. Gus is also responsible for open source software such as FMDB and JSTalk. This episode is sponsored by Squarespace. Get 10% off by going to http://squarespace.com/therecord. Better still: go work for Squarespace! They’re hiring 30 engineers and designers by March 15, and, “When you interview at Squarespace, we’ll invite you and your spouse or partner to be New Yorkers for a weekend—on us.” The great designers at Squarespace have designed an entire weekend for you, from dining at Alder to going to the Smalls Jazz Club and visiting The New Museum. Seriously cool deal at beapartofit.squarespace.com. This episode is also sponsored by Microsoft Azure Mobile Services. Mobile Services is a great way to provide backend services — syncing and other things — for your iPhone, iPad, and Mac apps. Write code — Javascript code — in your favorite text editor on your Mac. (Mobile Services runs Node.js.) Deploy via git. Write unit tests using mocha (or your tool of choice). Supports authenticating via Twitter, Facebook, and Google — and you can roll your own system. It’s cool. Things we mention, in order of appearance (more or less): Rock climbingLuke AdamsonMissouri20012002CocoaApple IIc1993Mac Color ClassicBASICELIZAArtificial IntelligenceAssemblerMissile CommandJavaEric AlbertPerlAnimated GIFsCGIsServer push imagesREALBasicPCApple IIeDOSColossal CavesPloverNibbleCivilizationUNIXAIXA/UXSt. LouisColumbiaMath is hardSingle sign-onServletsOS XWWDCRhapsody1995MacPERLNiftyTelnetBBEditFlySketchCoffeePicasso’s bull sketchesVoodooPad22" Cinema DisplayOS X Innovator’s AwardO’ReillyPeter LewisRich SiegelMark AldrittAmbrosiaPanicTransmitAudionO’Reilly Mac OS ConferenceAudio HijackPaul KafasisSubEthaEditMac ProIrelandXMLPDFVictoria’s SecretCaterpillarAdobe InDesignOS X ServerXserveMacintosh G5MacUpdateVersionTrackerQuickDrawKerberosHyperCardObjective-C messaging systemAaron Hillegass’s bookJava-Cocoa bridgeJDBCOracle databases2005SeattleMicrosoftParents Just Don’t UnderstandVancouver, BCB.B. KingSeattle XcodersJoe HeckUniversity of MissouriEvening at AdlerWil ShipleyDaniel JalkutEric PeytonQuicksilverRosynaChicagoDrunkenbatmanAdler PlanetariumC4WolfColin BarrettDelicious GenerationDisco.appMy Dream AppChimera / CaminoSanta ClaraWorld WrappsBuzz AndersenQuartzCore Image FiltersBezier curvesWacomUnit testsAutomated buildsZeroLinkMetrowerks CodeWarriorNeXTBeOSMacintosh PerformaDisplay PostscriptSGIsSun boxesMac OS 8MachTenNetscapeInternet Explorer for Mac OSOutlook ExpressOmniGroupShakespeare’s pizzaPagliacciNeapolitan pizzaEverettFIOSFender StratocasterGarageBandAudioBusAdobe PhotoshopAdobe Photoshop ElementsJSTalkAppleScriptSQLiteWebKitNapkin

This episode was recorded 16 May 2013 live and in person at Omni’s offices overlooking Lake Union in Seattle. You can download the m4a file or subscribe in iTunes. (Or subscribe to the podcast feed.) Greg Robbins is Graphing Calculator co-author (a story you should already know about, that we don’t go over again) and has done such diverse things as bringing translucency to the Mac OS Drag Manager (way back in the ’90s), and writing an open source Objective-C library for Google Data APIs. You can follow Greg on Twitter. This episode is sponsored by Squarespace. Easily create beautiful websites via drag-and-drop. Get help any time from their 24/7 technical support. Create responsive websites — ready for phones and tablets — without any extra effort: Squarespace’s designers have already handled it for you. Get 10% off by going to http://squarespace.com/therecord. And, if you want to get under the hood, check out their APIs at developers.squarespace.com. This episode is also sponsored by Microsoft Azure Mobile Services. Mobile Services is a great way to provide backend services — syncing and other things — for your iPhone, iPad, and Mac apps. If you’ve been to the website already, you’ve seen the tutorials where you input code into a browser window. And that’s an easy way to get started. But don’t be fooled: Mobile Services is deep. You can write in your favorite text editor and deploy via Git. Regular-old Git, not Git#++. Git. Things we mention, in order of appearance (pretty much): Real NetworksGraphing CalculatorGoogleIra Glass on Graphing CalculatorDrag Manager TranslucencyMac OS 7.5.3Drag ManagerAlpha channelsQuartzCopyBitsBlack and white displays68K computersPowerPCBlittingDesktop Pictures1995NeXTOmniAssembly languageDTSNewtonTeletypesBerkeley’s Lawrence Hall of ScienceApple II1979MainframeConcentrationBusboyNolo PressComputerLandBeagle Bros.Integer BASIC80-column cardsApple II PlusApple II Technical ManualHomebrew computersRF InterferenceApple II GSNon-Apple Machines6502 AssemblyMissile Command1992NASANeural networksRobert Hecht-Nielsen1980sVoice recognitionEarth Observing SystemGoddard Space Flight Centercomp.sys.macPascalCMacintosh Progammers Workshop (MPW)Lightspeed C / THINK CLightspeed PascalCodeWarriorPowerPC transitionToolboxInside MacMacintosh Programmers Toolbox AssistantQuickViewHypercardHow to Write Macintosh software by Scott Knaster1990seMateApple QuickTakeSecret About BoxEaster eggsBreakout in 7.5Herman the IguanaPointersRon AvitzurAirplayFront RowWindows VistaMicrosoft OfficeAdobe PhotoshopSeattleRealPlayer1998Rob GlaserMacworld ConferenceMarching extensionsCasady & Greene’s Conflict CatcherCarbonCocoa2002WinAmpAppearance ManagerKaleidoscopeCoplandInternetWorld 1997OpenDocDave WinerQuickdraw GXApple Open Collaborative Environment (AOCE)iCloudLLVMInstrumentsMicrosoft Visual StudioARCC#XcodeEclipseQuickTimeProject BuilderGoogle DesktopSpotlightGoogle Maps for iOS2005Macintosh Business Unit (MacBU)RSSGoogle ReaderGoogle KeepSelf-driving carsGoogle GlassBig dataGoogle Data APIs for Objective-CXMLOAuth

This episode was recorded 22 May 2013 live and in person at Adobe’s offices in Fremont in Seattle. You can download the m4a file or subscribe in iTunes. (Or subscribe to the podcast feed.) John Nack is Principal Product Manager, Adobe Digital Video. He has a blog (definitely worth reading, especially if you use Photoshop) and is @jnack on Twitter. This episode is sponsored by Microsoft Azure Mobile Services. One of the cooler features recently added is the ability to create custom APIs. Originally you were limited to standard operations on your database tables — but now you can design any API you want. This allows you to create a full REST/JSON API that’s tailored to your app, that works as efficiently as possible. (And it’s all in JavaScript. Mobile Services runs Node.js. Write your apps in your favorite text editor on your Mac.) Things we mention, in order of appearance (pretty much): AdobeLiveMotionPhotoshopJohn’s BlogKurt VonnegutGranfalloonsdespair.comCocoa64-bitCarbon 64-bitUnfrozen Cave ManOlive GardenSouth Bend, IndianaTiramisuSt. SebastianBreadsticksMonkeys2005Movable TypeDeBabelizerGifBuilderAnarchie1984Mac2001Algonquin HotelApple IIPCjrASCII ArtClip ArtGoogly EyesBill AtkinsonMacPaintRorschach TestApple II GSGreat BooksQuadra 840AVQuadra AdDirectorSuperCardSøren KierkegaardImmanuel KantNotre DameFootballWindows NTHTMLNew York City1998FlashMacromediaIllustratorNavy ROTCSan FranciscoGoLiveNetNewsWireAfter EffectsThomas KnollCamera RawPhotoshop TouchGermanyPhilistinismPerfectionismVolkswagenCarbon-datingWeb StandardsSVGCSSGus MuellerAcornNeven MrganKhoi VinhCroatiaPortlandJDIHealing BrushBuck RogersCreative CloudFacebookSmugmugWWDCJettaKetchupDeath-marchComic Book GuyJohn Gruber“If you see a stylus, they blew it.”Microsoft SurfaceMetro UIRahm Emmanuel: “You never want a serious crisis to go to waste.”The Mythical Man-MonthContent-Aware FillShawshankInDesignAdobe MagazineNikePageMakerPostscriptSLRLightroomBlack & DeckerDr. EvilLoren BrichterInstagramKickstarterNGOTumblr AcquisitionTroy GaulBlurbThe Onion: Report: 98 Percent Of U.S. Commuters Favor Public Transportation For OthersDataT-1000SyriaMacAppResource ManagerJohn KnollIndustrial Light & MagicQuickTimeOpenDocCorbaOLESnapSeedMac System 6Apple eventsAppleScriptAudio Bus1992“The only time you should start worrying about a soldier is when they stop bitchin’”Alan Kay: “The Mac is the first computer good enough to be criticized.”TapBotsTweetbot 2AndroidKai’s Power ToolsKai KrauseFremontRUN DMCPorsche BoxsterFlavawagonGoogle GlassRobert Scoble

This episode was recorded 15 May 2013 live and in person at The Omni Group’s lovely offices overlooking Lake Union in Seattle. You can download the m4a file or subscribe in iTunes or subscribe to the podcast feed. Luke Adamson is a founder of Toy Rockets. He’s a former instructor at the University of Washington’s iOS and Mac certificate program and a former developer at The Omni Group (where, among other things, he helped create OmniOutliner). This episode is sponsored by Microsoft Azure Mobile Services. Does your app need online services? Syncing? Storage? Mobile Services is the easiest way to get started. Create your own APIs. Write your code using JavaScript (Mobile Services runs Node.js). Store data in a SQL database and/or in blob storage. Develop using your favorite text editor and terminal app on your favorite computer — a Mac. And never ever worry about applying security patches to a server. A trial account is free. Things we mention, in order of appearance (roughly): GophersIdahoMethMaze WarBoise State UNextstationUUCPHPUsenetCommodore 64BASICPascalObjective-CC++Win16AppKitFoundationNSStringUniversity of IdahoThe Omni GroupTexas A&MOmniWebOmniPDFWebObjectsLighthouse DesignDiagram!QuantrixWainscotingEOFStandard & Poor’sMitsubishiToyotaMcCaw CellularOracle 8Craig FederighiBruce ArthurSolarisSybaseG4IrelandQuakeHP-UXDoomJohn CarmackJavaBeOSAdobePowerPCPower ComputingWebscriptLispSwing ToolkitAWTKen CaseTim WoodWil ShipleyGreg TitusAndrew AbernathyTom BunchRetrospectSteve NygardClass-dumpOmniOutlinerVisioRhapsodyOmniGraffleIllustratorMazda RX-7FrontBaseDenmarkCinema DisplaysTiBookEverett, WashingtonBlue hairSub-prime mortgagesBear StearnsDeutsche BankCredit SuisseInternapXserveUbermindDeloitte DigitalSociete GeneralIndiaiOSJailbroken iPhonesLucas Newman