PSIG 68: Thursday, September 4th, 2003

When:

Thursday, September 4th, 2003 @ 7pm

Where:

The NorthWest of Us' office

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
Chris Hanson will talk about his BDRuleEngine, an open-source framework which adds a rule engine to Cocoa. We already know the flexibility of data-driven software. Rules take it a step further by making the data smarter. Using BDRuleEngine (and the BDControl framework it uses), Chris will demonstrate an application which derives its behavior from rules. In addition, if there's still some time left over, Chris will walk through an Interface Builder Palette which greatly reduces the need for glue code when tying a model to a NSTableView.

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.

Monday, September 01, 2003
08:28 PM