Spilling the Beans
September 2nd, 2010
Hi there fellow Cocoa friends!
After the summer break we will resume our cozy weekly meetings at Café Retro in Knabrostræde 26, 1210 København K.
First NSCoder Night will be at 7:00 pm this Wednesday, September 8th,
Everyone interested in Cocoa development is welcome.
We will have to decide on a new weekday for future nights. We will meet either Wednesday or Thursday evenings at 7:00 pm. If you have a strong preference for a particular day, please use this poll to vote for the day you prefer:
(The result of the poll will not be decisive, but will be taken into consideration)
While Aron is away on his Asian tour I will be hosting the events and try to keep you posted via this website. I will also announce changes to the regular NSCoder Night schedule on my Twitter account @Verlet.
See you soon at NSCoder Night!
September 1st, 2010
The recent ‘net-neutrality’ deal between Google and Verizon shows Google’s true colours, that are neither blue, red, yellow, or green.
They have long argued that the more users there are on the internet, the more money they would make, but Facebook broke their business, for better or worse, people are now spending most of their time on Facebook, where Google’s ads are not shown. Google now has a hard time sticking to their own words, as Facebook gulps a large poriton of their revenue.
Google who recently left China for reasons of lack of net-neutrality, is now lobbying for allowing ISP’s to regulate long-range wireless internet connections.
There are two problems with this, the first is, that laws and regulations are hard to change once they are set in place, 10 years from now the majority of internet connections will be based on mobile broad-band, which means the majority of consumers internet access will be regulated.
The other problem is that Google trying to acquire the old and abandoned analogue UHF TV spectre, to provide USA nation-wide free WiFi, which they can regulate with their newly proposed rules. Most ISP’s cannot compete with free, so many will close down, and most consumers will choose Google’s free option. Google will control not only the content of the Internet, but also it’s connections, I call that ‘Evil’.
July 28th, 2010
If you are interested in following me on my travel, you can head to my tumblr blog at aronallen.com
July 28th, 2010
Martin agreed to be the NSCoder Night host while I am away, he will be posting the weekly invites to NSCoder Night and CocoaHeads events, be nice to him!
July 28th, 2010
I got my departure date, and it is not realistic for me to host CCDC this year, I apologize if you were looking forward to it.
I would still love to assist anyone who want’s to pull the event off, I can get you connected with the right people, so you can book a venue, find sponsors, etc.
July 14th, 2010
Some of you might have been wondering why there has been no NSCoder Night invites lately, well it is because it is closed for the summer, just like our favourite Café.
We will be back again in August.
June 26th, 2010
Some of may have heard, but now it is 100% certain, from September to February I will be in Hong Kong and India as a volunteer for Areopagos.
I will be involved in social-work, and through my work learn about Asian culture, spirituality, and religion.
I am looking forward to seeing the world from a totally new perspective, and I hope I will learn much on my trip, about people, Asia, culture and God.
Well I am still doing all I can to get it up and running, and I hope I can have a date soon, so I can host the event before my departure, for this I need strong support from the community, keep your weekends in late August and early September open, I will announce a date, as soon as possible.
Like last year CCDC will have a low entry-ticket, and I hope to get just as terrific speakers.
This year I will hand out the Copenhagen Cocoa Award, to the Scandinavia-based group/individual who since last year, has made a lot of cool contributions to the iOS platform.
I am accepting nominations from now, and you are more than welcome to nominate yourself, all nominations should be sent to: nominations@copenhagencocoa.com.
I hope I can find an appropriate steward to host NSCoder Night while I am away, this person will have accesses to the blog, and will be posting event details.
June 22nd, 2010
Remember NSCoder Night this evening (22nd of June) 19:00, we meet at Café Retro, Knabrostræde 26.
Bring your Mac and come code with friends.
June 17th, 2010
One of the greatest UI innovations on the iPhone software keyobard, is the dedicated language key.
Never before has it been so easy to change keyboard layout and dictionary.
It makes me wonder where the dedicated language key is on normal PC’s, it would be so convenient to toggle languages with a dedicated hardware button.
Being bi-langual I am growing tired of OS X, red lines, it does not detect language very well, and even when you change the dictionary, and your word is spelt correctly, it will only check the word again if you click it.
Another annoyance is iWorks unorthodox way of handling spell checking, it is tied to the specific style of the paragraph, this may be a great idea in documents containing more than one language, but most documents contain exactly one language, and therefor the default should be the change the dictionary document wide.
Would it be possible to override the functionality of Caps Lock, and instead use it as a dedicated language key, coupled with a nice UI overlay? It could be most useful.
June 15th, 2010
Remember NSCoder Night this evening (15th of June) 19:00, we meet at Café Retro, Knabrostræde 26.
Bring your Mac and come code with friends.