CocoaHeads Aachen

About CocoaHeads

CocoaHeads.org is an international group devoted to discussion of Apple's Cocoa Framework for programming on MacOS X. During monthly meetings, members present on their projects and offer tutorials on various programming topics.

We are the CocoaHeads Aachen Chapter, hosted by the Media Computing and Human-Computer Interaction Group at RWTH Aachen University and supported by Apple. We get together for informal short talks and demos, have a pizza, and talk code.

For a more informal get-together, check out our NSCoder Night.

When

We get together on the last Thursday of each month at 7 PM in the Media Lab (see below for directions). Free food and drinks are provided courtesy of Apple.

Who

• Stefan Hafeneger
• Amin Negm-Awad
• Werner Lonsing
• Damian Lubosch

Next Event

Thursday, March, 25th 2010 at 7 PM in the i10 Lecture Room 2010 (directions below).

Talks:

• tba (searching for a talk, please contact Damian)

Joining Us

Because space is limited, participation is by invitation only. To join:

1. Simply send Damian an email with your Apple/iPhone Developer ID (so we can share developer-only information), a paragraph about your current Cocoa development skills and interests, and past and current Cocoa projects. (We probably won't have to send you away without invitation, but we need to have a headcount to switch rooms if necessary, and to get enough food and drinks for everybody.)
2. Sign up for our low-traffic CocoaHeads Aachen mailing list. Stefan will validate your subscription request.
3. Subscribe to our iCal calendar.
4. Follow us on Twitter

Directions

We meet at RWTH Aachen University, in the Computer Science Center ("Informatikzentrum"), Main Building ("Hauptbau"), ground floor, room 2010: i10 Lecture Room, Ahornstr. 55, 52074 Aachen, Germany (Google Maps).

There is a parking lot in front of the side entrance on Halifaxstraße. Here are some more detailed directions for public transport and cars.

It is possible that the doors are already locked if you arrive. In this case call +49 241 80 - 21060 so someone can open the door.

Previous Events

• February, 25th 2010: Werner Lonsing: "MapKit"
• January, 27th 2010: Apple Keynote about the new iPad
• December, 17th 2009: Stefan Hafeneger: "Aperture TiltShift PlugIn" (no slides and code this time)
• November, 26th 2009: Udo Borkowski: "Ruby & Cocoa" (Slides and Ruby Sample Code)
• October 29, 2009: Jan Peter Krämer: "Cocoa Reverse Engineering and Mail Plugin Development" (Slides and Code)
• September 24, 2009: Stefan Hafeneger: "My Summer at Apple"; Kai Brüning: New Snow Leopard Technologies: Blocks, Grand Central Dispatch (GCD) (sorry, no slides this time)
• August 27, 2009: Thomas Voßen, "CUDA on Mac OS X" (Slides and Sample Code); StuffMC, "iPhone projects"
• July 30, 2009: Udo Borkowski, "Spotlight Programming" (Sildes, Resources (22MB))
• June 18, 2009: Werner Lonsing, "QTKit" (Slides, Sample Code)
• May 28, 2009: Torsten Kammer, "Cocoa Higher Order Messaging" (Slides and Sample Code)
• April 29, 2009: Stefan Hafeneger, "Scripting Bridge" (Keynote Slides, Sample Code)
• March 26, 2009: Amin Negm-Awad, "Aspect-Oriented Programming"; Stefan Hafeneger, "Bonjour Demystified" (Slides)
• February 26, 2009: Kai Brüning, "Unit Tests - Aufzucht und Pflege" (Slides and Sample Code); Stefan Hafeneger, "Cocoa PlugIns" (Slides)
• January 29, 2009: Udo Borkowski, "Porting a Windows MFC Application to Cocoa" (PDF of Keynote Slides)
• November 27, 2008: Amin Negm-Awad, "Dispatching in Objective-C" (Keynote Slides); Stefan Hafeneger, "Distributed Objects" (Keynote Slides, Sample Code)
• October 30, 2008: Werner Lonsing, "GPS: More than WhereAmI" (Keynote Slides)
• September 25, 2008: Kai Brüning, "Plug-ins for Interface Builder 3" (video to be done, Sample Code)
• August 28, 2008: Stefan Hafeneger, "Developing multi-touch Applications for Mac OS X" (video to be done)
• July 31, 2008: Amin Negm-Awad, "Advanced Cocoa Bindings" (video to be done, Sample Code)
• June 26, 2008: Werner Lonsing, "CoreImage: Digital Arts for Cocoa Developers"; Jonathan Diehl: "iPhone and SQLite" (CoreImage Resources, iPhone SQLite sample code)
• May 29, 2008: Stefan Hafeneger, "iPhone DataMatrix Reader: from Zero to Hero". (barcode reader Source Code)
• April 24, 2008
• ... (meetings started earlier in 2008, listing to be done)

NSCoder Night

We have organized a few NSCoder Night events in Aachen and Cologne recently. These are entirely informal events with no presentations, just a get-together where you bring the project you're working on and talk code with others.

Next Event:

to be announced

Other Activities in the Area

There are more Cocoa events happening in the area than you might think! Here are a few pointers:

• CocoaHeads Bonn Chapter
• CocoaHeads Frankfurt Chapter

Check the worldwide CocoaHeads home page for additional chapters in Germany and elsewhere!

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