Talks

This page is where you will find slides and notes from talks presented at CocoaHeads Sydney. Note that it is not yet complete.

2010

Presented by Mark Aufflick. Mark introduces a class he wrote to reduce the pain of simple static UITableViews.

Slides are available on mark.aufflick.com/talks/mgatableview

Presented by Cameron Barrie. Cam gives a great refresher on the techniques, rules and conventions for Cocoa memory management.

Slides are available on slideshare.net/whalec1/ios-memory-management-basis

2009

Presented by Chris Suter. An introduction to Blocks in C and Objective-C with some gotcha’s to look out for.

Keynote slides can be downloaded in this zip file.

Presented by Alan Rogers. This presentation is an introduction to the Cappuccino web framework and its language, Objective-J. It is essentially a port of Cocoa to an Objective-C syntax on top of Javascript. It works way better than it sounds!

Keynote slides can be downloaded in this zip file.

Presented by Mark Aufflick. It gives an introduction to Martin Kahr’s Apple Remote framework for adding IR remote access capabilities to your app.

Slides and updated notes are available at http://mark.aufflick.com/talks/apple-ir-remote

Presented by André Pang at the first Sydney CocoaHeads (not ignoring the previous meetings ;) based on his earlier Mac OSX Linguistics talk, about interesting parts of the Objective-C programming language (from a programming language point of view).

Topics include the underlying implementation of the object model and message-sending and higher-order messaging shenanigans.

Slides are available at http://algorithm.com.au/talks/