PSIG 83: Thursday, May 5th, 2005

When:

Thursday, May 5th, 2005 @ 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
With 10.4 finally shipping, the year-long NDA'd topic drought finally draws to an end. It's raining new APIs. Core Data, Sync Services. Core Image. Spotlight. PDFKit.

And Dashboard, which runs these things called "Widgets". Widgets are web pages masquerading as Desk Accessories, running in their own layer above your regular applications. I've written a couple of Widgets now, with a few more in the queue. I'll walk you through the creation of a Widget, enumerating the technologies involved (briefly: HTML, CSS, JavaScript and optionally Objective-C).

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, May 02, 2005
09:42 PM