NSBrief

NSConference was held from March 17-19 in Leciester, England. Saul attended this international gathering of independent iOS and Mac developers and was able to talk a few of the speakers and attendies about some of the highlights of the show.

Marcus Zarra (@mzarra) is the Legal and Financial director at Martian Craft. He has written a book on Core Data and contributes regularly to Stackoverflow.com answering developer's Core Data questions. In this interview, I caught up with Marcus at NSConference 6 in Leicester, England to discuss his fairly controversial talk on no using 3rd party frameworks and libraries.

Paul Hadad (@tapbot_paul) is the engineering half of Tapbots. In this episode, we talk about how Paul writes apps.

Charles Perry (@dazeend) is the founder of Metakite Software. In this episode, we talk about the perils of running your own business and the importance of adding accessibility in your apps.

Krzysztof Zablocki (@merowing_) works with Lextech Global Services and on new products at Pixle. He is also the author of the popular app, Foldify. In this episode we talk about code and fitness.

Conrad Stoll (@conradstoll) is a developer at Mutual Mobile. In this episode, we talk about some of the new bits in iOS7 and developing with the M7 chip in mind. -- Audio Mastered by Rubber City Wizard, Jonathan Penn

Matt Matteson (@mattmatt) was the first employee at Path and is currently working on Lift. In this episode, we talk a bit about his adventures in the Silicon Valley startup culture. - Sponsored by The Rubber City Wizards Game Development Workshop. Sign up today at http://rubbercitywizards.com/3x3/games. Use the code NSBRIEF on checkout for 20% off your registration!

Guy English (@gte) is the host of the popular Debug podcast. Guy is also a co-founder at Aged and Distilled, makers of Napkin. In this episode, we talk about Cingleton, and our long, long old grey beard development careers, and other fun topics.

Tim Burks (@timburks) is an independent iOS developer at Radtastical, based in Silicon Valley. Tim heads up the Silicon Valley iOS User Group. Tim is also the Director of Renaissance, The iOS App Makers' Conference. Tickets for Renaissance are on sale now!

Peter Hosey (@boredzo) is a Mac programmer. His credits include working on the Adium chat client. In this episode, we talk to Peter about a talk he gave at the MacTech Conference in LA and discuss things make a great user interface.

Uli Kusterer (@uli_witness) is a developer a Elgato. In this episode, we explore the crazy world of Objective C++ in all it's glory! - Audio Mastered by Jonathan Penn of Rubber City Wizards

Simon Wolf (@sgaw) is the man behind Otter Software. We join Simon hopefully toward the end of his epic journey in developing his avTag for iOS app. - Sponsored by HTTPea, a simple iOS HTTP query app for iOS Developers

Tony Arnold (@tonyarnold) is the lead Developer at Cocoabots. In this episode, we talk about life and open source. Sponsored by HTTPea - A simple but powerful tool for developers to send HTTP requests from your iOS device.

Drew McCormack (@drewmccormack) is the founder of the Mental Faculty, an independent developer based in The Netherlands. Recently, Drew introduced a new, open source cloud syncing framework for Core Data called Core Data Ensembles. I recently caught up with Drew to discuss this new open source framework.

Jonathan Rhyne (@jdrhyne) is an attorney with Smith Debnam in Raleigh, North Carolina. Jonathan joins Saul to talk about the legal necessities of running an app business today, in terms developers can understand. You can contact Jonathan for your legal inquiries at jdrhyne@gmail.com - This episode sponsored by the iKids Conference, a Developer Conference for Kids. Tickets are available now at register.ikidsconf.com