Waiting For Review

A fortnightly show between two iOS indie developers, David Gary Wood and Daniel Jilg

About the show

The show is a fortnightly catch up between David Gary Wood, and Daniel Jilg!

David is the longtime host of the show, an iOS development coach based in Wellington, New Zealand. His side project applications include GoVJ, and he is currently working on several small projects.

Daniel is an establish independent developer based in the south of Germany. He is the founder of: Telemetry Deck, "Lightweight Analytics That's Not Evil", an analytics service for apps that provides speedy and accurate analytics whilst keeping user's data private and anonymised.

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Episodes

  • Episode 84: Episode 84: Shiney New Macs (maybe…)

    August 24th, 2018  |  30 mins 48 secs

    Dave Nott has a clear out and starts thinking of selling everything to get a new MacBook Pro. Rumors are breaking that a new Mac Mini might be on the horizon, along with a replacement for the 13" MacBook Air.

  • Episode 82: Episode 82: So Many Zeros

    August 11th, 2018  |  24 mins 46 secs

    We take a look at the quaterly earnings from Apple and try to make sense of what it means for us as one man indie dev shops, and where we think things might be headed in the longer term.

  • Episode 81: Episode 81: Commandline vs. GUI

    August 3rd, 2018  |  22 mins 45 secs

    Commandline vs. GUI

  • Episode 80: Episode 80: The end of the line?

    July 25th, 2018  |  44 mins 10 secs

    Apple updated the Macbook Pro, but do the current machines represent the end of the line?

  • Episode 79: Episode 79: Re-evaluating Workflows

    July 20th, 2018  |  22 mins 28 secs

    After shutting up shop on Root-Digital, Dave Nott is re-evaluating his workflow and arrangements when working on two devices. Can iCloud provide the answer?

  • Episode 78: Episode 78: Apple TV Relevance

    July 13th, 2018  |  34 mins

    This week, we take a look at the Apple TV and ask if it's still relevant in the current landscape of competing products, what unqiue selling points it has, and what new unique selling points it could have.

  • Episode 77: Episode 77: A Tough Call

    July 6th, 2018  |  25 mins 21 secs

    This week we have a somewhat heartfelt episode as Dave Nott shuts up the indie shop with his company and apps at Root Digital. Dave gets into what has driven this decision, and what is coming next.

  • Episode 76: Episode 76: Languages and free trials

    June 29th, 2018  |  32 mins 37 secs

    We discuss Swift vs. Objective C and the wider community debate between the two. Later we get stuck into free trials and their current state, post WWDC.

  • Episode 75: Episode 75: Mac Hardware

    June 22nd, 2018  |  27 mins 38 secs

    This week, we're a bit overloaded with WWDC so we take a break and talk about Mac hardware, timely, as Dave Nott seems to have fallen down the hackintosh rabbit hole!

  • Episode 74: Episode 74: Performance, Marzipan & Siri

    June 15th, 2018  |  30 mins 52 secs

    Continuing on from last week's WWDC special, we take a deeper dive into three big parts of the WWDC keynote - performance, Marzipan and Siri Shortcuts.

  • Episode 73: Episode 73: WWDC Reaction

    June 5th, 2018  |  31 mins 58 secs

    Recorded just minutes after the keynote finished, we jump in to discuss our first thoughts and reactons to the WWDC keynote.

  • Episode 72: Episode 72: ‘Twas the week before WWDC

    June 1st, 2018  |  38 mins 28 secs

    WWDC is coming next week. We get into what we like about Xcode and the platform today, and what we'd love to see unfold at next week's event in San Jose!

  • Episode 71: Episode 71: Google IO… Is the grass greener?

    May 25th, 2018  |  22 mins 45 secs

    This week we steer slightly out of the Apple arena, and take a look at Google IO through the lens of iOS/Apple developers and diehards. There's a lot to like in Google's offerings, but is the grass always greener?

  • Episode 70: Episode 70: How We Learn

    May 18th, 2018  |  30 mins 16 secs

    After a quick detour into VR and AR, we take a look at how we both learn, what our methods are, and we each came to find our own approaches to developing and maintaining our knowledge. 

  • Episode 69: Episode 69: Marzi-what?

    May 11th, 2018  |  25 mins 21 secs

    It seems there's some doubt as to whether Marzipan will be here this WWDC - we dive into this, along with murmers of a new delcarative UI framework.

  • Episode 68: Episode 68: Architecting a New App

    May 4th, 2018  |  35 mins 43 secs

    Dave Nott is planning his new app, and it’s time to think about functionality, data models, and set up. We discuss some of the technical challenges ahead, and some of the questions that a developer should consider when starting a green field iOS project