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Phil Letourneau (@philletourneau) and Olivier Charavel (@charavel) design awesome products and client apps at Black Pixel. In this episode, we discuss the HIG for iOS and Mac and try to find out what this document actually does for developers.

Michele Titolo (@micheletitolo) is a Senior Mobile Engineer at Prolific Interactive. She joins us to talk about web apis, and some things to keep in mind when writing apps for them. We also chat about some of the work Michele does to help encourage women in technology.

Kirk Van Gorkom (@kvangork) is the Lead Hammer at Forge Apps, an iOS and Rails client services shop. In this episode, Kirk gives a talk about his experiences in consulting and what he thinks is the future of indie consulting. This talk was recorded at the iOSDevCamp Colorado in Colorado Springs in May 2013.

Pete Hodgson (@ph1) is an iOS and Ruby Developer at Thoughtworks. He is also creator and maintainer of Frank, an automated UI Testing tool for iOS developers. In this episode, we chat about the principles and practices of agile developers, and testing with frank.

Jean MacDonald (@macgenie) is a Partner at Smile on My Mac and the Founder of The App Camp for Girls, an initiative to help introduce girls to the dirty work of making iOS apps. Thanks to ZCasting3000 for sponsoring this week's episode! For professional app videos done right, check out http://zcasting3000.com

#103: iOSDevCamp 2013

Whitney Young (@wbyoung) is the Co-founder and Chief Technology Officer at FadingRed. With over 8 years of experience developing for Apple platforms, he oversees all application development for the team.

Linda Rising (@RisingLinda) has a Ph.D. from Arizona State University in the field of object-based design metrics and a background that includes university teaching and industry work in telecommunications, avionics, and strategic weapons systems. An internationally known presenter on topics related to patterns, retrospectives, agile development approaches, and the change process, Linda is the author of numerous articles and four books: Design Patterns in Communications Software (SIGS Reference Library), The Pattern Almanac 2000, The Patterns Handbook: Techniques, Strategies, and Applications (SIGS Reference Library), and Fearless Change: Patterns for Introducing New Ideas

Dave Thomas is an adjunct research professor at Carleton University, and the University Of Queensland and is widely published in the software engineering literature. In this episode, we talk a walk down memory lane and look at languages past and present and compare them to Objective C.

Samantha John (@SamJ0hn) is the co-founder of Hopscotch Technologies and co-creator of Daisy the Dinosaur and Hopscotch apps for the iPad that help teach kids about programming. Saul was able to catch up with Samantha at WWDC13 and chat a little about how Daisy the Dinosaur are doing, how they're made, and what's next for these amazing apps. **** Sponsor Hockey App Awesome iOS, Mac and Android beta distribution, crash reporting and analytics! Sign up for your free trial now!

Jim Dovey (@alanQuatermain) is a digital content evangelist, and former iOS Software Architect, at Kobo. In this episode, we take Jim down memory lane and talk about his work on the early days of hacking the AppleTV.

Jon Reid (@qcoding) is a test infected iOS engineer and blogs about testing iOS apps at QualityCoding.org. He also authored and maintains the OCMockito and OCHamcrest testing libraries.

Ash Furrow (@ashfurrow) is a developer at teehan+lax and formerly the lead iOS Engineer at 500px.

Dave Addey (@daveaddey) is the founder of Agant, an iOS Development agency in the UK. Dave started Agant by bootstrapping his popular app, UK TrainTimes, on evenings and weekends. In this episode, we explore Dave's experiences in going from a one man side project to a full blown app agency.

James Dempsey (@jamesdempsey) is a former Apple employee who had a special flare for making certain WWDC sessions special, he would bust out in song on stage for the luck folk who attended his talk. In this episode, we talk to James about his path to nerd song stardom!