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PSIG 104: Thursday, June 7th, 2007

Programming Special Interest Group
When:
Thursday, June 7th, 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
There's numerous bridges (Python, Ruby, Perl) for Objective-C. While Apple has abandoned its own Java bridge, 10.4 introduced the little-known JavaScript bridge. Developed for Dashboard widgets, it can also be used in standard Cocoa apps. Jonathan ‘Wolf’ Rentzsch will walk you through calling JavaScript from Cocoa and Cocoa from JavaScript.

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.

Wednesday, June 06, 2007
12:00 AM