Archive for February, 2010
13. Productivity for bootstrappers
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On the iPhone side of things, we discuss customer relationship management (or the lack thereof) on the App Store, and the number of game developers on the iPhone vs. Nintendo DS and Sony PSP.
For you boot-strappers, we talk about strategies and techniques for time management and productivity. Rick and Kevin discuss different ways to balance your day job with your startup, and how to make techniques like GTD and Pomodoro work for you.
Miscellaneous
Customer relationship in the App Store
iPhone has twice as many game developers as Nintendo and Sony
Productivity
- Getting Things Done
- Pomodoro Technique
- Post on the importance of the breaks in Pomodoro
- 37signals post on timeboxing
The music for this podcast, used by permission, is by Pretty Lights (intro) and Avi Ghosh (outro). The transition music is from Nine Inch Nail’s Ghosts I-IV album, a Creative Commons 3 licensed work.
12. Knowing when to quit and Apple’s mobile development ecosystem
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Rick and Kevin start off discussing how they know when to ‘quit’ a project (spurred from this Rizer Games blog post) and allude to several Uproar projects which they started but for various reasons did not complete.
They then discuss how the iPhone development ecosystem is getting progressively more challenging as developers have three devices (iPod, iPhone, & iPad), various common/unique hardware features and three OSes (2.x, 3.x and soon 4.x). Where we once had a fairly homogeneous development environment (as compared to other mobile environments like JavaME and Android), the Apple mobile development is moving closer to traditional development for multiple platforms.
Finally, they end the show with a discussion on WebKit vs native Objective-C development and their experiences with both.
The music for this podcast, used by permission, is by Pretty Lights (intro) and Avi Ghosh (outro). The transition music is from Nine Inch Nail’s Ghosts I-IV album, a Creative Commons 3 licensed work.
11. The iPad!
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Rick and Kevin discuss the iPad. What does it mean for developers; what does it mean for consumers; and is it a huge disappointment or the next big thing?
Links mentioned in this podcast
- Blog post about how the iPad is different from the iPhone
- Lee Brimelow’s blog post in which he claims many top sites won’t work on the iPad
- A response to the above post
- Reeder is Rick’s favorite iPhone news reader
The music for this podcast, used by permission, is by Pretty Lights (intro) and Avi Ghosh (outro). The transition music is from Nine Inch Nail’s Ghosts I-IV album, a Creative Commons 3 licensed work.
