April iPhone Developers' Meetup
On Monday we held our first Silicon Valley iPhone Developers’ Meetup, titled Creating Opportunities and Applications on the iPhone. Thanks to everyone who attended for making it a great evening of information and networking, and especially Ben Stiglitz, Warren Stringer, and Chi-Hua Chien.
Building on the Google App Engine
Last week Google announced its Google App Engine, a hosting service that makes it very easy to write interesting web applications that run on Google’s servers. To try it myself, I decided to write a small photoblogging application. The result is here. It uses Nu on the client side to capture pictures from an Apple camera and automatically uploads them to my web application, which is written in Python and running on the Google App Engine.
Here are some first impressions from working with the App Engine. It’s not an introduction to the App Engine; for that see Google’s site and many other blog posts. Instead, it’s part wisdom, part rant. Ready?
Screen Captures with Nu
Here is a Nu version of Marcus Crafter’s RubyCocoa screen capture script. It doesn’t add anything new to Marcus’ script; it just shows how the same underlying interfaces can be used from Nu.
Two of my favorite words
The correspondence of Nu and Objective-C
[Oxygen:~/Desktop/Repositories/Nu] tim% nush Nu Shell. % (set a (array 'x 'y 'z)) <NSCFArray:361620> % (a 1) y
Helpful Hints for using Nu with Xcode
While it’s not my favorite environment, it’s certainly possible to use Nu from within Xcode. That’s especially useful for platforms that have undocumented dependencies on Xcode. Here are some tips.
C4[1] Video Online
Many thanks to Jonathan Rentzsch for posting this video of my talk!
Silicon Valley iPhone Developer's Meetup
Together with Ben Stiglitz, I’m organizing the Silicon Valley iPhone Developer’s Meetup. Our first meeting is on April 28, and I would like to organize at least one informal meeting between now and then, probably a dinner in Palo Alto either Monday 3/24 or Monday 3/31. If you’d like to join us, please email me for details (tim at neontology dot com).
Update
The dinner will be Monday 3/31 at 7pm in Palo Alto. RSVP by email for the location.
