Seattle Before the iPhone #1 - Luke Adamson

This episode was recorded 15 May 2013 live and in person at The Omni Group’s lovely offices overlooking Lake Union in Seattle. You can download the m4a file or subscribe in iTunes or subscribe to the podcast feed. Luke Adamson is a founder of Toy Rockets. He’s a former instructor at the University of Washington’s iOS and Mac certificate program and a former developer at The Omni Group (where, among other things, he helped create OmniOutliner). This episode is sponsored by Microsoft Azure Mobile Services. Does your app need online services? Syncing? Storage? Mobile Services is the easiest way to get started. Create your own APIs. Write your code using JavaScript (Mobile Services runs Node.js). Store data in a SQL database and/or in blob storage. Develop using your favorite text editor and terminal app on your favorite computer — a Mac. And never ever worry about applying security patches to a server. A trial account is free. Things we mention, in order of appearance (roughly): Gophers Idaho Meth Maze War Boise State U Nextstation UUCP HP Usenet Commodore 64 BASIC Pascal Objective-C C++ Win16 AppKit Foundation NSString University of Idaho The Omni Group Texas A&M OmniWeb OmniPDF WebObjects Lighthouse Design Diagram! Quantrix Wainscoting EOF Standard & Poor’s Mitsubishi Toyota McCaw Cellular Oracle 8 Craig Federighi Bruce Arthur Solaris Sybase G4 Ireland Quake HP-UX Doom John Carmack Java BeOS Adobe PowerPC Power Computing Webscript Lisp Swing Toolkit AWT Ken Case Tim Wood Wil Shipley Greg Titus Andrew Abernathy Tom Bunch Retrospect Steve Nygard Class-dump OmniOutliner Visio Rhapsody OmniGraffle Illustrator Mazda RX-7 FrontBase Denmark Cinema Displays TiBook Everett, Washington Blue hair Sub-prime mortgages Bear Stearns Deutsche Bank Credit Suisse Internap Xserve Ubermind Deloitte Digital Societe General India iOS Jailbroken iPhones Lucas Newman