Episode 1: Guy English




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Summary: <p>Daniel is joined by Guy English of <a href="http://aged-and-distilled.com">Aged &amp; Distilled</a> for the debut episode of the Bitsplitting podcast.</p> <audio class="wp-audio-shortcode" id="audio-216-10" style="width: 100%;"><a href="http://bitsplitting.org/wp-content/podcasts/Episode1.mp3">http://bitsplitting.org/wp-content/podcasts/Episode1.mp3</a></audio> <p>Guy is a long-time game and application developer for Mac and iOS. His company recently launched <a href="https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/napkin-concise-image-annotation/id581789185?mt=12&amp;partnerId=30&amp;siteID=I9*2vU2JkMU">Napkin</a>, an elegant image annotation app for Mac. Separate from his software development expertise, he is an active promoter of the developer social community. In 2011, he co-founded the <a href="http://cingleton.com/en/">Çingleton Symposium</a>, a Mac-developer conference held annually in Montréal, Québec.</p> <p>Links:</p> <ul> <li> <a href="https://twitter.com/gte">@gte</a> – Guy’s Twitter account.</li> <li> <a href="https://itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/debug/id578812394?mt=2&amp;partnerId=30&amp;siteID=I9*2vU2JkMU">Debug</a> – Guy’s podcast with Rene Ritchie.</li> <li> <a href="http://cingleton.com/en/">Çingleton Symposium</a> – Mac-developer conference held annually in Montréal, Québec.</li> <li> <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charter_of_the_French_Language">Bill 101</a> – Quebec’s legislation defining French as the official language of the province.</li> <li> <a href="http://www.amazon.co.uk/s/ref=nb_sb_noss?url=search-alias%3Dstripbooks&amp;field-keywords=usborne+computer+adventures&amp;rh=n%3A266239%2Ck%3Ausborne+computer+adventures">Usborne Computer Adventures</a> – Variety of kid-oriented programming adventure games.</li> <li> <a href="http://www.amazon.com/dp/0321706285?tag=d73fh-20">Objective-C Programming</a> – Inroductory programming book by Aaron Hillegass.</li> <li> <a href="http://www.ubi.com/enca/">Ubisoft</a> – Giant game-development company. One of Guy’s former employers.</li> <li> <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lovelock,_Nevada">Lovelock, NV</a> – The American desert city that captured young Guy’s imagination.</li> <li> <a href="http://www.rogueamoeba.com/">Rogue Amoeba </a> – Strange name. Great software. Another of Guy’s former employers.</li> <li> <a href="http://aged-and-distilled.com/napkin/">Napkin</a> – Mac-based image annotation app developed by Guy with Chris Parrish.</li> <li> <a href="http://gusmueller.com/">Gus Mueller</a> – Flying Meat founder and early beta-tester of Guy’s app Legion.</li> <li> <a href="http://cabel.name/">Cabel Sasser</a> – Panic co-founder and another early Legion tester.</li> <li> <a href="http://delicious-monster.com/index.html">Delicious Library</a> – Groundbreaking Mac-based inventory app by Wil Shipley.</li> <li> <a href="http://nsnorth.ca/">NSNorth</a> – Mac, iOS and web development conference debuting in Ottawa, Canada.</li> </ul> <p>Sponsored by <a href="http://mapbox.com/">MapBox</a>: Design maps in the cloud, publish in minutes.</p>