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Seattle Before the iPhone #7 - John Chaffee

Released Friday, 28th March 2014

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Seattle Before the iPhone #7 - John Chaffee

Friday, 28th March 2014

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This episode was recorded 16 May 2013 live and in person at Omni’s lovely offices overlooking Lake Union in Seattle. (Check out the OmniFocus 2 public beta!)

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John Chaffee is a co-founder of BusyMac which makes the awesome BusyCal. John talks about being a Mac developer in the ’90s, what it was like at Now Software, and how he got tired of mobile and came back to the Mac.

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This episode is also sponsored by Microsoft Azure Mobile Services. Mobile Services is a great way to provide backend services — syncing and other things — for your iPhone, iPad, and Mac apps. If you’ve been to the website already, you’ve seen the tutorials where you input code into a browser window. And that’s an easy way to get started. But don’t be fooled: Mobile Services is deep. You can write in JavaScript in your favorite text editor and deploy via Git. Good stuff.

Things we mention, in order of appearance (roughly):