Update: Moved to Thursdays, to avoid conflict with the main Android Alliance Meetings.

We are bringing some stability to our Office Hours. Moving forward we will be having them monthly, the fourth Thursday of the month, 6pm-9pm at IndyHall.

The next one will be Thursday, June 23rd.

In addition to Mac/iOS developers we also will be welcoming Android developers from the new Android Alliance group. They will be scheduling a similar meetup (details to come) which will welcome iOS developers. It is our hope by having bi-weekly office hours everyone will have an opportunity to get some help and have some solid coding time with local friends.

Since this is still new and we don’t want to waste a mentor’s time we do ask that you RSVP.

http://anyvite.com/bsq7thdxsh

If you’d prefer not to create an anyvite account, please just shoot us a private email. Thanks!

Office Hours is a new event from Philly Cocoa. It’s goal is to create an environment that has hobbyists work next to experienced CocoaHeads, encouraging lots of question asking, pair programming and mentoring.

We’ve had a few Wednesday night sessions with mixed success and will be having our first Saturday session, April 16th at Indy Hall. The event starts at 10am.

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 had a total 5 people stop down for Office Hours last Wednesday and the general consensus is we’ll be doing it again next Wednesday, March 23rd.

For the first half we did a little question and answer session, covering the various ways to implement table view cells as well as how to assign multiple actions per cell.

In the second half we brainstormed a build server setup that would glue GitHub+Xcode+ADC+TestFlight.

Looks like we’ll be doing it as a Rails app as it interacts with the command line very nicely, has good mechanics to generate RSS/emails, as well as general interesting in doing something in Rails 3.

For now it’s a back burner project but I’m sure we’ll have more to share in the future.

In April we’ll be having a Saturday Office Hours session. Date to be determined.

This upcoming Wednesday night, March 16th, we’ll be holding our first ever CocoaHead’s Office Hours event. Members are encouraged to come down to IndyHall after work to work on projects, ask questions and advice from other members and in general get stuff done. This month we’ll also dedicate some time to brainstorming a build server setup we’d like to get going to help us integrate GitHub and TestFlight.

Wednesday nights are IndyHall night owl nights so people can stay fairly late if they like. There will people manning the buzzer (#022) but 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.

PhillyCocoa was brainstorming something to do during Philly Tech Week. This is what we came up with:

The Made in Philly Software Showcase will put our locally made software on display during Philly Tech Week, a week-long celebration of technology and innovation in Philadelphia.

The current plan is to hold it within the IndyHall beer pong tournament on Thursday night, April 28th however depending on demand we may fork this to be it’s own event at another space.

We expect to have a collection of tables in a wing of IndyHall, each with mobile devices and laptops loaded with Philly Made Software. Behind the tables, people ready to answer questions and give demos. As people leave they can take a 2 sided flyer listing the software and games presented.

Please sign up ASAP as we are trying to get a good head count. Soft deadline in March 16th.

If you are interested in presenting please fill out the below form and feel free to send me any questions.

The signup form is at:

https://indyhall.wufoo.com/forms/made-in-philly-software-showcase-presenter-signup/

Please pass this along to anyone who might be interested. Thanks.

~ Mike Zornek mike@clickablebliss.com