{"id":11908,"date":"2015-08-01T11:59:52","date_gmt":"2015-08-01T15:59:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/?p=11908"},"modified":"2015-08-01T12:02:43","modified_gmt":"2015-08-01T16:02:43","slug":"the-appsmiths","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/2015\/08\/01\/the-appsmiths\/","title":{"rendered":"The Appsmiths"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/cornell.academia.edu\/HansenHsu\/Dissertation-Chapters\">Hansen Hsu<\/a> (via <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/wilshipley\/status\/613752388348850176\">Wil Shipley<\/a>):<\/p>\r\n<blockquote cite=\"https:\/\/cornell.academia.edu\/HansenHsu\/Dissertation-Chapters\"><p>This dissertation is an ethnographic study, accomplished through semi-structured interviews and participant observation, of the cultural world of third party Apple software developers who use Apple&rsquo;s Cocoa libraries to create apps. It answers the questions: what motivates Apple developers&rsquo; devotion to Cocoa technology, and why do they believe it is a superior programming environment? What does it mean to be a &ldquo;good&rdquo; Cocoa programmer, technically and morally, in the Cocoa community of practice, and how do people become one?<\/p><\/blockquote>\r\n<p>A free account is required to download the paper, but it looks like it&rsquo;s well worth reading&mdash;or at least skimming, since it&rsquo;s over 500 pages.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Hansen Hsu (via Wil Shipley): This dissertation is an ethnographic study, accomplished through semi-structured interviews and participant observation, of the cultural world of third party Apple software developers who use Apple&rsquo;s Cocoa libraries to create apps. It answers the questions: what motivates Apple developers&rsquo; devotion to Cocoa technology, and why do they believe it is [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"apple_news_api_created_at":"","apple_news_api_id":"","apple_news_api_modified_at":"","apple_news_api_revision":"","apple_news_api_share_url":"","apple_news_coverimage":0,"apple_news_coverimage_caption":"","apple_news_is_hidden":false,"apple_news_is_paid":false,"apple_news_is_preview":false,"apple_news_is_sponsored":false,"apple_news_maturity_rating":"","apple_news_metadata":"\"\"","apple_news_pullquote":"","apple_news_pullquote_position":"","apple_news_slug":"","apple_news_sections":"\"\"","apple_news_suppress_video_url":false,"apple_news_use_image_component":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[38,101,69,295,286,31,30,823,54,901,72],"class_list":["post-11908","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-technology","tag-apple","tag-business","tag-cocoa","tag-history","tag-interview","tag-ios","tag-mac","tag-next","tag-objective-c","tag-swift-programming-language","tag-omnigroup"],"apple_news_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11908","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11908"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11908\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11909,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11908\/revisions\/11909"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11908"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11908"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11908"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}