Mobile Orchard Podcast

This interview is with Corey Johnson, creator of iPhone Wax.  iPhone Wax is an open-source project that lets developers build native CocoaTouch based applications using Lua.  Lua’s an expressive scripting language with dynamic language features familiar to Ruby and Python developers.  The interview includes content on iPhone Wax’s genesis, the Lua language, embedding and bridging Lua and the Objective-C runtime, performance, debugging, App Store policy and interpreted code, and what’s next for the project.

The second and final podcasts recorded at the 360iDev conference. Features interviews with Chris Heintz of Triple Point on PR, Mike Clark of the Pragmatic Studios on iPhone/Ruby On Rails integrations and REST, Jessica Kahn of Tappulous on code reuse, Jake Behrens on performance gains from coding interfaces by hand, and Peter Bakhirev on Game Kit and CFNetwork.