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
To activate the FeedDemon easter egg, type “FeedDemon easter egg” in the address bar.
09 Apr 2013