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Cocoaheads Featured on Australian Macworld

Gareth Townsend — Thu, 14 Aug 2008 21:09:15 +0000

You heard it. We’re famous. Well we were until some silly little company announced movie rentals through iTunes.

The article is still available, just not on the front page.

Brisbane Gets A CocoaHeads Group

Gareth Townsend — Mon, 30 Jun 2008 05:17:43 +0000

Dr Nic Williams, of the Ruby on Rails world has decided it’s time to explore the world of Cocoa.

In fact he’s so keen on the idea he’s started a Brisbane CocoaHeads group so that he doesn’t have to toil away on code all alone. So if you’re in Brisbane and wishing for some Cocoa coding buddies then check it out:

http://groups.google.com/group/brisbane-cocoaheads

Ever wanted to know more about threading?

Gareth Townsend — Wed, 23 Apr 2008 06:43:33 +0000

Colin Wheeler of Cocoa Samurai recently gave a talk at his local cocoaheads meeting on threading in Leopard.

Depending on how long you have been writing code for you have either been burned by threads, or just plain avoided them.

Iif you feel the need to play with ~~fire~~ threads then check out Colin’s great guide to threading on leopard to ensure that you stand half a chance of coming out the other end alive.

Xcode Shortcut Cheat Sheet

Gareth Townsend — Tue, 26 Feb 2008 13:03:21 +0000

Colin Wheeler of Cocoa Samurai just posted a cheat sheet for Xcode short cuts. Check it out http://cocoasamurai.blogspot.com/2008/02/complete-xcode-keyboard-shortcut-list.html

CocoaLinks 3

Gareth Townsend — Sun, 21 Oct 2007 01:36:19 +0000

More cocoa linking goodness for you cocoaheads.

Scott Stevenson has been hard at work, creating THCanvasView which essentially allows you to mimic the finder in your application. It’s worth checking it out. THCanvasView

Collin Wheeler put together a talk on Quartz and the Core Graphics API’s for the Des Moins CocoaHeads group and kindly posted it to his blog. graphical goodness can be found here.

One thing I didn’t note in the October meeting when talking link love was that the long lost late night cocoa podcast is now back and firing. Each episode has an interview with a cocoa developer and discusses a piece of technology in depth. Well worth a listen.

CocoaLinks 2

Gareth Townsend — Thu, 20 Sep 2007 11:33:32 +0000

It’s time for another installation of CocoaLinks. Interesting news from around the web over the past month. It’s been fairly quiet but we’ve found some juicy goodness to keep you busy.

First up, Clean up your app! No seriously, you don’t want to ship an application full of debug code and bloat. It’ll cost you money in bandwidth for distribution and waste your users precious hard drive space!

Another find that I haven’t yet had time to peruse is Standford’s online cocoa course. I’d love to hear a review at the next meeting so get reading!

CocoaLinks 1

Gareth Townsend — Thu, 23 Aug 2007 00:54:14 +0000

Thanks to everyone who came and especially to those who organised the second Melbourne CocoaHeads meeting. As promised I’ve set up the site, and here’s the first instalment of CocoaLinks

Apple have uploaded the 2007 WWDC sessions to iTunes. For those with valid accounts you’ll find the links at Apple’s Developer Website.

Apple have updated their Leopard Technology Series for Developers to now include a section on OS Foundations. Worth checking out if you want to know more about the internals of Leopard.

Tim Burks, of RubyObjC and RubyCocoa fame has just released Nu Script.

Nu is a new programming language that binds the expressive power of Lisp to the pervasiveness and machine-level efficiency of C by building on the power and flexibility of Objective-C.

Something for anyone interested in scripting languages will surely be interested in.

Oh yea, and fake Steve got busted.