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.
Two New Platforms
The Nu git repository now contains all the source code and related build tools to build Nu for Linux and the iPhone. iPhone support is currently for the simulator only, and so far, I have only tested Linux support on Ubuntu 7.10 running in VMware Fusion.
While there’s a lot of interest in the iPhone, the Nu Linux support is what has me the most excited.
Details are on Programming Nu.
Going to github
Last week I put a git repository for Nu on github. Over the weekend, I started pushing some of my smaller open source projects there, too. I think that github is a great, great tool, but that its value comes from something bigger than a site design, git, or any of the projects that it hosts. Let’s talk about that.
Fun with Distributed Objects
Here’s how you can use Distributed Objects to remotely evaluate code on your simulated iPhone. This is obviously not for shipping applications, but I think you’re going to want to know how to do this when you’re debugging your app.
Text Processing with Nu
Nu’s not a bad little language for processing text. The key is to take advantage of the many features of the Foundation classes.
Here’s a small example that might help you the next time that you’re playing Scrabble.
A Nu version of HelloWorldClassic
The first iPhone app in Apple’s sample code is a simple program called HelloWorldClassic. That’s also the first iPhone app to be rewritten in Nu, and I’m guessing that means it’s the first app written in any interpreted scripting language that runs on the new official iPhone SDK.
Want to help me test it?
