PSIG 108: Thurs, October 4th, 2007

When:

Thursday, October 4th, 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

Shh, don’t tell anyone, but I’m more excited by Tim Burks’ Nu programming language than I am about Mac OS X 10.5. I’m hoping it becomes an S-expression gateway drug for legions of Cocoa coders.

Nu is a Lisp-like scripting language for Objective-C + Cocoa. It’s written in Objective-C with the intent of deep interaction with Objective-C. I’ll cover the basics of Nu, the provided tools+libraries and its awesome philosophy.

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, October 02, 2007
02:31 PM