Seattle Before the iPhone #2 - John Nack

This episode was recorded 22 May 2013 live and in person at Adobe’s offices in Fremont in Seattle. You can download the m4a file or subscribe in iTunes. (Or subscribe to the podcast feed.) John Nack is Principal Product Manager, Adobe Digital Video. He has a blog (definitely worth reading, especially if you use Photoshop) and is @jnack on Twitter. This episode is sponsored by Microsoft Azure Mobile Services. One of the cooler features recently added is the ability to create custom APIs. Originally you were limited to standard operations on your database tables — but now you can design any API you want. This allows you to create a full REST/JSON API that’s tailored to your app, that works as efficiently as possible. (And it’s all in JavaScript. Mobile Services runs Node.js. Write your apps in your favorite text editor on your Mac.) Things we mention, in order of appearance (pretty much): Adobe LiveMotion Photoshop John’s Blog Kurt Vonnegut Granfalloons despair.com Cocoa 64-bit Carbon 64-bit Unfrozen Cave Man Olive Garden South Bend, Indiana Tiramisu St. Sebastian Breadsticks Monkeys 2005 Movable Type DeBabelizer GifBuilder Anarchie 1984 Mac 2001 Algonquin Hotel Apple II PCjr ASCII Art Clip Art Googly Eyes Bill Atkinson MacPaint Rorschach Test Apple II GS Great Books Quadra 840AV Quadra Ad Director SuperCard Søren Kierkegaard Immanuel Kant Notre Dame Football Windows NT HTML New York City 1998 Flash Macromedia Illustrator Navy ROTC San Francisco GoLive NetNewsWire After Effects Thomas Knoll Camera Raw Photoshop Touch Germany Philistinism Perfectionism Volkswagen Carbon-dating Web Standards SVG CSS Gus Mueller Acorn Neven Mrgan Khoi Vinh Croatia Portland JDI Healing Brush Buck Rogers Creative Cloud Facebook Smugmug WWDC Jetta Ketchup Death-march Comic Book Guy John Gruber “If you see a stylus, they blew it.” Microsoft Surface Metro UI Rahm Emmanuel: “You never want a serious crisis to go to waste.” The Mythical Man-Month Content-Aware Fill Shawshank InDesign Adobe Magazine Nike PageMaker Postscript SLR Lightroom Black & Decker Dr. Evil Loren Brichter Instagram Kickstarter NGO Tumblr Acquisition Troy Gaul Blurb The Onion: Report: 98 Percent Of U.S. Commuters Favor Public Transportation For Others Data T-1000 Syria MacApp Resource Manager John Knoll Industrial Light & Magic QuickTime OpenDoc Corba OLE SnapSeed Mac System 6 Apple events AppleScript Audio Bus 1992 “The only time you should start worrying about a soldier is when they stop bitchin’” Alan Kay: “The Mac is the first computer good enough to be criticized.” TapBots Tweetbot 2 Android Kai’s Power Tools Kai Krause Fremont RUN DMC Porsche Boxster Flavawagon Google Glass Robert Scoble