Copenhagen Cocoa

The EcoRide team has put together a nice writeup regarding their application, check it out here

Philip Bruce was one of the great teachers at ccdc. He covered two subjects in his presentations including a basic introduction to the iPhone SDK and a session introducing the Interface Builder.

The presentations and the Xcode projects can be downloaded here.

Thanks Philip for sharing your knowledge.

Jakob did an amazing job at ccdc, teaching us all about Table Views, and Core Animation. I want to than Jakob for his great sessions.
Jakob has been so kind to provide us with his slides in pdf format, I hope you find them useful.

Core Animation

Table Views

At ccdc four participants decided to make a Windmill application, to promote green energy. The team consisted of Vishal(Code), Mads(Code), Willi(Code), and me, Aron (Graphics).

The goal was to make a mini-game, where the main objective would be spinning a windmill, and various ways of spinning the windmill were discussed, including fetching the actual wind-direction and holding your compass-enabled device according to it.
Despite the great ideas, a limited time-frame forced us to only implement two interaction methods – the first was blowing into the microphone, and the second was flicking the windmill around with touch interaction.

Below is a video of the application running in the simulator.

Berg has written a fine article in Danish about the whole weekend experience, check it out at MacBay!

I was just by Reden Copenhagen to hand over all the profit from the conference. I want to thank everyone who attended the conference for contributing to this act of charity.
Below is the official photo of the gift and reciever, I apologize the poor image quality.

Edit:I will add the photo later today, there seems to be a problem with the iPhones wordpress client.

Remeber NSCoder Night this evening (27th of October 2009) 19:00 at Café Retro, Knabrostræde 26, Copenhagen. Bring your Mac and come code with friends, please leave a comment below if you are attending.

Copenhagen Cocoa has a very long url, so I decided to find a way to spare you all some typing. Apparently Cocos Islands has it’s very own tld, and it is called .cc, so I purchased cph.cc.

cph.cc now redirects, at least on my name-server, to the longer and more describing domain name copenhagencocoa.com, I hope to save you all from some unneeded future typing, and possibly extend the lifetime of your keyboards*.

*(With the new domain the keys “c”, “p”, “h” and “.” are stressed just as much as the old, so you may not see extended lifetime on those specific keys)

I want to thank everyone who participated ccdc for co-creating a fabulous weekend, where artists, hobbyists and programmers developed some amazing applications. Personally I was surprised by the quality level, and every team achieved outstanding results, all within a very short timeframe.

I want to thank all our sponsors who made this event a success. The sponsors listed, in no particular order: http://cocoastuff.com/ http://kea.dk/ http://nabz.dk/ http://comprendo.dk/ http://oredev.org/ http://unity3d.com/ http://mocsystems.dk/ http://www.apress.com/

I want to thank MealsOnWheeels for delicious food and great service.

I want to thank Joachim Bondo, Jakob Møller, Jakob Dam Jensen, and Philip Bruce, for insightful lectures, and all the effort they put into their teachings.

I want to thank Simon Møller, Joachim Bondo, and Nikolaj Sonne, for their jury participation, and their just verdict.

Lastly I want to thank Anka, the cleaning-lady, for her help and her midnight support when the alarm went off, and the guards almost threw us out.

My heart goes to Fredrik Olsson, and Jonathan Bunde-Pedersen, that for unfortunate reasons were unable to attend the event and host their intended lectures.

The winning application was EcoTrip, a “car pooling made easy ” application, the follow-ups were EcoDriver, and Windmill.

Throughout the week I will aggregate developer diaries from the event and post them here on the blog, so stay tuned for more information regarding the cool applications we developed.

iGuy and Mark Wubben filmed the App presentations, I will make sure to link to their videos as soon as they hit the internet. We have a flickr pool as well, so if you took any photos during the event, share them there.

We had a surplus of 1760,00 kr., the money will be given to Reden København, a charity organization helping prostitutes and trafficked women.

I hope to see a ccdc x (x being the roman numeral for 10) sometime next fall, until then attend NSCoder Night and CocoaHeads for all your social-developer-needs.

That was it, I hope to see you all at NSCoder Night this Tuesday.

CCDC is almost over, the teams are at the moment finishing their applications, and getting them ready for the presentations at 14:00, if you are in the area you are welcome to attend as audience, the address is Lygten 16 Copenhagen. There will be delicious brunch at 12:00, so if come by a bit earlier you get free food.

If you have taken any photos at CCDC please tag them with “ccdc2009″, and upload them to our Flickr pool. The official tweet hash tag is #CCDC, use this tag for anything related to the event.