Thank everyone for coming.  We also need to Thank the Hong Kong University Alumni Association for supporting us in the venue.

See you guys next time in April.  

The keynote is available here.

In this meetup, we will discuss iPhone data transfer using Bonjour.  Bonjour is Apple’s implementation of zero-configuration networking.  It eliminates most  network setup hassle by completely removing network setting from users. It is, for sure, the best solution to implement network communication in our iPhone applications.

Cesar from bambooapps will lead the discussion on this topic.  Cesar is an indie developer from Spain who is currently staying in Hong Kong.  His company’s flagship apps include - FND, FND iPhone and the-very-popular Keep Your Word. 

Cesar is in our facebook group as well.  Please feel free to meet him there.

Date and Time: 18th Feb 2009 7:00 pm (the talk starts at 7:30 pm) – iCal event

Venue: 1/F, Yip Fung Building, 2 D’Aguilar Street, Central, Hong Kong (right on top of Cosmos Cafe near LKF) - google map

Signup: facebook

Event Contact: Bill

Venue Sponsor: Hong Kong University Alumni Association - 香 港 大 學 校 友 會

Topic: Web service integration with iPhone

Web 2.0 service related iPhone apps constitute a large proportion of the popular iPhone app category – facebook, twitterrific, linked in…

In the gathering, we will discuss how to a few essential components in iPhone OS which allow us to talk to common Web service API.  We will try to evaluate a few approaches with code example. The talk will be short.  We will have lots of time to discuss the topics, your experience and other random stuff.

We are moving to a new venue – Alumni Lounge.  A big thank to the HKU Alumni Association for the venue support. It’s right on top of Cosmos Cafe near LKF. Drinks and wonderful snacks (u’ve gotta try the shrimp toast!!) will be available at a good price too. So, please come, buy a drink and chill

Details

Topic: Web service integration with iPhone

Venue: 1/F, Yip Fung Building, 2 D’Aguilar Street, Central, Hong Kong (right on top of Cosmos Cafe near LKF) – google map

Time: 7:30 pm to 9:30 pm. The talk will start at 8:00 pm.

Sign up: facebook

Thanks Beansbox for the venue, Chris Chan for the presentation and everyone else for your participation.

You can find here the presentation slide and here for Ruby Cocoa documentation.

We will cover Ruby basics, Cocoa and Ruby syntax comparison and sample code.

Apple added official support to Ruby scripting, first, in Leopard. You can find Cocoa Ruby project template in Xcode. Everything in Cocoa can, basically, be mapped to Ruby through the RubyCocoa bridge.

You can have a Cocoa application project that mixes Ruby and Objective-C source files. This adds a lot more flexibility in developing our applications.

We are looking forward to see how we can leverage the beauty of Ruby in Cocoa application from Chris that evening.

Date/Time: August 21, 2008 8:00 pm – 9:30 pm

(the talk will be around 30 to 40 min)

Location: Beansbox office in Central – 3/F, 28 Stanley Street (It’s an old building. Take the staircase right between a small cafe called “一樂食館” and an output shop “ColorMix”)

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Registration: here (facebook)

The first gathering is postponed to after to the iPhone launch. It’s now on 24/7.

Cocoa is the native development framework for Mac OS X and iPhone. It is nearly a must to master Cocoa in order to develop application in these platforms.

To have everyone to get started quickly, we will go through “famous” sample code provided by Apple to introduce you the essentials.

1. One line of code browser
2. Sample Core Data application
3. iPhone sample code (if NDA is lifted by then)

These example are fun and easy to build.  Anyone with ability equivalent to basic Javascript programming can build and run those samples. By going through these samples, we hope to introduce the basic Objective-C syntax, the development environment and some common APIs.

If you are bringing a laptop (in this web site, all computing facilities are Macs unless explicitly specified) with you, please install Xcode in order to run the samples.

Venue: Cafe Corridor (openrice link) 26A Russell Street, Causeway Bay – right next to the Levi’s store opposite to Times Square
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Time: 8:00 pm – 9:00 pm (we will start at 8:00 pm instead of 7:30 originally cause it takes time for folks in Science Park to get to Causeway Bay)

Charge: buy your own drink (coffee there is amazingly good!!)

How to join: Please sign up in Facebook Event or in this post’s comment