Hong Kong CocoaHeads

Dec 18 meetup - Thanks for joining

billibala — Thu, 18 Dec 2008 17:48:17 +0000

Thanks so much for coming to our Dec meetup. We had a wonderful evening!

Special thank to Greg for the User Experience Lesson! Hey, Greg! We all feel your pain!!

This is truly an informative and enjoyable discussion about user interface development. We surely don’t have much chance for this kind of in-depth discussion - from a “lasting” pain to an implemented solution.

Moosh is available here. If anyone of you are interested in testing out some exclusive functions, please leave Greg a message in Anobii. You can email me alternative. I’ll get you two aligned.

Last but not least, thanks Beansbox for sponsoring the snack and drinks! Thanks Ultimate Mac for the venue!

Our next meetup is scheduled on some February Thursday. Please subscribe our RSS or join our facebook. Details will be posted later.

Wish you guys happy holidays and happy new year!!

Dec 18 meetup - iPhone user experience lesson

billibala — Sun, 07 Dec 2008 13:57:04 +0000

User experience has been a crucial part in all successful Mac and iPhone software design. From the application icon to implementation of feature, every component is designed with user experience put into consideration.

In this December meetup, ee’ve invited the project leader of Moosh app - Greg Sung as guest speaker to share some user experience lessons.

You may notice the change in venue. Yup, we are doing it in a Mac shop this time. And, yup, there will be special Christmas offer!! Yeah!! Shop for Christmas, folks!!

Please register the event in facebook

Date: 18 Dec 2008

Time: 7:30 pm to 9:00 pm

Venue: Ultimate Mac @ 99 Des Voeux Road, Central (Google Map)

About Moosh app:

You are on the street and you want to watch a movie. Good news: you’ve got an iPhone. Bad news: movie showtime websites suck.

Now “Moosh” is here to rescue. In this session, We’ll share with you the creation process behind Moosh and how user experience drives every feature in the application.

Web service integration with iPhone [follow-up]

billibala — Wed, 05 Nov 2008 10:01:24 +0000

Thanks everyone for coming over the October gathering. Thanks Leon for his sharing and demo.

The iPhone URL download library can be found here: http://github.com/leonho/iphone-libs. Please go and try it out!

The next CocoaHeads is coming soon. Stay tuned for more details.

Oct 23 meetup - Web service integration with iPhone

billibala — Thu, 09 Oct 2008 06:39:18 +0000

This is the first CocoaHeads gathering without iPhone NDA!! Let’s interject by doing an iPhone related topic.

Topic: Web service integration with iPhone

Web 2.0 service related iPhone apps constitute a large proportion of the popular iPhone app category - facebook, twitterrific, linked in…

In the gathering, we will discuss how to a few essential components in iPhone OS which allow us to talk to common Web service API. We will try to evaluate a few approaches with code example. The talk will be short. We will have lots of time to discuss the topics, your experience and other random stuff.

We are moving to a new venue - Alumni Lounge. A big thank to the HKU Alumni Association for the venue support. It’s right on top of Cosmos Cafe near LKF. Drinks and wonderful snacks (u’ve gotta try the shrimp toast!!) will be available at a good price too. So, please come, buy a drink and chill

Details

Topic: Web service integration with iPhone

Venue: 1/F, Yip Fung Building, 2 D’Aguilar Street, Central, Hong Kong (right on top of Cosmos Cafe near LKF) - google map

Time: 7:30 pm to 9:30 pm. The talk will start at 8:00 pm.

Sign up: facebook

Cocoa OpenGL [follow-up]

billibala — Mon, 29 Sep 2008 13:07:51 +0000

It was a great evening with a taste of Cocoa + OpenGL. Thanks Folkert for leading the talk. It’s a great one!

Slides and sample code of the talk is just uploaded. (sorry, I know it’s a bit late)

Hope you guys will download and try. If you have any questions, please find Folkert’s email in the slide.

Sept 18 - Cocoa OpenGL [venue confirmed]

billibala — Sun, 07 Sep 2008 16:03:44 +0000

OpenGL drives lots of graphics technology in OS X. It will be a real plus to have some knowledge to this foundation piece of the whole OS X graphics stack.

Our member - Folkert will host the meetup this time. He will go through the essential basics of OpenGL with slides and code.

If you are interested in graphics and imaging technology, come join us.

Venue: Beansbox Office - 3/F, 28 Stanley Street, Central (google map)

Date/Time: 18 September 2008, 8:00 pm

Sign up: facebook group / upcoming

Hong Kong Barcamp 2008

billibala — Mon, 01 Sep 2008 16:25:34 +0000

Come join the Barcamp!! It’s in Turner International Asia office in Querry Bay.

If you are interested to give a talk or you just wanna listen some interesting topics, drop by anytime between 9:30 to 5:00. We will have a drink party after the event begins at 6:30 in East Eng Brewery.

For event details, please check here

Cocoa-Ruby Scripting [2nd gathering update]

billibala — Fri, 22 Aug 2008 06:53:30 +0000

We are done with the 2nd gathering.

Thanks Beansbox for the venue, Chris Chan for the presentation and everyone else for your participation.

You can find here the presentation slide and here for Ruby Cocoa documentation.

Cocoa-Ruby Scripting

billibala — Thu, 14 Aug 2008 11:39:56 +0000

Ruby expert - Chris Chan will host the Ruby-Cocoa scripting topic for us.

We will cover Ruby basics, Cocoa and Ruby syntax comparison and sample code.

Apple added official support to Ruby scripting, first, in Leopard. You can find Cocoa Ruby project template in Xcode. Everything in Cocoa can, basically, be mapped to Ruby through the RubyCocoa bridge.

You can have a Cocoa application project that mixes Ruby and Objective-C source files. This adds a lot more flexibility in developing our applications.

We are looking forward to see how we can leverage the beauty of Ruby in Cocoa application from Chris that evening.

Date/Time: August 21, 2008 8:00 pm - 9:30 pm

(the talk will be around 30 to 40 min)

Location: Beansbox office in Central - 3/F, 28 Stanley Street (It’s an old building. Take the staircase right between a small cafe called “一樂食館” and an output shop “ColorMix”)

Google Map

Registration: here (facebook)

July 24th Meetup - Cocoa development by example [update3]

billibala — Mon, 16 Jun 2008 05:29:37 +0000

The first gathering is postponed to after to the iPhone launch. It’s now on 24/7.

Cocoa is the native development framework for Mac OS X and iPhone. It is nearly a must to master Cocoa in order to develop application in these platforms.

To have everyone to get started quickly, we will go through “famous” sample code provided by Apple to introduce you the essentials.

One line of code browser
Sample Core Data application
iPhone sample code (if NDA is lifted by then)

These example are fun and easy to build. Anyone with ability equivalent to basic Javascript programming can build and run those samples. By going through these samples, we hope to introduce the basic Objective-C syntax, the development environment and some common APIs.

If you are bringing a laptop (in this web site, all computing facilities are Macs unless explicitly specified) with you, please install Xcode in order to run the samples.

Venue: Cafe Corridor (openrice link) 26A Russell Street, Causeway Bay - right next to the Levi’s store opposite to Times Square
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Time: 8:00 pm - 9:00 pm (we will start at 8:00 pm instead of 7:30 originally cause it takes time for folks in Science Park to get to Causeway Bay)

Charge: buy your own drink (coffee there is amazingly good!!)

How to join: Please sign up in Facebook Event or in this post’s comment