Mobile Orchard Podcast

Matt Gallagher’s “Cocoa With Love” blog is one of the finest advanced Cocoa resources.  Matt recently posted a pair of articles demonstrating how to simulate touch events and programatically drive the iPhone UI for user interface testing.  In this interview, he describes how it’s done, talks about implementing Apple’s hidden/private touch APIs, and points out that, under the covers, iPhone apps run in the sim are actually native Mac apps.

Glen Low is the creator of Instaviz.  Instaviz is a graphing and mind-mapping application with a novel, Newton-like shape drawing interface.

In this interview, Glen talks about shape recognition and endpoint/edge connection algorithms using Bayesian classification, graph rendering and layouts using a port of the OSS library Graphviz, and limitations of the mailto-protocol handler.