Mike and Chris go meta & discuss their thoughts about the state of Coder Radio, some ideas to mix it up & request your input.

Then we dig into a revealing support chat between an Android developer & the manager for Google Play Developer Support that finally gives us some real insight into the public address debacle.

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Feedback / Follow Up:

• My conversation with Google

• You want feedback? YOU’VE GOT FEEDBACK!

• I Need Some Answers…

• Swift Set Free

• Objective-C at first glance seems like the most weird and awful language I’ve ever used

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More lawsuits over “no poach” deals get filed against Oracle, Microsoft

Mono for Unreal Engine – Miguel de Icaza

Earlier this year, both Epic Games and CryTech made their Unreal Engine
and CryEngine available under an affordable subscription model. These are
both very sophisticated game engines that power some high end and popular games.

We had previously helped Unity bring Mono as the scripting language used in their engine and we now had a chance to do this over again.

Today I am happy to introduce Mono for Unreal Engine.

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Mike and Chris discuss what to do when a client or employer requests you take a personality test. The reasons Microsoft is calling the next version of Windows 10, the recent cases of community going sour & the lessons learned for developers.

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Feedback / Follow Up:

• Google will be posting those addresses to the Play Store

• Weird requests from potential clients.

• What is the proper way to structure a business case document for a software project?

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The Reason Why Windows 9 Was Skipped : CoderRadio

• New experimental console features in Windows “Threshold”

Yahoo discontinuing Yahoo

Lennart Poettering talks about dysfunctional communities in open source

I don’t usually talk about this too much, and hence I figure that people are really not aware of this, but yes, the Open Source community is full of assholes, and I probably more than most others am one of their most favourite targets. I get hate mail for hacking on Open Source. People have started multiple “petitions” on petition web sites, asking me to stop working (google for it). Recently, people started collecting Bitcoins to hire a hitman for me (this really happened!). Just the other day, some idiot posted a “song” on youtube, a creepy work, filled with expletives about me and suggestions of violence. People post websites about boycotting my projects, containing pretty personal attacks. On IRC, people /msg me sometimes, with nasty messages, and references to artwork in 4chan style. And there’s more. A lot more.

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Google is requiring developers to submit their physical address, and the Apple community has outed the manager behind the botched iOS 8.0.1 update. Are we seeing a dangerous threat or just a frantic response?

Plus some great questions, when to lawyer up & much more!

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• On the Viability of Crowd Funding

• Wrist pain

• PHP at a client

• Google wants to post my home address

• Law and Coding

Dev Hoopla:

Person responsible for iOS 8.0.1 debacle also linked to iOS 6 Maps

A quality assurance manager responsible for this week’s botched iOS 8.0.1 release was also in charge of QA for iOS 6 Maps, sources tell Bloomberg. The man is identified as Josh Williams, who is said to have been removed from the Maps team after the app gave people bad directions and/or mislabeled important scenery. He has however been with Apple since 2000, and has been handling quality issues for iOS since the early days of the iPhone.

It’s reported that Williams has a team of over 100 people around the world, and that the company relies more on human discovery of bugs than automated testing. Partly because of these factors, it’s indicated that no single person can be held responsible for major software trouble. The company in fact has a committee called the Bug Review Board overseen by Kim Vorrath, VP of product management for iOS and OS X. She in turn reports to Craig Federighi, the senior VP for software engineering. To help with testing, the company relies heavily on feedback from third-party developers.

It’s at BRB meetings that Vorrath, Williams, and other people determine which bugs need to be solved immediately and which can be dealt with later. Bugs are labeled P1, P2, or P3; P1 can halt production of a device, while P2 or P3 items can be rolled into development of later updates even before the initial firmware is out.

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