Identical Cousins 14: Partners in Crime

Recorded 5 April 2013.

You can download the m4a file.

Brent and Michael talk to Nick Bradbury, author of HomeSite, TopStyle, FeedDemon, and Glassboard.

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Some things we mention:

• Nick Bradbury
• FeedDemon
• TopStyle
• HomeSite
• NewsGator
• Google Reader
• Android
• Sepia Labs
• TRS-80
• Commodore 64
• Knoxville, TN
• NCSA Mosaic
• Lynx
• Maelstrom
• Letterpress
• Guitar Hero
• Rock Band
• iDev 360
• Left for Dead
• Allaire
• Gnomedex
• Upstairs, Downstairs
• Downton Abbey
• Uptown Downstairs Abbey Part One - Red Nose Day 2011
• Uptown Downstairs Abbey Part Two - Red Nose Day 2011
• SharePoint
• Fiddler
• Google Reader documentation that Nick wrote
• Nick’s Plan for FeedDemon
• The Long-Term Failure of Web APIs
• HockeyApp
• Google Graveyard
• Delphi
• Eclipse
• Android 4
• “Google is getting better at design faster than Apple is getting better at web services.”
• Game Center
• Metro/Modern UI
• Google Maps for iOS
• Fantastical
• Glassboard
• David Kasprzyk (newly-hired iOS developer at NewsGator; Brent’s replacement; the un-Brent-er; cool cat)
• Queueing Theory Lets Any App Offer A Mailbox-Like Reservation System (Even If It’s Just For Building Buzz)
• Social Sites

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