Category Archives: macdevnet

CocoaHeads Swindon, January and February

The next CocoaHeads Swindon will take place on 4th January, at the Glue Pot in Swindon. Get here at 8 for some NSChitChat with your (well, my) local Mac developer community. There is no February meeting of Swindon CocoaHeads, on … Continue reading

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CocoaHeads Swindon is this Monday!

The town of Swindon in the Kingsbridge hundred, Wiltshire is famous for two things. The first is the Wilts and Berks Canal, linking the Kennet and Avon at Trowbridge with the Thames at Abingdon. Authorised by act of parliament in … Continue reading

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Indie app milestones part one

In the precious and scarce spare time I have around my regular contracting endeavours, I’ve been working on my first indie app. It reached an important stage in development today; the first time where I could show somebody who doesn’t … Continue reading

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NSConference videos

Scotty and the gang have been getting the NSConference videos out to the public lately, and now sessions 7-9 are available including my own session on security. The videos are really high quality, I’m impressed by the postproduction that’s gone … Continue reading

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Did you miss my NSConference talk?

The annotated presentation slides are now available to download in Keynote ’08 format! Sorry you couldn’t make it, and I hope the slides are a reasonable proxy for the real thing.

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NSConference: the aftermath

So, that’s that then, the first ever NSConference is over. But what a conference! Every session was informative, edumacational and above all enjoyable, including the final session where (and I hate to crow about this) the “American” team, who had … Continue reading

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What’s new in 2009

Of course, it’s a bit early for a retrospective of 2008, besides which I’ve already written 73 entries this year, my most prolific year to date on iamleeg. And that doesn’t count numerous tweets, stack overflow contributions and of course … Continue reading

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Free apps with macdev ticket

The Mac Developer network currently have a Special Offer running until christmas eve, get a free copy of Changes and Code Collector Pro with your ticket. Both are useful apps for any developer’s arsenal.

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More on MacDev

Today is the day I start preparing my talk for MacDev 2009. Over the coming weeks I’ll likely write some full posts on the things I decide not to cover in the talk (it’s only an hour, after all), and … Continue reading

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MacDev 2009!

It’s a long way off, but now is a good time to start thinking about the MacDev ’09 conference, organised by the inimitable Scotty of the Mac Developer Network. This looks like being Europe’s closest answer to WWDC, but without … Continue reading

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