CAWUG: October 2003 Meeting

PLEASE NOTE: different time & location --- 7:00 PM @ Apple Store.

When:

Tuesday, October 28th, 2003 @ 7pm
(Alex Johnson's iCal: view subscribe).

Where:

Apple Store Michigan Avenue
679 North Michigan Ave. (at the corner of Huron & Michigan Ave.)
Chicago, IL 60611

Agenda:

• Introductions & Announcements

• I/OKit by Chuck Remes
Chuck has worked on an ethernet driver for the DEC Tulip chip set and will discuss I/OKit. I/OKit provides all the basic services to develop a hardware or software driver for darwin (or OS X). It is a powerful toolkit that let's the programmer bring all the power of OOP to the world of drivers, allowing such things as subclassing, method overload, and driver stacking. This presentation will provide a high-level 45 minute overview of some of its basic features and principles.

• xCode & new Cocoa features in Panther by Chris Hansen
Chris Hanson of bDistributed.com will go over some of the additions to Cocoa included in Panther, as well as the new Xcode IDE and the updated Interface Builder..

We will, as usual, also have Q & A, a discussion of future meeting topics and dates. We are very thankful to Kiwi Internet Group for the list-serve, and other resources they have provided to support this group.

We also wish to thank the folks who run the theater space at the Apple store for letting us have our meetings there. Since there are no eating facilities at the store, we will not bring in food. However, given the store's good location, it should be easy to continue the discussion at a local eatery or pub like Timothy O'Toole's at 622 Fairbanks (2 blocks east of the store) which worked out very well last month.

Future meetings dates: December 2nd, January 6th, February 3rd, March 2nd. Starting in December we are going to move back to the First Tuesday of the month.

Future meeting topics. We are looking for volunteers to present on various topics. Here is a list of topics that were suggested after the last meeting:

We currently have no one signed up for any of these topics, so get one while you can :-): Detailed Introduction to WO & tools; EOF in depth; WebServices (WebObjects Server / various clients); WebObjects Direct To Web; WebObjects Java Client; Detailed introduction to ObjC & building a Cocoa App/ Introduction to Foundation & AppKit (possibly 2 meetings); wrapping Unix command line commands in a GUI app. If you have any suggestion or requests, please feel free to bring them with you to the next meeting.

Saturday, October 25, 2003
01:21 AM