You might not guess it if you've been checking this blog since November 2013, but we have been having lively meetings every month:
- December 12, 2013. Paul Kim talked about the design and implementation of his open source OpenPanel built on ConnectionKit.
- January 9, 2014. Two speakers:
- Andy Lee showed a little one-off utility he wrote to get a column of images into a Numbers file.
- Avi Drissman showed a cool thing about AppKit internals.
- February 20, 2014. There wasn't one main presenter, but a couple of people volunteered to do show-and-tells, and Ed Marczak facilitated a general discussion. (Postponed from the usual second Thursday to the third Thursday.)
- March 13, 2014. Howard Olah-Reiken shared his recent experience using iOS view animation to develop a drag-and-drop game with points and lives.
- April 10, 2014. Andy Lee presented "Table Views on the Mac, for iOS Developers".
- May 8, 2014. David Cilia of GrubHub gave a presentation on CocoaPods. Many thanks to David and to GrubHub for hosting and feeding us this month.
- June 12, 2014. The Kinsa Smart Thermometer uses the headphone jack on mobile devices as a signal input for precise medical temperature measurements. Mike Akers discussed how Kinsa deals with the technical and usability challenges they faced. The post-meeting dinner this month was Thai food at Spice.
- July 10, 2014. This month's meeting was kindly hosted, again, by GrubHub. Two speakers:
- Pavan Podila demoed his screen utility QuickLens ("Explore the UI, down to the Pixels").
- Ariel Michaeli, CEO of appFigures, talked about the reporting service his company provides.
- August 14, 2014. Dave Wiskus discussed his work as the designer of Vesper.
- September 11, 2014. Kevin Wolkober talked about KuaiBoard, his iOS 8 keyboard app, and about iOS keyboard apps in general.
- October 9, 2014. Pavan Padila agreed to give a follow-up talk on QuickLens, to discuss the many problems he solved in making a usable, responsive, and testable screen utility. Pavan also waxed enthusiastic about RubyMotion.
- November 13, 2014. Mike Gozzo, visiting from Montreal, gave a talk titled "Getting to know your users as well you know your code".
- December 11, 2014. Daniel Steinberg was in town. He gave his "What the Func?" talk about Swift functions.
- January 8, 2015. Andy Lee showed how he added in-app purchases of auto-renewing subscriptions to a Mac app.
UPDATE: Whoops! I just noticed three other months had gone unmentioned.
- August 8, 2013. Brian Papa talked about his bicycling app, and what he's learned about MapKit and working with NYC OpenData.
- September 12, 2013. Samantha John, co-founder at Hopscotch Technologies, talked about Hopscotch.
- October 10, 2013. Natalie Podrazik, then at 29th Street Publishing, talked about how they implemented Emily Books Reader, their first Book Club app in the newsstand.