iPhone Development Podcast – Episode 2 – Dr Nic Williams

This episode of Mobile Orchard’s iPhone Development podcast features an interview with Dr Nic Williams (Twitter) from Mocra, an iPhone/Rails consultancy. Dr. Nic talks about his migration manager for updating SQLite iPhone databases, trying to get Ruby onto an iPhone, using Ruby to unit-test Objective-C iPhone code, his company Mocra, and the Mobile Orchard Podcast’s lavish recording studios.

You can listen using the Flash widget above, download the MP3 on its own, or subscribe to our podcast using the instructions at the bottom of this post. For easy scanning of the interview, the following indexes shows what was covered and when:

• First minute: Migrations discussion
• 5:18: Getting Ruby onto an iPhone
• 5:59: Nu – Lisp-based language that sits atop Obj-C and would work on the iPhone
• 7:37: Unit testing Obj-C from Ruby
• 8:12: Webkit UIs
• 12:31: Mocra / “Used my blog for evil”

Did you miss the inaugural episode of the Mobile Orchard iPhone Developer Podcast? We interviewed Hampton Catlin, Rubyist-turned-iPhone mogul and creator of iPedia, a 99-cent Wikipedia companion / browser. It has sold over 50,000 copies at $1 a time, appeared in Time Magazine, and has been a “featured app” in the App Store.

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