We’ll be holding our regularly scheduled Office Hours at IndyHall this Thursday, February 23rd, from 6pm till 9pm.
Office Hours is an event that lets hobbyists work next to experienced developers, encourages lots of question asking, pair programming and mentoring. We welcome programmers of all backgrounds and platforms but tend to focus on Mac/iOS.
If you plan to stop by please send a short email to Mike Zornek. Thanks!
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We’ll be holding our regularly scheduled Office Hours at IndyHall this Thursday, January 26th, from 6pm till 9pm.
Office Hours is an event that lets hobbyists work next to experienced developers, encourages lots of question asking, pair programming and mentoring.
We welcome programmers of all backgrounds and platforms but tend to focus on Mac/iOS. If you’d like help with Android let us know in advance and we’ll try to get someone from the Android Alliance to be available.
If you plan to stop by please send a short email to Mike Zornek. Thanks!
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We’ll be holding our regularly scheduled Office Hours at IndyHall this Thursday, December 22th, from 6pm till 9pm.
Office Hours is an event that lets hobbyists work next to experienced developers, encourages lots of question asking, pair programming and mentoring.
We welcome programmers of all backgrounds and platforms but tend to focus on Mac/iOS. If you’d like help with Android let us know in advance and we’ll try to get someone from the Android Alliance to be available.
If you plan to stop by please send a short email to Mike Zornek. Thanks!
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I’m really sorry for the late notice but tonight’s CocoaHeads meeting is canceled.
Sadly, I’m still recuperating from a bad head cold and since I still had some prep work to do for the party plus run the quiz it’s not something I can easily hand off to someone else with late notice.
We’ll have a condensed version of the quiz in the January meeting along with a speaker (TBD).
Thanks for your understanding.
~ Mike
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The next Philly CocoaHeads meeting will be Thursday, December 8th 7-9pm at Indy Hall. Post-meeting drinks commence afterwords; National Mechanics is our usual hangout.
You’ll need to use the intercom to get in (#022). If you are having any trouble feel free to call MikeZ’s cell (267-563-0616) and we’ll be sure to get you in.
We usually all chip in and order some pizza and refreshments, so if you can bring a few bucks for that please do.
Meeting Agenda
Show and Tell
In addition to being an open mic to demo new apps or code, Show and Tell also invites people to bring problems or design issues they are encountering in current projects for feedback.
Quiz Show
We’ll split up into teams for a quiz show answering questions covering code, culture and history of the Apple universe. We’ve got prizes for the winners so bring your game faces.
About CocoaHeads
PhillyCocoa is a Philadelphia area Mac and iPhone programming group, a chapter of the worldwide CocoaHeads. All skill levels are welcome. The only requirement is an interest in Apple-related technologies and moderate tolerance for geeking out.
We hold our CocoaHeads group meetings on the second Thursday of every month at Indy Hall. A calendar feed can be found on the PhillyCocoa website.
We are always looking for feedback and suggestions on what topics to discuss at our meetings. We have a public writeroom (password is “password”) where we try to keep tabs on what people are interested in hearing about. Feel free to append your own ideas, especially if you are interested in speaking.
Group website: http://phillycocoa.org
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We’ll be holding our regularly scheduled Office Hours at IndyHall this Thursday, October 27th, from 6pm till 9pm.
Office Hours is an event that lets hobbyists work next to experienced developers, encourages lots of question asking, pair programming and mentoring.
We welcome programmers of all backgrounds and platforms but tend to focus on Mac/iOS. If you’d like help with Android let us know in advance and we’ll try to get someone from the Android Alliance to be available.
If you plan to stop by please send a short email to Mike Zornek. Thanks!
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We’ll be holding our regularly scheduled Office Hours at IndyHall this Thursday, September 22th, from 6pm till 9pm.
Office Hours is an event that lets hobbyists work next to experienced developers, encourages lots of question asking, pair programming and mentoring.
We welcome programmers of all backgrounds and platforms but tend to focus on Mac/iOS. If you’d like help with Android let us know in advance and we’ll try to get someone from the Android Alliance to be available.
If you plan to stop by please send a short email to Mike Zornek. Thanks!
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We’ll be holding our regularly scheduled Office Hours at IndyHall this Thursday, August 25th, from 6pm till 9pm.
Office Hours is an event that lets hobbyists work next to experienced developers, encourages lots of question asking, pair programming and mentoring.
We welcome programmers of all backgrounds and platforms but tend to focus on Mac/iOS. If you’d like help with Android let us know and we’ll try to get someone from the Android Alliance to be available.
If you plan to stop by please send a short email to Mike Zornek. Thanks!
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We’ll be holding our regularly scheduled Office Hours at IndyHall this Thursday, July 28th, from 6pm till 9pm.
Office Hours is an event that lets hobbyists work next to experienced developers, encourages lots of question asking, pair programming and mentoring.
We welcome programmers of all backgrounds and platforms but can have iPhone and Android mentors around to help upon request.
If you plan to stop by please send a short email to Mike Zornek. Thanks!
UPDATE: We had a great office hours and killed many bugs last night. In particular we made great use of Instruments and NSZombie to find some crashers and taught some basic use of breakpoints and object inspection to find some other issues.
Things to remember:
- Scalars and pointers made inside a methods will default to garbage.
- Don’t try to enumerate a collection and inside that try to delete objects from the collections.
- Try your best to fully understand the UIViewController lifecycle and how it deals with memory warnings. Simulate memory warnings in the simulator to help test.
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Hello Ladies and Gents!
Another Philly Cocoaheads is upon us. Mike & Mike both have some other engagements this month, so I will be doing my best to fill in as MC.
Now that we’ve all had time to drink from the fire hose that is WWDC, we can get in some solid technical content. We have 3 great talks lined up:
(in no particular order)
iOS Story Boarding - Michael James
Core Animation - Joe Walsh
Network Design Patterns - Corey Floyd
TARDIS Info:
Time: Thursday, July 14 7-9PM
Place: Indy Hall
Dial #022 on the intercom to get in.
Meeting Agenda
Intros
News and Group Business
Office Hours - Core Data Boot Camp
Ship It Society Hack-a-thon
Lion Release?
AppViz Giveaway
WWDC Video Recommendations
Show and Tell
Did you build something?
Did you break something?
Just need a place to complain?
Now is your chance to share and get feedback from the rest of the PhillyCocoa.
Tech Talks
With Michael, Joe, and Corey
Food and Fun
As always, we’ll order pizza and drinks during intermission, and afterwards mosey on down the block to National Mechanics for post-meeting drinks.
About CocoaHeads
PhillyCocoa is a Philadelphia area Mac and iPhone programming group, a chapter of the worldwide CocoaHeads. All skill levels are welcome. The only requirement is an interest in Apple-related technologies and moderate tolerance for geeking out.
We hold our CocoaHeads group meetings on the second Thursday of every month at Indy Hall. A calendar feed can be found on the PhillyCocoa website.
We are always looking for feedback and suggestions on what topics to discuss at our meetings. We have a public writeroom (password is “password”) where we try to keep tabs on what people are interested in hearing about. Feel free to append your own ideas, especially if you are interested in speaking.
Group website: http://phillycocoa.org
~ Corey
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