Bob McCune

CocoaHeads - Thursday 11/13

Bob McCune — Tue, 11 Nov 2008 16:01:40 +0000

Yes, it’s CocoaHeads time again. Robert Altman, from the ITR Group, will be presenting an Introduction to the iPhone SDK at this week’s CocoaHeads meeting. This will be a great opportunity for all developers to have Robert explain the tools and workflow required to successfully build and deploy an iPhone application.

We’ll also be giving out some Mac and Mac Development books, so please join us this Thursday (11/13) at 6:00pm. Stop by the local CocoaHeads site for more information, directions, and links to past presentations.

See you Thursday!

CocoaHeads this Thursday (10/9)

Bob McCune — Tue, 07 Oct 2008 02:33:53 +0000

The next Minnesota CocoaHeads meeting is this Thursday (10/9) from 6:00-8:00pm. We meet at the offices of Synergy Information Services in Bloomington.

Gerd Knops, from bitart, will be discussing Cocoa Bindings. Please join us as Gerd guides us through the ins and outs of working with this interesting and powerful Cocoa technology.

If you’d like some more information or directions, please stop by one of our sites:

http://www.cocoaheadsmn.org/
http://www.cocoaheads.org/us/MinneapolisMN/index.html

CocoaHeads Thursday 9/11

Bob McCune — Wed, 10 Sep 2008 03:37:01 +0000

I’m putting out a quick reminder that September’s CocoaHeads meeting is this Thursday (9/11). This month Troy Gaul will be giving a presentation about the architecture and design of Adobe’s Lightroom. It should be a very interesting topic!

We’ll also be giving out a couple copies of XCode 3 Unleashed, courtesy of the folks at InformIT. Fellow CocoaHead, John Muchow, has started a multipart review of the book over at Mac Developer Tips and has some good things to say so far.

Hope to see you there!

-Bob

CocoaHeads Reminder

Bob McCune — Wed, 13 Aug 2008 18:22:25 +0000

I wanted to send out a quick reminder that the next CocoaHeads meeting is tomorrow night (6/14). The agenda for tomorrow night is pretty loose, but the general topic of discussion will be XCode and debugging tips. Stop by the CocoaHeads site for more information and directions.

I hope to see you there!

-Bob

Cuil Thinks I’m a Mega-Stud

Bob McCune — Wed, 30 Jul 2008 03:27:00 +0000

I wanted to see if Cuil was indexing my site correctly so I did a search for my name. Clearly, this is my new favorite search engine.

In case you missed it…

Bob McCune — Wed, 23 Jul 2008 06:23:44 +0000

Today the Wordpress team released the first version of their native iPhone application! I’m using it right now and am pretty impressed. The setup was a piece of cake and the editing interface is clean and simple. It provides you with the basic functionality you need to write posts, including nicely-integrated image support.

Overall, I think this looks like a great tool for mobile blogging. Kudos to the Wordpress team!

- blogged from my iPhone

Objective-C Presentation Posted

Bob McCune — Mon, 14 Jul 2008 20:57:45 +0000

The presentation and sample code from last week’s Objective-C talk have been posted. Stop by the CocoaHeads site if you’d like to download the materials.

CocoaHeads Recap

Bob McCune — Fri, 11 Jul 2008 07:10:47 +0000

We had another good CocoaHeads meeting tonight. I gave a talk on Objective-C 2.0 and we had a lot of good conversation on the subject. It was nice to have the Cocoa veterans give us some insight into the various details of the language. I hope everyone found the discussion useful.

As we don’t have a specific topic defined for next month, the plan is to have a “How do I do X?” meeting where we can bring in specific questions (and hopefully solutions) and discuss them as a group. It appeared that everyone was onboard with this idea and should make for some interesting discussion. If you have some specific topics you’d like to address, post them on our new forums to give the group a heads up.

I’m sorry for the meeting time mixup and apologize to those who arrived early. Mea culpa. I’ll be sure to triple check the entries on the main CocoaHeads site to make sure it doesn’t happen again.

Have a happy iPhone day!

CocoaHeads Reminder

Bob McCune — Tue, 08 Jul 2008 23:45:44 +0000

I wanted to send out a quick reminder that the next CocoaHeads meeting is this Thursday (7/10) at 6pm where I’ll be leading a discussion on Objective-C. I had a great time at the first meeting and look forward to seeing everyone again this month.

I’m also happy to report the community site is up and running! I’d like to say thanks to Vlad and Mike for all their efforts in getting this going. We now have a blog, calendar, and forums at our disposal so head on over to http://www.cocoaheadsmn.org/ for a big cup of Cocoa-y goodness.

I’ll see you this Thursday!

-Bob

CocoaHeads: We’re Off To a Great Start!

Bob McCune — Mon, 16 Jun 2008 17:48:25 +0000

I would really like to thank all of you who attended the inaugural CocoaHeads meeting last Thursday. I couldn’t have been happier with the turnout and participation from everyone. It was also nice to finally meet many of you with whom I’ve traded emails over the past couple of months.

We had a great mix of people at the first meeting ranging from experienced Cocoa, NeXT, and Mac OS developers to those experienced with other languages/platforms, but just starting out with Cocoa and CocoaTouch, to those just starting their journey into software development. This should make for a very interesting group!

Andy Atkinson started polling at the end of the meeting for what technical topics people would like to see at upcoming meetings. I think the final ones we settled on were:

Intro to iPhone Development
Overview of RubyCocoa
Unit Testing with OCUnit
NSFoundation Framework
Intro to CoreGraphics
Overview of Instruments

Some additional ones I would personally like to see covered (even if I’m the one covering them) are overviews of Core Data and Core Animation.
Let me know if there are any others that I missed and should be tracking.

John Shields wrote up a nice summary of his thoughts on the meeting that you should check out.

I’d like to thank Bill Heyman and Damon Allison for showing us some very cool demos of what they are doing over at CodeMorphic. Good luck guys and keep ‘em coming! If anyone else would be interested in demoing their products or projects, just let me know and I’ll find you a slot.

I’d also like to thank everyone at Synergy Information Services. Their facilities are great and they also have a larger room available should we need it. We all also greatly appreciated the pizza and soda!

Vlad will be posting the Getting Started with Cocoa presentation and sample code to the website. Keep an eye out at Synergy’s CocoaHeads Page over the next few days if you’d like to download that content.

BTW, if you are interested in understanding the history of Cocoa and Mac OS X, I’d recommend checking out David Shaw’s website. He has a wealth of information on NeXT, Rhapsody, and Apple that many of you would find very interesting. Great job David!

As I mentioned the other night I’ll be giving a presentation on Object-C 2.0 at the July meeting. This will be a much more detailed look at ObjC which will allow us to dig into its core syntax and features.

I hope to see you all again at the next CocoaHeads meeting on 7/10 @ 6pm.

-Thanks,
Bob