Category Archives: Cocoa

NSCoderNight DC – I’ll be demoing Prizes.app

Tonight is NSCoderNight DC. It’s at the La Madeleine in Bethesda, MD at 7PM. (More directions to La Madeleine ). I missed last weeks but that’s because I was getting ready for RubyNation. Part of that was making a new … Continue reading

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Generating random numbers in Cocoa

I’m writing an application to pick prize winners for the RubyNation conference that’s coming up here in the Washington DC area. As part of that, I have to generate random numbers. So I went looking for how to generate random … Continue reading

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NSCoderNight Washington DC tonight

NSCoderNight Washington DC is meeting again tonight, July 8, 2008 at 7pm – 10pm. We meet every week on Tuesday nights. Tonight we’re discussing Chapter 5 of Cocoa Programming for Mac OSX Third Edition by Aaron Hillegass. We meet at … Continue reading

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New Programming Language Group forming in Northern Virginia

I don’t know what it is about Northern Virginia and programming languages, but we just can’t seem to get enough of them! A new group “novalanguages” has just formed. Here’s a brief description of the group: Thoughts on the makeup … Continue reading

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NSCoderNight tonight in Northern Virginia

I’ve been going to the past few NSCoderNights here in Northern Virginia. We’ve met up at Panera in Tysons before (look for the Apple logos.) But tonight we’re trying a different venue: Camille’s Sidewalk Cafe near the Courthouse Metro in … Continue reading

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2007 Training in Review

Last year I took a lot of training. In the past, my employers would usually send me to one training event. Sometimes I would get to go to two if times were good. Other times, there was no training budget. … Continue reading

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DC Cocoa Meetup July 15th

Hey all – I’ve been away on vacation. But we’re having a Cocoa Meetup in DC this Sunday July 15th. Here’s all the details: DC Cocoa Meetup Sunday, July 15, 2007 3:00 PM – 5:00 PM Java Shack 2507 N. … Continue reading

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MashPit + CocoaDevHouse at MWSF 2007

Blake told me about this event and it really makes me wish I was at Macworld right about now. Looks like a unique event that discusses and hacks together Hybrid Apps, specifically Cocoa apps that talk to open web APIs. … Continue reading

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DC Mac Programmer Meeting – February 23rd

Calling all Mac programmers in the DC area! We’re going to have the first DC Mac Programmer Meeting of 2006. (We last met in November, which I’ll have a recap of later.) And when I say we, I mean the … Continue reading

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Cocoa Search Engine

If you’re programming in Cocoa, Brian Cooke created a custom search engine for Cocoa using Rollyo that searches the main places you look for Cocoa answers. Its pretty handy.

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