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CocoaHeads Portland - Core Animation Demos

Tonight CocoaHeads Portland meets at Extensis in downtown Portland.

The topic is Core Animation, folks will be showing little examples that they’ve written, and what they learned about Core Animation.

5:30 pm - snack and chatting before we start
6:00 pm - Q&A Session (bring your Cocoa questions)
6:30 ish - Show and talk about Core Animation
7:30 ish - finished, hang out time

Feel free to arrive at 5:30 pm for some snacks and chatting before we start up. If you arrive late (past 6pm), you will need to call my cell phone at 503-819-8904 and we will send someone down to let you in.

Apologies for the late details - join our Google Groups list to get the very latest:

http://groups.google.com/group/pdx-cocoaheads

Extensis Portland (Google Map Link) - 1800 SW 1st Ave, Portland, OR - Suite 500

Why repealing the gas tax for the summer is bad

Please, go and read this. John McCain and Hillary Clinton don’t understand basic economics.

My pocketbook is hurting too.. but maybe it will force us to drive less, purchase far more efficient and smaller vehicles, and eventually switch to hydrogen or plug in vehicles like the Chevy Volt.

Wall•E

 

Wall•E, originally uploaded by Lucien W. Dupont.

I am really looking forward to this movie!!!

Web 2.0 Typography

Web 2.0 Typography

(Via Manage This.)

Jim posts a pretty cool article about the Web 2.0 Conference going on now in San Francisco, and the designs of the free stuff. Well worth clicking through to read.

A short video of me at Extensis

Click through and go watch it. Yes I do need to work out more.

Interview with Extensis software engineer, Lucien Dupont

CocoaHeads Portland April - NSOperation and NSOperationQueue

This Wednesday CocoaHeads Portland will meet at 6pm at Extensis in downtown Portland.

I’ll be giving a small presentation on NSOperation and NSOperationQueue, two really useful classes that are available in Leopard for doing background operations. They are particularly important in todays’ day and age of multi-core Macintoshes, and useful for doing background processing in a nice manner on an iPhone or iPod touch.

5:30 pm - snack and chatting before we start
6:00 pm - Q&A Session (bring your Cocoa questions)
6:30 ish - Presentation on NSOperation and NSOperationQueue
7:30 ish - finished, hang out time, show cool things time, show iPhone apps??

Feel free to arrive at 5:30 pm for some snacks and chatting before we start up.

Extensis Portland (Google Map Link) - 1800 SW 1st Ave, Portland, OR - Suite 500

The Newton Team Way Back When

The Newton Team Way Back When, originally uploaded by Lucien W. Dupont.

Man.. this brings back a flood of really good memories of my time at Apple, and all the friends I still have from way back when. Click through to see a few notes.

Tonight’s Fun

Tonight’s Fun, originally uploaded by Lucien W. Dupont.

Cirque De Soleil Corteo tonight. And yes, it’s raining… Welcome to
Portland canadian friends.

iPhone Development - CocoaHeads Portland, March 11th, 08

Seems like all my blog posts these days are related to CocoaHeads Portland. Perhaps that’s not so bad… some day I will be moving my development posts to a different weblog, and make this one more personal..

Until then, tomorrow, Wednesday, March 12th at 6pm is CocoaHeads Portland. And we’re going to talk about the iPhone SDK. I’ll probably initiate the discussion, by giving an overview of the sdk. But I encourage the attenders to bring questions and answers, and if they want their laptop to show something cool!

Feel free to arrive anytime after 5:30pm, the downstairs doors tend to get locked at 6pm. Food will be provided.

Location details:
Extensis Portland (Google Map Link) - 1800 SW 1st Ave, Portland, OR - Suite 500

Palm Trees in Poipu

Palm Trees in Poipu, originally uploaded by Lucien W. Dupont.

Enjoying the sun.