Thanks to Ed for editing this. The logo at the beginning and end is a nice touch.
Use the direct link if you're on an iOS device: Daniel Jalkut on Run Loops.
I like how I introduce Daniel "without further ado", then proceed to explain who he is, which is in fact further ado.
Here's a PDF of Daniel's slides.
Hope to see you all next month!
I'm running late as usual, so I'll dash this off and possibly amend later or post a followup.
I don't know what our record attendance was but we probably doubled it last night at about 40 people. Fortunately Clay was able to procure us a larger conference room that could hold us.
Daniel's talk was great — it addressed areas I should definitely know better and in fact had recently struggled with. I got the talk on video which I will post this weekend. It turned out okay but I made the mistake of pointing the camera at Daniel with the bright projection screen behind him, so he looks like he's in the witness protection program.
We had quite a few newcomers who'd heard of CocoaHeads via Larry Legend's iOS meetup. Larry himself was there and told us a bit about his group. If you think 40 is a lot of people, you should have been there Monday, when he had the Apple Store packed to the rafters.
We raffled off two AppViz licenses using our traditional heads-and-tails methodology. (I wonder if arms-in-the-air/arms-folded would feel less goofy.) I've sent IdeaSwarm the info they need to generate the license keys.
When it looked like we had about 20 for dinner, someone suggested calling Patsy's to warn them and to let them know we wouldn't mind being broken up into multiple tables if necessary. This turned out to be a very good idea. When we got there they had set up a gigantic table for us and they greeted us very cheerfully.
Welcome to the new CocoaHeadsNYC web site.
Our next meeting is tonight, Thursday, July 14. Daniel Jalkut will give a talk entitled "Block, Don't Run: An intro to Cocoa run loops":
NSRunLoop lives at the heart of every Cocoa application for iOS or Mac OS X, yet many developers don't have a clear understanding for how it works. Daniel will give a high level overview of the run loop and how it mediates between the system's resources and your application's unique functionality.
In addition, IdeaSwarm is providing us with two licenses for their latest release of AppViz (normally $49) which we'll raffle off using our usual undignified method.
As always, we'll go to Patsy's for pizza afterward.
Feel free to come with technical questions for the group. There will also be time for brief ad hoc show-and-tell if you want to demo your latest project or show us a bug that's been stumping you.
When: July 14, 2011, 6:30 PM – 8:00 PM
Where: Google, 76 9th Ave, New York, NY 10011
On arrival: Use the 9th Ave entrance. Tell the building guard you're going to Google. Present ID to get your badge. Go to the 4th floor. CocoaHeads meets in the room named "Inwood", to the left of the reception desk. Any problems, call or text Ed Marczak at XXX-XXX-XXXX or Andy Lee at XXX-XXX-XXXX. See you there!
I'll be filling out this site in the near future so that this can be your first stop for all things related to CocoaHeadsNYC. All feedback and suggestions are welcome.
Thanks to all for making this a great CocoaHeads group — and welcome to newcomers!
–Andy