1. X = Dr Nic
2. Y = iPhone development
3. Z = Ruby

From the Mobile Orchard news desk:

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.

Dan Grigsby is the interviewer and post-production guy for the interview, and so it is entirely his handy work that it seems like I’m the only one talking for 15 minutes. The original interview took 4 hours and it was mostly him talking. He’s quite a chatterbox. I barely got a word in edgewise. [1]

Dan also created this list of “things we talked about”:

1. 0:00: Migrations for SQLite
2. 5:18: Getting Ruby onto an iPhone
3. 5:59: Nu – Lisp-based language that sits atop Obj-C and would work on the iPhone
4. 7:37: Unit testing Obj-C from Ruby
5. 8:12: Webkit UIs
6. 12:31: Mocra / “Used my blog for evil”

Go to Mobile Orchard (or Mobile Awkward it is accidently called at the end of the interview) to cop a listen.

[1] This paragraph starts well and ends with blatant falsehoods.

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Brazilian Fabio Akita – author of the first Brazilian book on Ruby on Rails also wanted to know, so he asked.

Thanks to my friend Carlos Eduardo for teeing it up.

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