Thanks to all who showed up last night at Panic HQ in the Pearl, I think that was the biggest attendance yet. My thanks to Panic for hosting.

I gave short presentation on what’s new in Cocoa, highlighting what excites me about Cocoa in Leopard. We had a lot of good discussion during the presentation, which lends itself really well to the location and amount of folks there.

I followed up my small presentation with some demos of Leopard only applications, including a new application under development by Fraser Speirs, the author of FlickrExport for iPhoto and Aperture.

The Panic folks finished the meeting by showing us a new Leopard only application – which in typical Panic fashion is beautiful, full of the little touches that one comes to expect from Panic, and really from any Mac program.

Our next meeting will be December 12th, and we’re going to meet at a pub/bar for food and drink and chat. Stay tuned for a location.

It’s that time again for CocoaHeads Portland – this Wednesday at 6pm at Extensis. Here’s the url to map, we’re on the 5th floor.

Once again we’ll be providing some food, and the doors tend to get locked by 6pm, so try to arrive before then. If you arrive later and the doors are locked, give me a call at 503-819-8904.

Brian Doyel is going to do a small q & a presentation on an application he’s recently written, in his words “… an application I wrote for a client recently. It has a fairly interesting UI that is all Cocoa but doesn’t look like it and it has at least one non-trivial custom control”.

It should be a very interesting talk, I hope you can make it.

Tomorrow we’ll have the September meeting of CocoaHeads Portland.

It’s at Extensis (url to map, we’re on the 5th floor).

Food will be provided, and please arrive before 6pm because the doors are locked.

We’ll start off with some food and chit chat, and give a chance for folks to ask any questions. Bring them all, easy and hard, we’ll see if we can get them answered. If you have something you want to show, feel free to bring that as well.

The main attraction this month is a presentation by myself and my wife Jennifer Crumrine who attended the C4[1] independent developer conference in Chicago last month. We meet a lot of pretty cool people, and heard some great presentations on Mac development.

PS: I also encourage you to join our Google Group to keep up to date with meeting announcements: http://groups.google.com/group/pdx-cocoaheads