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
Perhaps I’m demented or just cursed, but I can hardly get through any significant project without having to reverse engineer something. Sometimes it’s part of the system, sometimes its other applications. I’ll glide over some of the tools I use to examine software, from the static (HexFiend, file, strings, otool, otx, classdump, MagicHat) to the interactive (gdb, F-Script). Think of it as a live version of my Late Night Cocoa podcasts (part 1, part 2).
I’ll also provide a History of Programming Languages conference review, we’ll cover WWDC07 announcements and Dave Dribin will let us try to hack his iPhone (but don’t tell him I said that).
Dinner
If you want pizza, bring along three dollars and we'll all chip in.
