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The next meeting will be at 6:30PM on Tuesday, July 14 at the usual location. Details & updates are available at our Google Group.

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The next meeting will be at 6:30PM on Tuesday, April 14 at the usual location. Details are available in this thread at our Google Group.

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I just realized — we haven’t posted a notice about tomorrow’s tacow meeting here on the blog. In case you missed the announcement, it’ll be at 6:30PM on Tuesday, January 13 at the usual location. Updates will be posted over at our Google Group.

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The folks over at CocoaHeads have updated their CMS. Among the new features is an automatically generated .ics to which you can subscribe.

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We’ll be holding our next meeting at 6:30PM on Tuesday, October 21 at the usual location.

First up, Hossein and his group from Ryerson will show off their new iPhone application, a tool for air travellers. Then, will have a report from the tacowhands who were at C4[2] in Chicago last weekend (by all accounts, it was an amazing conference). As usual, we'll post details here and on the Google Group as they become available.

See you there!

Update #1: Because of the upcoming federal election, we’ve decided to reschedule the meeting to a week later that before.

Update #2: Due to a scheduling confilct, our usual meeting room is unavailable, so our hosts at Ryerson are trying to find us a new one. Keep an eye on the Google Group for updates.

Thanks to Brandon for last night’s guest presentation. His UI widget framework & IB plug-in will surely simplify a lot of developers’ lives — it’ll be released under a BSD-like license in the near future. If you ever wanted HUD controls or a no-code preferences window (w00t!), you’ll be really pleased.

There’s also some interest in holding a sequel to the first Toronto CocoaCamp, likely with more iPhone content (assuming the NDA is lifted). While taking the organizational reins is more than we’re up for, we’d be happy to have tacow’s resources serve as a clearinghouse for info.

Finally, one meeting attendee mentioned he wasn’t aware that we had dropped our original mailing list. Please subscribe to tacow’s Google Group for announcements & discussion.

See you at the next meeting, currently scheduled for Tuesday, October 7.

Update (Nov. 13): BWToolkit is available here.

We’ll be holding our next meeting at 6:30PM on Tuesday, July 8 at the usual location.

We haven't decided on topics yet, but David will probably have some sort of WWDC & WOWODC recap, and I may blather on about something. Or we could do something completely different. If anyone has anything they want to present, please speak up. As usual, we'll post details here and on the Google Group as they become available.

See you there!

Update (7/1): Brandon Walkin, who started the IndieHIG, has volunteered to present his latest project. He’s been working on a framework & Interface Builder plug–in with a collection of UI elements useful for modern Mac apps.

We’ll be holding our next meeting at 6:30PM on Tuesday, April 8 at Ryerson University, thanks again to Bart and the Department of Computer Science. We’ll probably be in the computer science conference room ENG288/9 on the second floor of the George Vari Engineering and Computing Centre at the south–east corner of Church & Gould. (We’ll post updates here or on the Google group.)

First, Steve Hayman will talk about the new iPhone SDK. Sure, it’s under NDA during the beta period, but Steve works at Apple and he has pull.

Then, we’ll discuss the possibility of holding a local Cocoa BarCamp. With no affordable local Cocoa training, it would be a great way to grow the community. Please bring come equipped with ideas for sessions. We can continue the discussion at the pub afterwards.

Update (4/4): Due to changes to Ryerson’s security, we may not have access to the conference room. We won’t know for sure until we get there Tuesday, but we may have to relocate to another room around the corner on the same floor (ENG207, IIRC).

Update (4/7): No room change is necessary — we’ll be in the same one as usual (ENG288/9).

Let's go to WordPress.

First the bad news: according to the gang at Ironcoder, the MacSB wiki is “down because of too much spam, and too few volunteers wanting to help maintain the wiki.” I've removed the link from the sidebar. Bummer. (The IndieHig wiki is still available, but it hasn't been updated in a while — the last note was a promise few months back to revamp it with a focus Leopard. Update (Feb. 16): It looks like the IndieHig wiki is down now too, but only temporarily. Visiting the site pops an authentication dialog with the zone identified as “Wiki (being revamped)”.)

Now the good news: the CocoaDev wiki now has forums in a bid to reduce mailing list mode in the wiki articles. It's always good to see another Mac developer resource in the community.

One more thing: we're on track for the next meeting on April 8. I plan on being there this time, and doing my presentation on licensing and serial numbers in Cocoa apps. I also heard that at the last meeting, someone volunteered to do a talk on the forthcoming iPhone SDK (assuming it's released in time and not under any kind of NDA). See you there.

After postponing the last one by a month so we could talk about Leopard, we're back to our normal quarterly schedule for tacow meetings. Our next will be at 6:30PM on Tuesday, January 8, 2008 at Ryerson University, thanks to the Department of Computer Science. As usual, we'll be in the computer science conference room ENG288/9 on the second floor of the George Vari Engineering and Computing Centre at the south–east corner of Church & Gould.

We've got a few topics on deck this time:

• I'll be talking about e–commerce providers and licensing in Cocoa applications: issues related to payment processing and license keys, with a focus on Aquatic Prime. I won't be able to make it on Tuesday, so I'm going to save this topic for a future meeting. Sorry.
• David will be presenting the State of WebObjects: what's new in version 5.4, Eclipse & WOLips.
• Hossein Rahnama (our host at Ryerson) will talk about his group's work in socially–aware systems. He'll demo their mobile–phone application that uses Bluetooth to reach out and touch someone (no, not literally). Development is Mac–hosted, so it should be interesting. For some background, check out the segment from CBC's “The Hour” (don't let the URL scare you — it's SFW) or this article from The Toronto Star.

Again, there's no need to RSVP. Just be there or be square.

P.S. Happy holidays!