Thanks to all who came for the Oct meetup.

To sum up, these are the topics discussed:

- Introduction to Xcode 3.2 by Chris Hong
- Introduction to MDeC ICONapp (Integrated Content Development Program) by Tan Tze Meng
- Introduction to Xcode Static Analyzer by Jinny

Here are some resources for the above:

MDeC ICONapps
- ICON program page: http://www.mscmalaysia.my/topic/ICON
- ICONapps Program Page: http://www.mscmalaysia.my/article/ICON/ICONapps

Xcode Static Analyzer
- Developer Documentation (http://developer.apple.com/mac/library/featuredarticles/StaticAnalysis/index.html)
- WWDC09 Video Session 401 – Improving Your Application with the Xcode Static Analyzer (if you have ADC Premium, WWDC Attendee or purchased the video bundle)

For those who don’t have access to the video a short video screencast on Xcode Static Analyzer will be posted soon (hopefully, really hopefully)

There will be a number of interesting developer related events coming this DiscoveryWeek by EpiCentre Pavilion from 7-11 Oct, especially a series of talks by our very own Chris Hong:

October 8, 2009
7:00 PM to 7:30 PM – Resources to help you succeed as an iPhone developer
8:00 PM to 9:00 PM – iPhone Developer Tech Talk – Detecting multi-touch events

October 9, 2009
1:00 PM to 1:30 PM – Resources to help you succeed as an iPhone developer
2:00 PM to 3:00 PM – iPhone Developer Tech Talk – Detecting device location and acceleration movement

October 10, 2009
7:30 PM to 8:00 PM – Resources to help you succeed as an iPhone developer
8:00 PM to 9:00 PM – MYCocoaHeads User Group Meetup – topics to look out for:

MYCocoaHeads User Group Meetup Topic(s):
One up from Clang Static Analyzer: Using the Xcode Static Analyzer to squash bugs in the new Xcode 3.2
User sharing follows

See you guys there, during the tech talks and our user group meetup. Bring your stuff to share

Hi all, sorry for the delay! The photos from July CocoaHeads are up on our flickr account, and just a short note to let you know there are no meetings for August – enjoy the holidays and Selamat Hari Merdeka! Remember to drive safely if you’re going to balik kampung

Short notes continue as usual on our twitter and see you all in September!

Hi guys! Our (Tw|M)eetups are back and this time Adrian will be introducing & sharing about Quartz Composer & Visualizations. Some of you may remember that back in 2008 Jinny shared about creating a mini HIPerWall with Qtz Composer Visualizer. This time, Adrian takes it a step further and shows you more amazing stuff you can create with Quartz.

Geek out session & bug squashing to follow as usual, and of course, you’re free to share what you’re working on too

Date: 18 July 2009
Time: 3-5pm
Venue: Adrian’s Office at Kelana Jaya (see here/below for directions to go and map)

All are welcome, see you there!

Some of you may already know TouchArts (yep, they’re a local developer, yay!) whose previous APIIT app was mentioned before.

They have now come up with a game, which is a take on the memory training/brain training genre of games but with a uniquely different approach and a very pleasant ambience, coupled with beautiful art and a wonderful sountrack. Check out the video at the bottom of their webpage to get a feel of the game for yourself!

senseless can be purchased from the App Store for only USD0.99. Click here for the iTunes link.

Hi folks, it’s the time of the month again and we will have our usual (tw|m)eetup this Saturday, May 23, 2009 at our new usual place (Adrian’s office). Details below:

Date: 23 May 2009
Time: 3-5pm
Venue: Adrian’s Office at Kelana Jaya (see here/below for directions to go and map)

Shafiq will be sharing his experience in creating his first iPhone app.
Jinny will share her initial explorations into LLVM/Clang, report generation and related tools.
Also, if you’re working on something, do bring and share for a “show n tell”!

Hi All,

It’s rather short notice as we were all so caught up with things and forgot to announce! Our usual 3-rd Sat of the month meetup is this Saturday, venue is at @fyire’s place in Kelana Jaya (see here/below for directions to go and map)

Date: 18 April 2009 (Saturday)
Time: 3pm-5pm
Venue: Firegent Office

@fyire will talk about “Using NetBeans for PHP Development: A Skeptic’s Conversion”
@shujinh will preview Coda as comparison to NetBeans
@chrishong has also indicated he has something up his sleeve which he has yet to inform us
And we’ll all have a chit-chat, bug squash and show & tell sessions on what we’ve been up to, as usual.

See you all there!

Map:

Map to Adrian's Office

For those who missed last year’s CS193P iPhone Application Programming course by Stanford (the materials and assignments were available online then), or you followed it but wished you could also see the actual lecture, they are now all up on Stanford on iTunes (SoiT). You can now subscribe to this podcast to download materials and videos as they come up (click here to subscribe – link opens in iTunes).

Of course, this being an undergrad course, it assumes some prerequisite knowledge – at least C programming, and it recommends one has knowledge of UNIX and OO programming too. Don’t have any of these knowledge? Sound us out, maybe we can have a short crash course on C/UNIX/OO for those who are really keen on getting into Objective-C and Cocoa in general during one of our meets!

This is a little bit late in coming, but congratulations to all local developers who received their awards and recognition from Maxis, especially to Terato Tech (who have joined us occasionally) and Murasu Systems S/B.

The others are: Infinido Technology, Manga Blackbox and Pxing Game Studio.

There are many more out there who are not in the list – such as the wabbit studio, Apptivity Lab, Espressoft, TouchArts – you are not any less important or less amazing that these. Keep it up guys, and let’s make our mark one by one!

Also, if you are a local application developer, do not hesitate to let us know who you are and what you’ve been doing. All the best!

TouchArts, by Vanness Tan and Calvin Tam, has published an APIIT schedule helper application to the App Store! Congratulations! The app should be very useful to any APIIT students who own iPhones and iPod touches!

We took a quick look at the TouchArts website and it looks like they have another very interesting app in development – a game codenamed… “prototype”, which is a social game “which pays tribute to the Super Mario legend”. We’re certainly looking forward to it and to see more local developers publishing their apps on the App Store. Congratulations again and all the best, TouchArts!