Hong Kong CocoaHeads~ for Cocoa, Mac, iPhone developers

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

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.

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)