Late Night Cocoa was MDN's first ever podcast starting back in January 2007. Each episode consists of an interview by Scotty with an expert on a single subject. Late Night Cocoa ended after 41 episodes in March 2009 when it became a segment of the newly formed MDN Show
Calendar Store
Scotty talks with Justin Williams of Second Gear Software about Leopards Calendar Store Framework
Design Patterns
Scotty interviews Jiva DeVoe about Design Patterns in Cocoa.
NSOperationQueue Problems
Scotty interviews Mike Ash about all the problems he has discovered in NSOperationQueue as well has his new replacement classes.
DTrace
Scotty interviews Colin Wheeler (The Cocoa Samurai) on debugging with DTrace
Porting Large Applications to the Mac platform
Scotty interviews Mike Taylor on porting large applications to the Mac platform
Garbage Collection
Scotty discusses Garbage Collection with Realmac developer Andre Pang
KVC/KVO
In this episode Scotty interviews developer Stefan Frey about KVC/KVO
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Distributed Objects
In this episode (20), Late Night Cocoa examines the significance of Distributed Objects with the help of top-notch developers Peter Brodsky and Blazej Kot. Distributed Objects provide a way to communicate between threads, processes and hosts. Peter and Blazej will cover each of these three cases and familiarize listeners with the APIs, Objective-C language support, as well as the various pitfalls to look out for when using Distributed Objects.
WWDC 2007 Roundtable
In Episode 19 we discuss WWDC with four top developers Daniel Jalkut, Gus Mueller, Wil Shipley and Guy English.
Core Image Filters
In Episode 18 we look at Core Image Filters with Andy Finnell
Hacking Cocoa Part 2
In Episode 17 we continue to look at Hacking Cocoa with Jonathan "Wolf" Rentzsch
Hacking Cocoa Part 1
In Episode 16 we look at Hacking Cocoa with Jonathan "Wolf" Rentzsch
Sync Services
In Episode 15 we get our first repeat guest as Marcus Zarra talks about Sync Services
Search Kit
In episode 14 we examine how to use Search Kit with Steve Harris
Sparkle, Design Pattern & Standards
Traditional software update requires the user to do a lot of work. The problem with that is that users are lazy. In this episode, guest Andy Matuschak discusses the philosophy of auto-update, some ways to use Sparkle, and some hints about what's coming for it in the future. But who needs software update without a good project? Andy will discuss practices of refactoring and systems design in large projects, and some methods for quickly duplicating Apple's new wave of user interface stylings.
The Aperture Plugin API
Fraser talks about the Aperture plugin API
Source Control, Automated Builds & Unit Testing
Gus Mueller talks about automated builds, testing, source control, and other tips
Memory Management
Uli Kusterer explains memory, and talks about pointers, memory ownership, how Cocoa makes memory management easier, and how to detect and debug memory smashers and other hard-to-track-down memory issues.
NSResponder
There are some simple ideas that lead to much of the elegance of Cocoa. NSResponder and the responder chain is one of these. NSResponder deals with handling events, nil-targeted actions, and reporting errors. We will discuss this mechanism with Aaron Hillegass of Big Nerd Ranch .
Xcode Projects
Xcode provides a wealth of features and configurability for powering your coding workflows. In this episode we'll look at basic project management (including cross-project dependencies) , targets, build phases and build configurations with guest Brian Ganninger of Infinite Nexus
Making Scriptable Applications
In Episode 7 we look at Cocoa's scripting support (Applescript), and how developers can leverage it to provide scriptable interfaces to their application's model with guest Daniel Jalkut of Red Sweater Software.
Creating Custom Views
In this episode we discuss the creating custom views with Mark Dalrymple of Borkware
The Cocoa Text System
In this episode we discuss the Cocoa Text System with Juan Pablo Claude of Big Nerd Ranch
What's New in Leopard
In this episode Scotty & Scott Stevenson of Cocoa Dev Central discuss some of the things coming in Leopard for Developers, including Objective-C 2.0, Language Bridges, The WOW Factor , Core Animation, XCode 3.0, Interface Builder, and loads of other things
Web Services
In this episode we take a look at Web Services with R. Tyler Ballance of Bleep Software The show discusses SOAP , REST ,XML-RPC and offers advice on different strategies that can be used to acces web services of different types from within our Cocoa applications ranging from Web Services Core through to using Mono and the Dumarton Bridge. Parameter passing , custom types , syncrhonous vs asynchronous calls are all also discussed.
Core Data
In this episode we talk to Marcus Zarra of Zarra Studios about Core Data
It All Begins
The first episode of Late Night Cocoa is here. In this episode we take a high level look at getting started in Cocoa with an interview with Chris Forsythe the project manager for Adium, project lead forGrowl and the co-founder of Saltatory Software