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Philly Mac Programming Group Presentation History 2011

Saturday, January 1st, 2011

No meeting. Enjoy your holiday!
Cheers,
John



Saturday, Febraury 5th, 2011

1Our own Brian Sulaiman on: "The Mobile Web"
The topic for the presentation will be The Mobile Web. This presentation will touch on the mobile websites market, device landscape across major geographies,mobile web challenges, approaches for developing and testing mobile websites, and mobile web analytics. This is an area that a lot of us are actively working in! Brian's talk will be very interesting in its own right & for the discussions it is going to kick off.
NOTE: We meet at every first Saturday of the month except for January and July at the Bear Rock Cafe in King of Prussia:
Bear Rock Cafe
192 West Dekalb Pike
King of Prussia, PA 19406-2327
(610) 265-6505
Cheers,
John



Saturday, March 5th, 2011

Our own Tim Cochrane will do: Your Data on the Move!-Mobile Web Services
Web Services are used in a variety of online systems in numerous ways. Learn what web services are, why to use them and how to integrate them into your mobileapps. Tim will explain and demonstrate how some of his iOS apps access various different web services such as Twitter, Facebook and CoasterCounter. We'll alsodemo a custom app that uses web services in a fun and unusual way. Or as I like to think of it, how to leverage other people's work to make your site better. :)
NOTE: We meet at every first Saturday of the month except for January and July at the Bear Rock Cafe in King of Prussia:
Bear Rock Cafe
192 West Dekalb Pike
King of Prussia, PA 19406-2327
(610) 265-6505
Cheers,
John



Saturday, April 2nd, 2011

Our own John Ashmead in :A review of his new maps & data web site.
In his words:"This is something of a work in progress, some days more work, some days more progress.
I've been doing in HTML5, CSS, Javascript & jQuery, & PHP & MySQL. The server side went up pretty quickly but I've had to play around quite a bit on the client end, figuring out how to do stuff. Good news, I've gotten a lot of new material for my book on Zen & the Art of Debugging.
I'm going to do a lesson's learned & then a lessons to learn! If you are interested in HTML5, CSS, Javascript, jQuery, PHP & MySQL, or just feel like giving a fellow programmer a hand, come!
NOTE: We are currently meeting at every first Saturday of the month except for January and July at the Bear Rock Cafe in King of Prussia:
Bear Rock Cafe
192 West Dekalb Pike
King of Prussia, PA 19406-2327
(610) 265-6505
Regards,
Deivy



Saturday, May 7th, 2011

No meeting.
Cheers,
John



Saturday, June 4th, 2011

Our own Kotaro Fujita in "Son of Enterprise Development"
Very good presentation by Kotaro Fujita. Energetic talk & conversation & lots of good information about developing in an enterprise context (hint: there is politics involved). He is working at UPenn's Hospital, so there are concerns about patient data & HIPAA regs as well. We are not meeting in July (too close to the 4th) but will in August, on the 6th. Deivy would be next up as speaker, but he can't make August so Mike Zornek will do a report on theWWDC. Deivy will have the talks up on the new & improved website this week! I will be talking at MLMUG on 7/9 on Development on the Mac. Shortly I will know what I am talking about, as I have promised Maria Arguello a brief description by sometime real soon now.
Cheers,
John



Saturday, July 2nd, 2011

No meeting. Enjoy your holiday!
Cheers,
John



Saturday, August 6th, 2011

Our ownMike Zornek will lead a group discussion covering the recent Apple releases along with anecdotes and observations from WWDC. Mac OS X 10.7, Lion, is now available and iOS 5 with iCloud are in beta.
Some references:


I'll have the projector with, for Mike's material & possible web trolling.
NOTE: We are currently meeting at every first Saturday of the month except for January and July at JC's Fireside Bistro in King of Prussia:
JC's Fireside Bistro
192 West Dekalb Pike
King of Prussia, PA 19406-2327
(610) 265-6505
Cheers,
John



Saturday, September 3rd, 2011

No meeting. Enjoy your holiday!
Cheers,
John



Saturday, October 1st, 2011

Our ownDeivy Petrescu on: AppleScript Objective-C (ASOC):
The good the bad and the ugly of creating applications in X-code using ASOC.
We will be creating some apps using ASOC and we will discuss advantages and pitfalls of doing it.
Here are some helpfull and uptdate sites for the ASOC interested:


The first site contains a lot of information and some videos, the second is a good place to hang out and as questions.
If ne is really interested in dwelving into ASOC I'd strongly recommend the book found in the first web site above "ASOC Explored" by Shane Stanley. On a vast region of lack of information (ASOC) this book is a beacon of light.
NOTE: We are currently meeting at every first Saturday of the month except for January and July at JC's Fireside Bistro in King of Prussia:
JC's Fireside Bistro
192 West Dekalb Pike
King of Prussia, PA 19406-2327
(610) 265-6505
Cheers,
John



Saturday, November 5th, 2011

Our ownMike Zornek on Bootstrap & rapid & easy webapp and site development: Bootstrap, from Twitter.
Bootstrap is a toolkit from Twitter designed to kickstart development of webapps and sites. It includes base CSS and HTML (and JavaScript behaviors) for typography, forms, buttons, tables, grids, navigation, and more. It's about making the view side of your web app as pretty and semantically clean as possible. This has very little to do with the web app logic. This is all about the the V of MVC. This has nothing to do with Twitter the service, it just so happens to be open sourced by them.

I'm using Bootstrap in a new web (Rails) app I'm building with some friends. I'll go over why to use it, how to use it and then explain some of the highs and lows we've run into. I'll also be demo said web app, so feedback welcome on that too.
The app we are building is for event (think conferences/festivals) management and attendee application deployment. You can get a rough overview from our (dated) web page:
Some apps we've deployed:

NOTE: We are currently meeting at every first Saturday of the month except for January and July at JC's Fireside Bistro in King of Prussia:
JC's Fireside Bistro
192 West Dekalb Pike
King of Prussia, PA 19406-2327
(610) 265-6505
Cheers,
John



Saturday, December 3rd, 2011

Our own Chris Heimark on Hear about the DuckDuckGo search engine (https://duckduckgo.com).
We heard why it is better than Google. We heard why it gets better every day. We learned about the search tracking that Google enables. We learned about the Google search bubble that "tailors" search responses. We heard about our !bang terms and directed searches. Last but not least, we learned about the responsiveness DuckDuckGo provides when one inquires about its search engine behavior. Now, we can read about it too, just click here for the slides of the presentation.
JC's Fireside Bistro
192 West Dekalb Pike
King of Prussia, PA 19406-2327
(610) 265-6505
Cheers,
John