PSIG 107: Thurs, September 6th, 2007

When:

Thursday, September 6th, 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 premiere Xmo’d: an Xcode plugin that makes custom Core Data entity classes totally painless.

Previously custom Core Data entity classes were a pain. They’re worth it in the long run, and mogenerator significantly eases the pain, but the pain’s still there. Xmo’d makes it easier to use custom classes than generic classes, even from your project’s very first entity. This is a total reversal from previous Core Data development — now it’s easier to do the right thing. It’s as if you built muscle mass by eating Ben & Jerry’s.

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, September 04, 2007
01:47 PM