Melbourne CocoaHeads April Meeting

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Hi everyone,

This April the Melbourne CocoaHeads will resume monthly meetings. Hooray! The second Thursday of every month, subscribe to the google calendar to keep up to date.

This month we will be hearing about the following:

Ruby Cocoa and Core Image: Marcus Crafter
New feature in xCode 3: Robert Stainsby
py2app: Bulkan-Savun Evcimen
iPhone SDK, and what it means for us in Australia: Gareth Townsend

When?: Thursday April 10th
Where?: RMIT City Campus. Seminar Room 1, Swanston St Library. Building 8, Level 5
Time?: 6pm - 9pm

As always we will be heading over the road to the Bunker afterwards for drinks and socialising.

Looking For Speakers (March/April Meeting)

It’s been too long. It’s time for another meeting of the Melbourne Cocoaheads.

I’m thinking late March or early April.

Before I can pin down a date I need some speakers so that we don’t spend all of our time at the pub.

Marcus Crafter has already put his hand up to talk on Ruby Cocoa and Core Image but we need some more speakers.

So whatever you’re working on, no matter what level of detail or complexity I’d love to hear from you. Post to the google group or contact me personally on quamen at gmail dot com.

Xcode Shortcut Cheat Sheet

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

End of year drinks

We’re having an informal end to the year, meeting up for a drink instead of a formal presentation.

Join us at The Bunker Lounge (407 Swanston St Melbourne, opposite RMIT) from 6 pm Wednesday 5 December. Share your thoughts on Leopard and plans for Melbourne CocoaHeads in 2008.

Robert’s Subversion Talk

Robert Stainsby spoke about subversion use within OS X at our October meeting.

He just let me know that the slides and a video of the talk are now online for everyone to refer to. Follow the link to check out Robert’s talk on Subversion use in OS X.

CocoaLinks 3

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.

Jedda’s Frameworks Talk

Jedda gave a great talk on building custom frameworks at the October meeting.

This .dmg includes both the slides and the sample code.

Get it from Jedda’s Site

Doug’s User Interface Animation Talk

Finally got the slides from last months talk on user interface animation in Tiger from Doug.

Included in the zip files are the slides and the code used in the demo’s.

ui_animation.zip

Meeting 4

Hi everyone,

Just a heads up to let you know that meeting 4 has been finalised. We’ll be hearing from 2 new speakers this month on the following topics.

Subversion Use in OS X: Robert Stainsby
Creating Custom Frameworks: Jedda Wignall

When?: Wednesday October 17th
Where?: RMIT City Campus. Seminar Room 1, Swanston St Library. Building 8, Level 5
Time?: 6pm - 9pm

Like last time we will be heading over the road to the Bunker afterwards for drinks and socialising.

CocoaLinks 2

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!