Why?

We’ve shifted to tumblr simply because it is far easier to share stuff on this platform than it is on WordPress. Not to say that WordPress is difficult to use – but we share a fair bit of stuff every now and then, but unfortunately only on twitter as to share on WordPress requires a fair bit of work – I’ll need to create a brand new post for it. Tumblr makes sharing a lot easier and hopefully make this site more informative and interactive.

We’ll be keeping a link to this blog though, as some of our resources are still there. But in the meantime, bookmark the new site and add it to your RSS feeds, because from now onwards, we’ll be tumblaring! (is there such a word)?

Here’s the links to topics discussed yesterday:

Location Services (ADC Reference & Sample Code)
Static Analysis in Xcode (ADC Article)
Clang & LLVM
AnalysisTool

Topic links from Dec meetup (Designing for User Experience)
Apple Human Interface Guidelines
iPhone Human Interface Guidelines
Getting Started with User Experience (ADC Article)

And a little bonus:
25 User Experience Videos That Are Worth Your Time (via Smashing Magazine)

Topic for this month will be:

1. “Location Services 101″ by Adrian Lo
What location services is on the iPhone, implementing location services in your iPhone app and making sense of the numbers.

2. AnalysisTool: A clang “extension” by Chris Hong

There may or may not be another topic, which will be confirmed in due time. Update will be posted soon on this event entry.

Bug squash follows as usual.

The venue and place is as usual:

Date: 30 Jan 2010
Time: 3-5pm
Venue: Adrian’s Office at Kelana Jaya (see here/below for directions to go and map)

Here is a job opportunity for iPhone training/development at 2359 Media Pte Ltd.

iPhone Trainer and Project Manager

RESPONSIBILITIES (Project Manager)

• Design, create and execute a iPhone training plan
• Train & manage a team of iPhone Programmers
• Apply standard industry software design and development practices
• Liase with Singapore office for bring iPhone projects to fruition

TECHNICAL REQUIREMENTS

• iPhone or Mac development
• Published or developed a full application on iPhone
• Object-oriented programming in Objective-C
• UIKit/Cocoa framework experience
• Xcode

OTHER REQUIREMENTS

• Strong communication skill in English
• Confident and is passionate about teaching development to trainees
• Able to take on responsibility and motivate team members
• Willing to relocate/commute to Ipoh
• ***Self Taught in iPhone/Starting out on a new career are extremely encouraged to apply***

View the job ad in its entirety; and more about 2359Media, here: 2359Media Job Ad

Disclaimer: MYCocoaHeads is not affiliated with the companies posting job ads, and is posting this as a courtesy and is not in any way an endorsement. All queries should be directed to the contact of the offering company and not MYCocoaHeads.

IMPORTANT: Due to unforeseen circumstances tomorrow’s meetup is postponed to the following week. Many apologies! See you all Sat Dec 12 instead.

Hi guys, it’s the end of the year and the last meetup for 2009!

The venue and place is as usual:

Date: 5 Dec 2009 12 Dec 2009
Time: 3-5pm
Venue: Adrian’s Office at Kelana Jaya (see here/below for directions to go and map)

Topic will be on:

Designing for user experience: UI best practices and using (or not using) custom controls.
The session comes in two parts:

• Learn about designing for user experience, user interface best practices in Cocoa, some tools for prototyping UI
• Custom controls: when to use (or not use) it, and how to implement custom controls/skinned UI.

All are welcome, see you there!

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)

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

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

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!

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