Saturday, May 3rd, 2008
Saturday, November 3rd at 10:30am, the Macintosh Programming SIG (MPSIG) will be meeting at Cheyney University.
This coming Saturday, at 10:30am, at Cheyney University, the very entertaining Louis Gerberg will speak on designing for and developing on the iPhone. Louis was an Apple developer for many years and he is full of inside information on why things on the Mac are the way they are. He is currently developing for the iPhone.
This is going to be great! Louis is a great speaker & has got a wonderful subject to talk about! And the iPhone taking off the way it has, it offers some extraordinary potential for developers! Even if you are not specifically interested in programming for the iPhone but are generally interested in how to program well, this is definitely a talk to catch!
NOTE: This Keynote presentation was recorded. If you are interested contact Louis via the mailserver
See you next month!
Cheers,
John
Saturday, June 7th, 2008
Saturday, December 1st at 10:30am, the Macintosh Programming SIG (MPSIG) will be meeting at Cheyney University. This Saturday, our own very entertaining & knowledgeable Louis Gerberg will speak on design patterns in Objective C.
Per Louis, his talk is: Cocoa Tips, Tricks, Patterns, and Idioms:
The dynamic runtime Objective C presents allows for designs and patterns that are somewhat different from more conventional object oriented languages. These patterns are used pervasively through the Cocoa framework itself, and understanding them enhances ones ability to write Cocoa applications. This talk will give an overview of the runtime itself, then will take a quick look at some of the common idioms.
This talk will be a great way to get started with Objective C and to deepen your understanding of it!
Louis did a great job at our last meeting, discussing how to write the best possible iPhone application: keeping the app focused on doing one thing well, make best use of the iPhone's architecture, conform to the iPhone culture, & make things as easy as possible for the user.
Louis was an Apple developer for many years and is full of inside information on why things on the Mac are the way they are. He is currently developing for the iPhone.
Saturday, August 2nd, 2008
Tomorrow, Saturday, at 10:30am, at Cheyney University, we'll meet to discuss Macintosh programming in general: what we've been working on, questions we have, insights we would like to share. This is an informal get together because Deivy & I have been too busy to line up a more formal program. And, it is good to just chat from time to time.
See you Saturday!
Cheers,
John
Saturday, September 2nd, 2008
No meeting, enjoy your holiday!'
Cheers,
John
Saturday, October 2nd, 2008
Meeting Cancelled
John
Saturday, December 6th, 2008
This coming Saturday Louis will be talking about C.
CLANG/LLVM, or how I learned to stop worrying and replace GCC.
Over the last decade development on C compilers and IDEs has stagnated. Lately there has been a resurgence thanks to projects like pcc, FIRM, and others. Some of the most active new compiler projects are the LLVM backend, and its companion C frontend CLANG. They offer a wealth of new ideas and capabilities over the tools which have traditionally been used by opensource and Mac OS developers.
If you are currently doing C on the Mac or planning to or just want to understand what goes on "under the hood", this is a must talk!
See you Saturday!
Cheers,
John
Saturday, Febraury 7th, 2009
This coming Saturday, February 7th, at 10:30am, at Cheyney University, our own Chris Heimark will speak on:
"How to take a concept for an iPhone application to reality".
Chris will talk about how to take a program from initial idea to deployed App. He knows whereof he speaks: he has a lot of apps up at the iPhone store: check this out.
Apple is one of the few areas that are up in the current economy! Thinking about becoming part of that? Come Saturday!
And if you have any iPhone development topics you might like Chris to discuss, please post to the list! He is planning a free-form talk; lots of give & take with audience.
And I'd like to thank Louis Gerbarg for his excellent talk on C language development on the Mac at our December meeting!
Cheers,
John