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Developing Perspective
Developing Perspective is a podcast discussing the news of note in iOS Development, Apple and the like. Hosted by David Smith, an independent iOS developer.
Episodes
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#170(#156): Distinctiveness
I’m renumbering the shows going forward. Early on the show’s history I made a few mistakes where I skipped numbers in the ordering. Now the numbers correctly…
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#155: Headroom
I took two weeks off the internet and work. Here are a few of the things I learned from the experience and the changes I’m making in my own life. Invest in…
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#154: Something You Are Proud Of.
It matters that you can make a living — but it matters more how you make your living. Decisions and Tensions
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#153: It’s beginning to look a lot like Christmas.
Talking through some of the implications of the Christmas bump in the App Store. How to prepare for it and some mistakes I’d like to avoid making again…
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#152: Push-Pull Marketing.
Looking at app marketing as a spectrum between push and pull. Each developer needs to decide how much they want to interject themselves into a potential…
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#151: A tree falls in the Woods.
Some lessons and storytelling about the extended outage Feed Wrangler experienced this past weekend.
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#150: Five Years in the App Store
A retrospective on the lessons I’ve learned from 5 years working in the App Store. Five Years in the App Store
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#149: Audits.
An overview of my experience surviving my first government audit and how I try to take a very conservative approach to accounting and tax compliance.
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#148: Trading in Pork Bellies.
A few lessons for Tuesday’s keynote. We are living in the world of commodity software. The faster we adapt and react to that the better we will be able to…
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#147: Our Retina Futures.
Wrap up from Cingleton. Initial reactions and thoughts about Tip Jar In-App Purchases. Some predictions and thoughts about next week’s Apple event.
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#146: Get up, Get Moving.
Looking for unique opportunities and taking risks. Embracing experimentation. The importance of getting up and moving. The Prompt: The Mind of the Underscore…
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#145: Real World Price Dynamics with Lauren Smith.
With all the recent discussion about App Store pricing and the sustainability of making a living from the Store I thought it might be constructive to bring…
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#144: Pod Wrangler and Getting Creative.
Thursday, September 26, 2013 - Introducing Pod Wrangler. Looking for places where you have unique experiences or resources that let you make things faster or…
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#143: Bare Metal.
As an engineer my tendency is to think that all problems are best solved by cleverness. This week I’ve learned that the reality is that I should not try to…
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#142: iPhone 5s/5c First Impressions.
Tuesday, September 10, 2013 - First Impressions on the iPhone 5s/5c event. Generally it met expectations, which makes me very happy.
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#141: Sweeping Statements with Incomplete Information.
Friday, September 06, 2013 - Taking pundit commentary with a grain of salt and a few thoughts about next week’s event. Developing Perspective t-shirt The…
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#140: Managing Beta Testing.
Friday, August 30, 2013 - Announcing the first ever Developing Perspective t-shirt. A discussion about how I beta test my apps to get them ready for the store…
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#139: Transferring Apps and Affiliate Linking.
Wednesday, August 21, 2013 - Understanding the App Transfer process and an overview of Apple’s new affiliate marketing system. #72: Mistakes, Designing Icons…
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#138: The New World.
Friday, August 16, 2013 - Walking through the tricky decision I have made about dropping support for iOS 6 in a lot of my adds. What the new ‘cheaper’ iPhone…
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#137: Catastrophic Failure
Thursday, August 08, 2013 - A behind-the-scenes look at what it was like to respond to a catastrophic database migration that took down Feed Wrangler. What…
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#136: The iOS 7 Conundrum.
Friday, August 02, 2013 - The release of iOS 7 “This Fall” brings with it a number of challenges. In this episode I try to unpack the tensions between market…
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#135: Choices.
Friday, July 26, 2013 - Grab-bag episode. The Developer Portal outage. Deciding the kind of business you want to run. Leverging your past solutions to new…
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#134: Useful Toys.
Friday, July 19, 2013 - The important and useful role that test projects can serve. How I re-wrote SimpleGram to learn about iOS 7. Using SQLite for…
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#133: Two Years and Principles of Solid Design.
Celebrating 2 years of Developing Perspective. 38 hours of me jabbering on about development. Thanks for putting up with me. Discussing a few principles of…
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#132: Embracing the Future.
Friday, July 05, 2013 - How to get yourself ready for iOS 7 and the changes it will bring. My strategy for using iOS 7 in my daily life. Approaching iOS 7…
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#131: The Greatest Good for the Greatest Number.
Friday, June 28, 2013 - Some reflections on a crazy week scaling Feed Wrangler and the often difficult choices that result of trying to build good products…in…
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#130: WWDC Final Impressions.
Friday, June 14, 2013 - My overall impressions from the week of WWDC 2013. Lots of opportunities and difficult decisions for developers going forward. Be bold…
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#129: WWDC 2013 First Impressions
Monday, June 10, 2013 - My first impressions from this morning’s Keynote. I recorded this directly after the announcements so that I could talk freely before…
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#128: WWDC Tips and Etiquette.
Thursday, June 06, 2013 General Tips Casey’s WWDC Tips Jeff LaMarche First Timer’s Guide Pick up your badge Sunday Have questions prepared for the Labs Don’t…
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#127: Hopes for iOS7
Thursday, May 30, 2013 - Some of my hopes and desires for what will be unveiled at WWDC regarding iOS 7.
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#126: Scaling.
Thursday, May 23, 2013 - A quick survey of my preparation for and process of scaling a backend webservice. Also walk through the process setting up useful…
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#125: Invisible App Store Hands.
Friday, May 17, 2013 - My take on our Semi-Annual discussion about App Store pricing and whether things should change in the Stores.
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#124: Fear and Learning.
Friday, May 10, 2013 - My experience of fear and insecurity whenever I launch something and some of the coping mechanisms that I’ve had to developed to get…
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#123: Introducing Feed Wrangler.
Thursday, May 02, 2013 - Introducing Feed Wrangler, my latest product. I talk through some of the motivations behind it and how it works. I also talk through…
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#122: A Few thoughts on WWDC 2013.
Wednesday, April 24, 2013 - A few thoughts about this mornings announcement of WWDC 2013 and the way they are handling tickets this year. WWDC Tickets WWDC…
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#121: Dealing with Rejection.
Tuesday, April 23, 2013 - How I deal with the app rejection process, things to look out for and how to act. Napkin App ADN Invite Link
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#120: Setting up an App Store Developer Account.
Monday, April 15, 2013 - I walk through the process of setting initially setup to distribute apps within the App Store. Apple Walkthrough
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#119: Go Big or Ship?
Friday, April 12, 2013 - Thinking about App Store rejections. Building reliable, queue based app components. Whether it is better to build out everything you…
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#118: Ambitious.
Tuesday, April 09, 2013 - Talking through one crazy week. The wisdom or folly of attacking ambitious goals. Why you want to own your sync solution. What’s next.
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#117: Avoid, Defer, Remember.
Tuesday, April 02, 2013 - How I approach improving the performance of my apps, products and my work more generally.
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#116: Competing with rather than against.
Thursday, March 21, 2013 - Some thoughts on how to manage splitting your attention and not going crazy. Then developing a healthy view on competition. Ash…
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#115: Pitching the Press with Shawn Blanc
Monday, March 18, 2013 - I take a break from the usual 15 minute show format and talk with writer Shawn Blanc about interacting with the press. We discuss how…
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#114: Google Reader and Feed Wrangler.
Thursday, March 14, 2013 - I unpack the news that Google Reader is being killed off and pre-announce my next big project, Feed Wrangler. Feed Wrangler is an…
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#113: The One vs The Many.
Tuesday, March 12, 2013 - Thinking out loud about the challenges and dynamics of working by yourself versus working with others.
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#112: Servers, Servers Everywhere.
Friday, March 08, 2013 - How I manage my server infrastructure and a few things I’ve learned. RailsCasts Recipes for provisioning servers Linode (affiliate…
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#111: In it for the long haul.
Tuesday, March 05, 2013 - Talking about how to handle upgrades of older apps and dealing with burn out. My website, David-Smith.org
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#110: Stay in School.
Monday, February 25, 2013 - Answering a question about the values of a university education and some advice about what to do while you are there. Then, a…
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Marco Arment. Infinite Potential.
Monday, February 18, 2013 - A conversation with Marco Arment. Marco.org Marco on Twitter Marco on App.Net Instapaper The Magazine TextMate 2 Beta Soulver
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#108: Negotiating.
Friday, February 15, 2013 - A discussion about some lessons I’ve learned in how to negotiate. Interview with Brent Simmons My Article about Negotiating
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Brent Simmons. The Village Toymaker.
Tuesday, February 12, 2013 - An interview with Brent Simmons of Ranchero software. Inessential, Brent’s Blog Identical Cousins, Brent’s Podcast Azure Heroku…
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#107: Adoption Rates and Reasons for Independence.
Wednesday, February 06, 2013 - iOS Adoption rates and the age old question of when to drop old OSs. A discussion recommending the Identical Cousins podcast and…
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#106: Fashionable Apps.
Tuesday, January 29, 2013 - The role of fashion in making timeless apps.
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#105: An Ergonomic Work Environment.
Friday, January 25, 2013 - Walking through the aspects and characteristics of a comfortable work environment. I’ll be in San Francisco coincident with MacWorld…
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#104: Learning to Love App Review.
Monday, January 21, 2013 - A brief discussion of Apple’s new screenshot policy. Followed by a more broad discussion of why I love App Review and how to take…
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#103: Coding Sins.
Tuesday, January 08, 2013 - Some great advice about writing better Objective-C based on articles by Brent Simmons and Ash Furrow. Seven Deadly Sins of Modern…
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#102: Sharpening Your Skills.
Thursday, January 03, 2013 - How to stay sharp and keep your coding skills getting better and better. nshipster Mattt Thompson on github Objective-C on github…
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#101: The 3 C’s of a balanced life.
Tuesday, January 01, 2013 - Some things I’ve learned (often the hard way) about how to try and balance your work and personal life.
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#100: Showing Up.
Wednesday, December 12, 2012 - A few thoughts on how to stay motivated and stick with something, prompted by reaching episode 100.
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#99: Handling your Finances.
Thursday, December 06, 2012 - Some practical thoughts about handling the financial side of a small business.
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#98: Practical Helpdesk
Tuesday, December 04, 2012 - How I handle the email that comes into my helpdesk system. A few little tricks helps the process take very little time. Google…