{"id":793,"date":"2014-09-05T12:00:24","date_gmt":"2014-09-05T16:00:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.peteonsoftware.com\/?p=793"},"modified":"2023-09-05T09:42:22","modified_gmt":"2023-09-05T13:42:22","slug":"my-first-dimecast-is-up","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.peteonsoftware.com\/index.php\/2014\/09\/05\/my-first-dimecast-is-up\/","title":{"rendered":"My First Dimecast is Up!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;ve been a fan of Dimecasts (<em>Link Removed<\/em>) for some time.  In fact, four and half years ago I mentioned the site in a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.peteonsoftware.com\/index.php\/2010\/02\/22\/tekpub\/\">post on this very blog<\/a>.  Unfortunately, the site hadn&#8217;t been updated with a new video in almost two and a half years.<\/p>\n<p>I kept checking in with it periodically, but never saw updates.  One day, my curiosity got the better of me and I started looking around the Internet and I found that <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/DaveSchinkel\">Dave Schinkel<\/a> was planning to take the site over from Derik Whittaker.  I reached out to see if I could help and Dave was gracious enough to let me play along.<\/p>\n<p>The site is still going to be <a href=\"http:\/\/code-zest.blogspot.com\/2014\/08\/dimecastsnet-redesign-part-1-getting-to.html\">undergoing a redesign<\/a> (to be casted, of course), but for now, Dave has re-encoded all of the old videos to MP4 from WMV, boosted the volume, and added a modern player.<\/p>\n<p>All of that being said, I am proud to announce the first new Dimecast in 2.5 years, Episode 206 &#8211; Learning Objective-C &#8211; Part 1 (<em>Link Removed<\/em>).<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.peteonsoftware.com\/images\/201409\/FirstDimecastScreen1.png\" alt=\"Author Screen from my Learning Objective-C Part 1 Dimecast\" title=\"Author Screen from my Learning Objective-C Part 1 Dimecast\" \/><br \/>\n<em style=\"font-size:smaller;\">(A Screenshot of the Author Screen)<\/em><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.peteonsoftware.com\/images\/201409\/FirstDimecastScreen2.png\" alt=\"Sample Action Screen from my Learning Objective-C Part 1 Dimecast\" title=\"Sample Action Screen from my Learning Objective-C Part 1 Dimecast\" \/><br \/>\n<em style=\"font-size:smaller;\">(A Screenshot of me in action \ud83d\ude09 )<\/em><\/p>\n<p>The goal is to roll out a lot of new episodes about a lot of different topics soon and get the site back into a vibrant place to help developers learn new skills.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;m very excited for what&#8217;s to come and I hope that you go check out the episode (<em>Link Removed<\/em>).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;ve been a fan of Dimecasts (Link Removed) for some time. In fact, four and half years ago I mentioned the site in a post on this very blog. Unfortunately, the site hadn&#8217;t been updated &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[79,75,74],"tags":[133,129,128],"class_list":["post-793","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-dimecast","category-ios","category-objective-c","tag-dimecast","tag-ios","tag-objective-c"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.peteonsoftware.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/793","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.peteonsoftware.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.peteonsoftware.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.peteonsoftware.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.peteonsoftware.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=793"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.peteonsoftware.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/793\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.peteonsoftware.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=793"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.peteonsoftware.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=793"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.peteonsoftware.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=793"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}