PSIG 102: Thursday, April 5th, 2007

When:

Thursday, April 5th, 2007 @ 7pm

Where:

Inverness Room (downstairs rear) of the Holiday Inn Rolling Meadows

Schedule:

Show & Tell
We'll start out the meeting by going around the table and talking about what we're currently working on or learning about. Handouts are welcome, or bring along your PowerBook and we'll hook it up to the projector.

Book Reports
Bring along the book you're currently reading, or one of your old favorites. Hopefully the book would have some relevance to programming, but we're fairly open-minded. Just give us an overview the book's topic, and what you liked (or disliked) about it.

Topics
Jonathan ‘Wolf’ Rentzsch will delve into QTKit, the Cocoa interface to QuickTime, the Mac OS X’s multimedia architecture. Introduced in Mac OS X 10.3, QTKit enables you to easily play back many types of media (audio+video) in your app, edit the media and even export it to differing formats. Wolf will explore how its linage from NSMovie (basically: none) and its under-the-hood architecture and limitations.

Adding to the fun, Tom Swift will do a demo of his “crazy new web 2.0 startup site”. Be sure to invite all your venture capitalist friends for this one.

Dinner
If you want pizza, bring along three dollars and we'll all chip in.

Looking for Presenters:

I'm always on the look-out for folks to want to give a talk for a meeting. The talk doesn't need to be long (10 minutes is fine if your topic is small or you just want to tease the group) and you don't need to be an expert (just tell us why you think your topic is cool or your experiences). Toss me an email and I'll assign you a chunk of time.

Tuesday, April 03, 2007
03:52 AM