CocoaHeads Aachen

About CocoaHeads

CocoaHeads.org is an international group devoted to discussion of Apple's Cocoa Framework for programming on macOS and iOS. 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. We get together for informal short talks and demos, have a pizza, and talk code.

From time to time it happens that we draw prizes sponsored by supporting companies like: JetBrains, dpunkt.verlag, O'Reilly

When

We usually get together on the last Thursday of each month at 7 PM in room 2222 (see below for directions).

Next Events:

• Thursday, October 25, 2018 at 7 p.m. in RWTH Computer Science Centre, Ahornstr. 55, 52074 Aachen, Room 2222
  • Christian Menschel: "[weak self] handling in closures: Done right"
  • Sven Titgemeyer provides a new Code Golf challenge!
• Thursday, November 29, 2018 at 7 p.m. in RWTH Computer Science Centre, Ahornstr. 55, 52074 Aachen, Room 2222
  • Call for Talk!

General Agenda

• Get-together
• Discuss developer related news
• Talk/Presentation
• Food
• Discussion

(Duration: approx. 2 - 3 hours)

Joining Us

It's free, but please RSVP! For staying up-to-date with our schedule, here are some options:

1. Sign up for our low-traffic CocoaHeads Aachen mailing list.
2. Subscribe to our iCal calendar.
3. Follow us on Twitter.
4. Visit our group on facebook or join the global CocoaHeads group.
5. Check our meetup schedule on Meetup.com

To RSVP, please send Michael a short email or sign-up on Meetup for one of our events.

Directions

We meet at RWTH Aachen University, in the Computer Science Center ("Informatikzentrum"), Main Building ("Hauptbau"), second floor, room 2222 (accessible through the staircase in the foyer), 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.

The building will be locked around 7 p.m., so just drop in a few minutes earlier to be on the safe side... If you are late, just call +49 241 80 - 21060 so someone can open the door.

Community-related Events

• Swift Conf: September 19 & 20, 2018 (Cologne, Germany) -> get your Early Bird Ticket until June 15!
• Macoun (Frankfurt, Germany)

Previous Events

2018

• September 27, 2018: Sven Titgemeyer: "Error Handling with iOS" — How to utilise Responder Chain for centralised error handling (Slides @ SpeakerDeck)
• August 30, 2018: Mathis Müller: "Siri Shortcuts" (Slides @ SpeakerDeck, Sample Code @ GitHub: Siri-Shortcuts-Example, PizzaBaker)
• July 26, 2018: Manuel "StuFF mc" Carrasco Molina: "Building Privacy into iOS Apps" — A look at the Karma-based APIs (Slides @ SpeakerDeck)
• June 28, 2018:
  • WWDC 2018 Wrap-up
  • Felix Wehnert: "MusicKit JS" (Slides [PDF, 150 KB])
• May 24, 2018 (CocoaHeads Aachen turns X)
  • Angelo Cammalleri & Felix Wehnert: "Unboxing Mapbox" (Slides [PDF, 3.6 MB])
  • Werner Lonsing: "Swift for Haters" (Slides [PDF, 2.3 MB])
  • Sven Titgemeyer: Code Golf (Repo & participants' pull requests)
• April 26, 2018:
  • Frank Lauter: "macOS / iOS-Entwicklung in Delphi/C++ mit Embarcadero RAD-Studio"
  • Tobias Arends: "Low Effort JSON Handling in Swift 4"
• March 29, 2018: Torsten Kammer: "Game Controller and HID on Mac and iOS" (Slides [PDF, 1.4 MB], demo code @ GitHub)
• February 22, 2018: Felix Wehnert: "Pen based drawing with ARKit: ARPen" (Slides [PDF, 1.2 MB], demo code @ GitHub)
• January 25, 2018: Alexander von Below: "Apple and the Human Interface"

2017 - 2008

... find the event history on our archive page!

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:

Currently, there are no planned events in Aachen. If you know about some meetups in the greater area, just drop us a note so we can mention them!

Other Activities in the Area

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

• Cologne:
  • CocoaHeads Cologne: Website, Meetup page
  • mobile.cologne
• Düsseldorf:
  • CocoaHeads Düsseldorf
  • Düsseldorf iOS Meetup
• Belgium:
  • CocoaHeads Belgium

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

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