Edge Cases 89: Multipeer Connectivity Is a Terrible Name

Wolf Rentzsch talks to Andrew Pontious about Apple’s new promising but troubled Multipeer Connectivity framework and his new app that takes advantage of it: Rumor Monger.

Links:

• apontious/Create AssetCatalog JSON File.py « GitHub Gist
• edgecasesshow « Twitter
• Ole Moritz tweet: “@apontious Haven’t listened to the entire episode yet, but os.walk returns a generator (roughly equivalent to an NSEnumerator), not a list.”
• Matt Connolly tweet: “Ruby tuples (and file scanning). @apontious @edgecasesshow http://mattconnolly.wordpress.com/2014/04/19/ruby-tuples-and-file-scanning/”
• Tuples and NSError « Michael Tsai
• How an Under-Appreciated iOS 7 Feature Will Change the World « Cult of Mac
• iOS 7 Multipeer Connectivity and Android WiFi Direct « Stack Overflow
• iOS 7 AirDrop – Is it really Wi-Fi Direct? « Absolute Zero
• iPhoneBluetooth « btstack Wiki
• WWDC 2013 Session 708 Nearby Networking with Multipeer Connectivity
• Asynchronous Background Networking On The Macintosh « MacTech
• Rumor Monger « Wiki Wiki Web
• Rumor Monger « Meme Motes
• Bloom filter « Wikipedia
• fpillet/NSLogger « GitHub
• rentzsch/JRTranscriptView « GitHub

Rejected Episode Titles:

• Well, That’s a Mouthful
• Everybody Does It the Same Way for the Same Reasons
• There Are No Ruby Tuples
• ♫ “Everything You Can Do I Can Do Better” ♫
• Mushrooms After a Rainstorm
• Massively Powerful Transceivers in Our Pocket
• I Don’t Know Exactly How All This Stuff Works
• In the Best Edge Cases Tradition
• Not as Good as “Wolf Rentzsch”
• We Tend to Make Fun of the Suits
• You’re Going to Release Code, Aren’t You?
• Viruses Jumping from Person to Person
• Have You Mentioned What It Actually Does Yet?
• “Now, Ten Years Later…”
• The Fog of Time Is Becoming Less Dense
• People Are Terrible, That’s Really the Root Problem
• Harry Couldn’t Kill It
• Fear Will Keep the Systems in Line
• Those Were a Lot of Rowdy People
• My Implementation Is Considerably Dumber
• I Haven’t Moved to France Yet
• Xcode Just Loves to Crash When You Do That
• This Is Me Getting Pissed Off Enough at UITextView
• You Have Advertisers and You Have Browsers
• I Had to Rip My Hair Out
• Unless You Want to Endure a Lot of Pain