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I'd like to make it to NSCoder Night tonight, but I just have too much else to do today — again.

I won't be seeing anyone at NSCoder Night next week, either, as I'll be in San Francisco for the Apple Worldwide Developers Conference! If you're attending, be sure to find me and say hi!

I'd like to make it to NSCoder Night tonight, but I just have too much else to do today. Hopefully I'll see everyone there next week!

The next CocoaHeads Silicon Valley meeting will be on Thursday, May 15, 2008 — that's tonight! — at 7:30 in the Garage 1 meeting room at Infinite Loop 4 on Apple's main campus. That's inside and upstairs at Apple's Infinite Loop campus in Cupertino. See the web site for directions.

This month's main presentation is on the Best of Both Worlds — an introduction to Cocoa development by Scott Stevenson.

This talk is a combination of an introduction to Cocoa, as well as a series of advanced tips and tricks that even relatively experienced Mac programmers may not know about.

The idea here is that we want to give all of the people who are new to Mac and iPhone development a chance to get started, but we also want to do something special for our advanced programmers. So rather than choosing one, we're just going to go ahead and do both.

Joel Norvell will also be presenting on how to edit PDF forms using Cocoa — he's done a lot of work with PDFKit and Cocoa, and I'm looking forward to learning from him.

Thanks a ton to Scott Stevenson, Steve Zyszkiewicz, Michael Jurewitz and Joar Wingfors for organizing!

In general, at a CocoaHeads meeting we do some introductions, have a presentation including Q&A time with the presenter, and then have an open Q&A and demo-your-cool-app period. After the meeting there's more independent mingling and discussion until it's time to go at 9:30. Often a subset of the meeting moves to BJ's Brewhouse in Cupertino, which is right in front of the Apple Infinite Loop campus on De Anza Boulevard.

I'd like to make it to NSCoder Night tonight, but I won't be able to as I'll be looking at a new place. Wish me luck, and have fun everybody!

The next CocoaHeads Silicon Valley meeting will be on Thursday, April 17, 2008 — that's tonight! — at 7:30 in the De Anza 3 auditorium at Apple. That's just inside the south side of De Anza 3, right across Mariani Avenue from Apple's Infinite Loop campus in Cupertino. See the web site for directions.

This month's presentation is all about designing and implementing your human interface. User experience and human interface design are critical for Mac OS X software to get right. To that end, there's even going to be a UI makeover as Scott describes in his post on the meeting!

Thanks a ton to Scott Stevenson, Steve Zyszkiewicz, Michael Jurewitz and Joar Wingfors for organizing!

In general, at a CocoaHeads meeting we do some introductions, have a presentation including Q&A time with the presenter, and then have an open Q&A and demo-your-cool-app period. After the meeting there's more independent mingling and discussion until it's time to go at 9:30. Often a subset of the meeting moves to BJ's Brewhouse in Cupertino, which is right in front of the Apple Infinite Loop campus on De Anza Boulevard.

The next CocoaHeads Silicon Valley meeting will be on Thursday, February 7, 2008 — that's tonight! — at 7:30 in the De Anza 3 auditorium at Apple. That's just inside the south side of De Anza 3, right across Mariani Avenue from Apple's Infinite Loop campus in Cupertino. See the web site for directions.

This month's presentation is by Scott Stevenson about Core Animation, one of the great new technologies available to Cocoa developers in Mac OS X 10.5 Leopard.

Thanks a ton to Scott Stevenson and Steve Zyszkiewicz for doing the organizing!

In general, at a CocoaHeads meeting we do some introductions, have a presentation including Q&A time with the presenter, and then have an open Q&A and demo-your-cool-app period. After the meeting there's more independent mingling and discussion until it's time to go at 9:30. Often a subset of the meeting moves to BJ's Brewhouse in Cupertino, which is right in front of the Apple Infinite Loop campus on De Anza Boulevard.

The next CocoaHeads Silicon Valley meeting will be on Thursday, January 10, 2008 — that's tonight! — at 7:30 in the Garage 1 conference room at Apple. That's just upstairs from the Town Hall auditorium in Infinite Loop 4, right around the loop at Apple's campus in Cupertino. See the web site for directions.

This month's presentation is by Ted Bonkenburg of Google, who is going to be talking about the MacFUSE project for creating user-space filesystems for Mac OS X!

Thanks a ton to Scott Stevenson and Steve Zyszkiewicz for doing the organizing!

In general, at a CocoaHeads meeting we do some introductions, have a presentation including Q&A time with the presenter, and then have an open Q&A and demo-your-cool-app period. After the meeting there's more independent mingling and discussion — especially at BJ's Brewhouse, which is right along De Anza Blvd. in front of Apple's Infinite Loop 1 headquarters building.

This is just a gentle reminder that NSCoder Night is tonight, 7PM to 9PM!

NSCoder Night Silicon Valley is at Orchard Valley Coffee in Campbell, CA.

NSCoder Night Washington DC is at Panera Bread in Tyson's Corner.

And finally, cocoaCodingNight in St. Louis, Missouri is tonight at the Kaldi's Coffee in Kirkwood, MO from 4:30PM through 10PM. It's tonight rather than Thursday due to the Thanksgiving holiday.

If you're interested in hanging out, but can't make it in person, there's always IRC. Get the latest build of Colloquy and join channel #nscodernight on FreeNode.

This is just a gentle reminder that NSCoder Night is tonight, 7PM to 9PM!

NSCoder Night Silicon Valley is at Orchard Valley Coffee in Campbell, CA.

NSCoder Night Washington DC is at Panera Bread in Tyson's Corner.

If you're interested in hanging out, but can't make it in person, there's always IRC. Get the latest build of Colloquy and join channel #nscodernight on FreeNode.

The next CocoaHeads Silicon Valley meeting will be on Thursday, November 8, 2007 — that's tonight! — at 7:30 in the Town Hall auditorium at Apple. That's just inside Infinite Loop 4, right around the loop at Apple's campus in Cupertino. See the web site for directions.

This month's presentation is by Deric Horn, Application Frameworks Evangelist at Apple. He's going to take us on a tour through what's new in Cocoa in Leopard!

Thanks a ton to Scott Stevenson and Steve Zyszkiewicz for doing the organizing!

In general, at a CocoaHeads meeting we do some introductions, have a presentation including Q&A time with the presenter, and then have an open Q&A and demo-your-cool-app period. After the meeting there's more independent mingling and discussion.

When we haven't had a presentation or two lined up, we've also had some great "unmeetings" (in the spirit of "unconferences") where we came up with an agenda for the core of the meeting on the fly by writing down topics and questions on our room's whiteboard and talking about each one of them for a few minutes. It worked really well.

Update: Every CocoaHeads gets bigger. Tonight's meeting has 59 people so far, which is nearly a 20% increase over last month's meeting!

This is just a gentle reminder that NSCoder Night is tonight, 7PM to 9PM!

NSCoder Night Silicon Valley is at Orchard Valley Coffee in Campbell, CA.

NSCoder Night Washington DC is at Panera Bread in Tyson's Corner.

If you're interested in hanging out, but can't make it in person, there's always IRC. Get the latest build of Colloquy and join channel #nscodernight on FreeNode.

This is just a gentle reminder that NSCoder Night starts tonight, 7PM to 9PM!

NSCoder Night Silicon Valley is at Orchard Valley Coffee in Campbell, CA.

NSCoder Night Washington DC is at Panera Bread in Tyson's Corner.

And, thanks to the magic of time zones, NSCoder Night Washington DC will actually be the first NSCoder Night get-together!

If you're interested in hanging out, but can't make it in person, there's always IRC. Get the latest build of Colloquy and join channel #nscodernight on FreeNode. (And also consider joining some of the other channels there, such as #macdev and #macsb, where you can meet other fellow Mac developers!)

I've been toying with this idea for a while now, and now that Leopard is coming out, it's finally time to make it happen! I call it NSCoder Night! (Major thanks to Scott Stevenson for coming up with the name!) Here's the inaugural announcement:

NSCoder Night Silicon Valley will be having its inaugural get-together between 7:00 and 9:00 PM on October 30, 2007 — next Tuesday night — at Orchard Valley Coffee in Campbell, CA. From then on, we'll be getting together there every Tuesday!

What's the point? To get together with other folks who are also writing Cocoa code for Mac OS X, of course! There's no formal structure, which is why I described it as a "get-together" rather than a meeting. There's no need to RSVP, either; just show up if you like, or don't if you can't make it. Just bring your brain, laptop, and enthusiasm, pick up one of the tasty drinks available at Orchard Valley Coffee, and have a great time!

Why did I pick Orchard Valley Coffee for the inaugural Silicon Valley get-together? I first went there one afternoon during a little vacation I took after WWDC, and I found it a nice, large, relaxing place. It has wireless connectivity, reasonable hours, plenty of room, and great drinks, and it's also quite accessible since it's right in the heart of downtown Campbell.

So come on down, say hi, and see just how much fun it is to hang out and hack for a couple hours!

Want to hold your own NSCoder Night? Just let me know — here, on the NSCoder Night web site, or via email — and I'll post the announcement. Hopefully we'll have get-togethers across the world, even in places where there's not yet a CocoaHeads chapter.

What's the difference between NSCoder Night and CocoaHeads? CocoaHeads is a once-a-month user group meeting, typically with presentations and demos. NSCoder Night is a weekly get-together, a time to talk to your fellow hackers, to get help with issues you're bumping into, to show off cool tricks, and to actually have some time specifically set aside for your side projects.

The next CocoaHeads Silicon Valley meeting will be on Thursday, October 11, 2007 — that's this Thursday! — at 7:30 in the Town Hall auditorium at Apple. That's just inside Infinite Loop 4, right around the loop at Apple's campus in Cupertino. See the web site for directions.

This month's presentation is a special treat! Greg Robbins and David Phillip Oster of Google will be speaking about the Google Data APIs and the Objective-C Google Data framework that they've created for easy access to it on Mac OS X. It's a great API and they're going to be great speakers, so come on down to Apple and take a look at what they've created. Scott Stevenson has more Google Data API pointers at his Theocacao weblog.

Thanks a ton to Scott Stevenson and Steve Zyszkiewicz for doing the organizing!

In general, at a CocoaHeads meeting we do some introductions, have a presentation including Q&A time with the presenter, and then have an open Q&A and demo-your-cool-app period. After the meeting there's more independent mingling and discussion.

When we haven't had a presentation or two lined up, we've also had some great "unmeetings" (in the spirit of "unconferences") where we came up with an agenda for the core of the meeting on the fly by writing down topics and questions on our room's whiteboard and talking about each one of them for a few minutes. It worked really well.

The next CocoaHeads Silicon Valley meeting will be on Thursday, September 13, 2007 — that's today! — at 7:30 in the Town Hall auditorium at Apple. That's just inside Infinite Loop 4, right around the loop at Apple's campus in Cupertino. See the web site for directions.

Thanks a ton to Scott Stevenson and Steve Zyszkiewicz for doing the organizing!

In general, at a CocoaHeads meeting we do some introductions, have a presentation including Q&A time with the presenter, and then have an open Q&A and demo-your-cool-app period. After the meeting there's more independent mingling and discussion.

When we haven't had a presentation or two lined up, we've also had some great "unmeetings" (in the spirit of "unconferences") where we came up with an agenda for the core of the meeting on the fly by writing down topics and questions on our room's whiteboard and talking about each one of them for a few minutes. It worked really well.

The next CocoaHeads Silicon Valley meeting will be on Thursday, August 9, 2007 — that's today! — at 7:30 in the Town Hall auditorium at Apple. That's just inside Infinite Loop 4, right around the loop at Apple's campus in Cupertino. See the web site for directions.

Bill Bumgarner will be talking about bridging dynamic languages like Python and Ruby to Cocoa, and scripting in Cocoa. See Scott Stevenson's post on tonight's meeting for more details.

Thanks a ton to Scott Stevenson and Steve Zyszkiewicz for doing the organizing!

In general, at a CocoaHeads meeting we do some introductions, have a presentation including Q&A time with the presenter, and then have an open Q&A and demo-your-cool-app period. After the meeting there's more independent mingling and discussion.

When we haven't had a presentation or two lined up, we've also had some great "unmeetings" (in the spirit of "unconferences") where we came up with an agenda for the core of the meeting on the fly by writing down topics and questions on our room's whiteboard and talking about each one of them for a few minutes. It worked really well.

Here's a tidbit I heard on a podcast earlier this year: The Canberra, Australia .NET users group has 60 people attend a typical meeting. Given the large number of Mac developers — not to mention people interested in Mac development — in the San Francisco Bay Area, we should be able to beat that easily! Spread the word and post a link to the CocoaHeads Silicon Valley page on your own blog, and let everybody know your plans for attending! And if you have something you'd like to talk about, contact either myself or our organizer Steve Zyszkiewicz.

Michael Agustin started a Facebook group for CocoaHeads! If you're a CocoaHead — or would like to be one — and you're on Facebook, feel free to join!

The next CocoaHeads Silicon Valley meeting will be on Thursday, April 12, 2007 from 7:30-9PM in the Hong Kong conference room at Apple. That's just inside the entrance to Infinite Loop 1, the main headquarters building at Apple's campus in Cupertino.

See the web site for details, directions, and the organizer's contact information.

R. Tyler Ballance will be talking about C#, Microsoft .NET 3.0 and Visual Studio.NET 2005 as someone who has used both platforms extensively. But don't worry, he's not pitching us on becoming a Microsoft developer! He'll be comparing and contrasting it with Objective-C, Cocoa, Xcode and Interface Builder — even covering some of what's coming in Leopard — and he may even cover what the Open Source community has to offer with Mono.

As always, we'll also be hanging out and talking about Cocoa in general, discussing new and cool things that have come up in the past month, and helping each other out. Join us!

The next CocoaHeads Silicon Valley meeting will be on Thursday, December 14, 2006 at 7:30 P.M. tonight in the Hong Kong conference room at Apple. That's just inside the entrance to Infinite Loop 1, the main headquarters building at Apple's campus in Cupertino. See the web site for directions.

Dan Wood of Karelia Software will be showing off their excellent Sandvox web site creation tool and talking about its development. Sandvox is a really cool application, and was one of the first major third-party applications to adopt Core Data. Thanks a ton to Scott Stevenson for setting it up, and for letting me know about it!

Last month, Scott Stevenson gave a great presentation on using TextMate for Cocoa development, and Simon Fell demonstrated his very cool SF³ and SoqlXplorer applications for synchronizing with and working with Salesforce.com data on Mac OS X. Simon also gave us the scoop on his plans for releasing his Cocoa Salesforce.com client API, zkSforce, as Open Source!

Here's a tidbit I heard on a podcast: The Canberra, Australia .NET users group has 60 people attend a typical meeting. Given the large number of Mac developers — not to mention people interested in Mac development — in the San Francisco Bay Area, we should be able to beat that easily! Spread the word and post a link to the CocoaHeads Silicon Valley page on your own blog, and let everybody know your plans for attending! And if you have something you'd like to talk about, contact either myself, our organizer Steve Zyszkiewicz, or Scott Stevenson.

The next CocoaHeads Silicon Valley meeting will be on Thursday, December 14, 2006 at 7:30 in the Hong Kong conference room at Apple. That's just inside the entrance to Infinite Loop 1, the main headquarters building at Apple's campus in Cupertino. See the web site for directions.

Update: Dan Wood of Karelia Software will be showing off their excellent Sandvox web site creation tool and talking about its development. Sandvox is a really cool application, and was one of the first major third-party applications to adopt Core Data. Thanks a ton to Scott Stevenson for setting it up, and for letting me know about it!

In general, at a CocoaHeads meeting we do some introductions, have a presentation including Q&A time with the presenter, and then have an open Q&A and demo-your-cool-app period. After the meeting there's more independent mingling and discussion.

When we haven't had a presentation or two lined up, we've also had some great "unmeetings" (in the spirit of "unconferences") where we came up with an agenda for the core of the meeting on the fly by writing down topics and questions on our room's whiteboard and talking about each one of them for a few minutes. It worked really well.

Last month, Scott Stevenson gave a great presentation on using TextMate for Cocoa development, and Simon Fell demonstrated his very cool SF³ and SoqlXplorer applications for synchronizing with and working with Salesforce.com data on Mac OS X. Simon also gave us the scoop on his plans for releasing his Cocoa Salesforce.com client API, zkSforce, as Open Source!

Here's a tidbit I heard on a podcast today: The Canberra, Australia .NET users group has 60 people attend a typical meeting. Given the large number of Mac developers — not to mention people interested in Mac development — in the San Francisco Bay Area, we should be able to beat that easily! Spread the word and post a link to the CocoaHeads Silicon Valley page on your own blog, and let everybody know your plans for attending! And if you have something you'd like to talk about, contact either myself or our organizer Steve Zyszkiewicz.