Tomorrow ** MacTechGroup Meeting Wednesday Sept 2 - Snow Leopard & iPhone

[Owen Hartnett]

****Contains updated info from John Shockey about his talk


MacTechGrp Meeting Wednesday Sept 2,  2009 7-9PM Room 315 Bldg E51 MIT  
Sloan School

Speaker - John Shockey

Hour #1:  We'll be talking about Snow Leopard and how it affects your  
Macintosh usage and development.

Hour #2:  "Living with the iPhone SDK" -- John Shockey has been  
working on an iPhone application, and he'll be showing it off -  
including his always valuable insights on development:

"I recently decided to create a small sample iPhone application. My  
goals were to (1) be a real application solving a real problem, (2) be  
something I could put on the App Store, even though it probably won't  
make much money, and (3) be a good application for a MacTechGroup  
tutorial. It's still in progress, but along the way I've run into some  
warts in the iPhone SDK -- or at least ways it didn't match what I  
wanted. So instead of a tutorial, I'll talk about some of the problems  
and oddities I encountered, why I felt the obvious way of handling  
them wasn't ideal, and the unconventional code I ended up with instead  
-- and we'll look at the actual code involved. You could call it a  
"Tips and Tricks" talk -- but I think it's a little more interesting  
than that. If there's time after that, I'll gladly answer questions  
about the more conventional aspects of the application which include  
using all sorts of view controllers, and interfacing with both of the  
address book frameworks."
Got iPhone/Mac Development stuff you want to show or talk about? Bring  
it to the meeting, and mention it during the first half hour or so,  
along with questions and announcements!

We are trying a messaging strategy recommended by other user groups.   
We'll have two meeting emails - one a week before, and one a day  
before.  Hopefully, you won't find the additional message too onerous.

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You can get a map showing building E51 at
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The MacTechGrp always meets the first Wednesday of the month.  
(Sometimes I screw up the date of the notice, but it's always the  
first Wednesday)

You can get more information on the MacTechGrp and directions at http://www.mactechgroup.org 
.  Sometimes even the meeting announcements are up to date.

To contact the unindicted co-conspirator irresponsible for this group,
email owen at clipboardinc.net

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"What's a Maxwell Parachute?"
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