Seattle Before the iPhone #5 - Paul Goracke
This episode was recorded 16 May 2013 live and in person at Omni’s lovely offices overlooking Lake Union in Seattle.
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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.
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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):- CodeWarrior
- SIOUX-WASTE
- TextEdit 32K limit
- WASTE
- Usenet
- Metrowerks Ron
- John Daub
- Compact Discs
- Adobe
- MacTech on SIOUX
- WorldScript
- Unicode
- UTF-8
- PowerPC
- Apprentice CDs
- DNA sequencers
- California
- Stanford
- Sun workstation
- PC
- Minnesota
- Egghead Software
- NFR copies
- Think C
- Think C Reference
- Learn C on the Macintosh
- Inside Mac
- Scott Knaster book
- Ultimate Mac Programming Guide
- Apple events
- Inside OLE
- 4th Dimension
- Guy Kawasaki
- Apple II
- Atari
- Commodore
- VisiCalc
- BASIC
- Nibble magazine
- Elephant Disks
- Beagle Bros.
- Byte
- TRS-80
- Creative Computing
- 6502
- C pointers
- fseek
- Apple IIe
- Apple IIgs
- Lemonade Stand
- Token rings
- 1994
- The Computer Store
- Powerbook 180
- Filemaker
- SQL
- HyperCard
- Myst
- Broderbund
- Sierra On-Line
- King’s Quest
- PowerPlant
- Flash
- JavaScript
- Java Applet
- Remote Method Invocation
- Java Native Interface
- Windows NT
- Classpaths
- Bioinformatics
- Perl
- use strict
- Berkeley DB
- MySQL
- RedHat Linux
- Emacs
- Quartz Composer
- Grok
- Forth
- Seattle Xcoders
- 2004
- 2005
- NSCoder Night
- CocoaHeads
- Pirate flag
- Advanced Mac OS X Programming book
- Gus Mueller
- Rogue Sheep
- MacBU
- OmniGroup
- dBug
- Lucas Newman
- Mike Lee
- Wil Shipley
- Golden Braeburn
- Joe Heck
- Hal Mueller
- WWDC
- Luau
- SFMacIndie Party
- Jillian’s
- Jacqui Cheng
- Clint Ecker
- Guy English
- C4
- NeXT
- BeOS
- UW Salvage
- Subversion
- Versions
- John Flansburgh
- Northside