The Philly Mac Programming Group was originally started by MLMUGers that had interest in programming and programming languages for the Mac, as a SIG. The Mac Programming SIG
We have outgrown the status of SIG and became a full fledged programming group. Nevertheless we are still also The MPSIG for MLMUG. We draw our members from the greater Philadelphia Area, and they do not necessarily belong to MLMUG.
Currently there are no membership charges and all are encouraged to join.
Mac is our common interest, however, we are flexible and discuss languages that have broader range than just the Mac. We meet on the first Saturday of every month at a location to be made definite soon. For the current location please contact any of the emails below. The goal of the group is improve each other's skill through discussions and presentations of projects developed by group members.
The level of the programming skills of the members is varied, and we welcome anybody who is willing to learn any programming language... On a Mac of course!
Our next talk is August 7th, 2010: Roundtable on Reuse: bring in your reuse successes and horror stories; and we will go round and round until it is time to table the discussion.
We will have no meeting in July because our meeting date is too close to the 4th. We will meet in August on the 1st Saturday, August 7th, for a roundtable on Code Reuse.
Objective C by our own Chris Heimark. Given June 5th, 2010. Chris has very generously posted his slides from the talk.. Thanks Chris!
We meet the first Saturday of each month, from 10:30 am to 12:30 or 1:00pm. We usually skip the January and July meetings, to avoid giving the New Year and Fourth of July Holidays unfair competition, so that works out to ten meetings a year. There is generally a talk or at least a topic. Careless or slow-moving newbies have frequently found themselves dragooned to do one of these. Sometimes an Old Salt will talk. And we have invited speakers to speak.
The meetings are informal: save your white tie and tails for another time. Any topic relating to Macintosh programming is germane. The digression stack has sometimes been pushed far far down, but always pops back.
NOTE: we are using a new venue, the Bear Rock Cafe in King of Prussia:
Bear Rock Cafe 192 West Dekalb Pike King of Prussia, PA 19406-2327 (610) 265-6505
The Bear Rock Cafe in King of Prussia is more centrally located than Cheyney was. They have wireless & a private room, which we reserve (courtesy of Joe the G.M.) from 10:30am to 1pm. There is no fee for the room, but Joe asked that we buy some coffee and/or food. They have a good selection; this is no problem. It is a nice space, about our size.
If you have a projector we can borrow please let us know. Deivy's hand-held is too weak to use at the Bear Rock. For Chris's talk we downloaded his talk to our laptops (everyone had brought one!) so no problem. Still this is slightly chaotic, not to mention undignified.