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Open Source iOS Projects (CIDUG meeting, November 22, 2011)

BP — Wed, 23 Nov 2011 16:42:20 +0000

Thanks to everyone who turned out on Tuesday night for my CIDUG presentation on utilizing open source iOS projects. The presentation went a bit longer than I was hoping, largely due to the volume of demos that I had.

If you would like to download a PDF of the presentation, here is a link:

Open Source iOS Projects presentation

Also, if you would like to download a ZIP file of all of the demos that I did, here is a link for that:

Open Source iOS Projects demos

I realized this morning that what I should have done was to create a workspace, and then drag all of the individual projects into that one workspace for the demo. I have done this in the code that I uploaded, so when you unzip the demos file, just open the Demo projects.workspace file and then just use the Scheme selector at the top of the Xcode window to select which demo you want to look at or try out.

Please let me know if you have any questions or suggestions on the presentation or the demo code. I hope everyone out there has a safe and happy holiday season.

Managing Relationships With App Users (CIDUG meeting, October 25, 2011)

BP — Wed, 26 Oct 2011 02:30:49 +0000

Ran Flasterstein gave a presentation tonight about his experiences in communicating with users of his apps. He mainly spoke about the ways that he encourages conversation with his users through feedback and e-mail.

Next month at the CIDUG meeting, I will be giving my presentation, Open Source iOS Projects. Hopefully, since the meeting date is only a couple of days before Thanksgiving, there will be fewer folks there for me to inflict my wit and wisdom on.

BTW, happy birthday to the pride of Kelvington, Wendel Clark. In my humble opinion, they should not even bother giving any other Leaf the C.

Hello, Let’s Talk! Peer-Peer Communication using GameKit, Sockets, and Bonjour. (CIDUG meeting, March 22, 2011)

BP — Wed, 23 Mar 2011 00:42:06 +0000

Justin Munger gave a presentation on iPhone peer-to-peer communications at the Columbus iPhone Developer User Group on March 22, 2011. He had some great examples of applications he had put together that used GameKit and sockets to implement a simple chat type application.

I have been thinking of doing some peer-to-peer communcation in one of my applications, so his sample code should hopefully come in handy.

BTW, happy 80th birthday to the best… and, most dashing… starship captain… ever seen on the small or big screen, William Shatner. Make sure to read with the dramatic pauses for full effect.

The O in iOS is for Orchestra (CIDUG meeting, July 27, 2010)

BP — Wed, 28 Jul 2010 14:02:43 +0000

Geoffrey Goetz gave a presentation on iPhone application development at the Columbus iPhone Developer User Group on July 27, 2010. His topic was mainly a recap of some of the application approval and performance issues that were covered at the 2010 WWDC.

The most interesting part of his presentation for me was his presentation on using the Zombies feature of Instruments. We had some random crashes going on in our Basketball Statware application, and this might have helped to chase down the problem. As it was, I believe we fixed the problem by moving like named variables just sitting by themselves in the implementation files inside the class as class variables.

Jamais Vu (CIDUG meeting, October 27, 2009)

BP — Thu, 29 Oct 2009 01:06:03 +0000

Geoffrey Goetz gave a presentation on iPhone software development at the Columbus iPhone Developer User Group on October 27, 2009. He mostly talked about a lot of different topics, most importantly the creation of an iPhone application that utilized different types of view controllers.

During his demo, he created a new project from scratch based on the window template of the iPhone SDK, even though he was creating an application with a tab bar. I am probably going to revisit one of the applications that I am working on, which is also an application that uses a tab bar. However, I have had some issues with it, and I think that after seeing Geoffrey’s demo, it might be better to create it the way he did it than to use the tab bar application template included in the SDK.

Geoffrey posted his demo code and presentation files to the CIDUG web site. Here is a link:

http://groups.google.com/group/cidug/files

Thanks to Geoffrey, he did a nice job (even though he ran way way over the time) and his information was super relevant.

iPhone Game Development presentation (CIDUG meeting, August 25, 2009)

BP — Wed, 26 Aug 2009 13:39:39 +0000

Mac Liaw gave a presentation on iPhone game development at the Columbus iPhone Developer User Group on August 25, 2009. He mostly talked about how the iPhone is a very different platform to develop games for than the typical video game consoles.

I can sort of understand some of what he was talking about. In my experience developing games for the Atari 2600, a one or two person team can, with a good idea, produce a killer product. (Of course, the iPhone has at minimum 128 megabytes of RAM, while the Atari 2600 had 128 bytes of RAM, which is a topic for another blog post.) I have been kicking around a couple of ideas for games, now all I have to do is learn OpenGL ES. And find an artist who will work for peanuts.

Three20 Presentation (CIDUG meeting, July 28, 2009)

BP — Wed, 29 Jul 2009 23:40:19 +0000

Justin Searls gave a very good presentation on the Three20 toolkit for the iPhone SDK. The presentation was given at the Columbus iPhone Developer User Group on July 28, 2009.

The Three20 toolkit has a lot of interesting additions and extensions to the iPhone SDK, the most used of which is a photo and thumbnail browser that is based on the ones written for the Facebook iPhone application.

Here is a link to the Columbus iPhone Developers User Group:

CIDUG

And here is a link to Justin’s posting to the group, which includes instructions on where to find the Three20 code and information on installation and usage:

7/28 CIDUG Meeting on Three20