Bob McCune

The first CocoaHeads meeting of the year is this Thursday (1/8). This month Dylan Bruzenak, from IdeaSwarm, will be leading a discussion on ways of customizing Xcode to help you work more efficiently. This seems like a great topic to kick off 2009!

I have also posted our new home page and have moved the forums over to Google Groups. I’ll be doing some fine tuning over the month, but hopefully this will provide a better solution and experience for everyone. Stop by the new site and join the group.

http://www.cocoaheadsmn.org/

I’ve had a busy month and have been a little lax in CocoaHeads planning, but, yes, we will have a meeting this Thursday (12/11) at 6:00pm. We don’t have a specific agenda for this month, but drop in for some pizza and Mac/iPhone talk.

Stop by the CocoaHeads site for directions.

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!

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

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

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

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.

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

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.

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!