Field of Dreams, originally uploaded by Lucien W. Dupont.

The Beavers game in Portland for the 4th. Fireworks after.

Wynton Marsalis tonight, originally uploaded by Lucien W. Dupont.

We might be too close, we will see. Or is there too close for jazz?

The Internet is for porn, originally uploaded by Lucien W. Dupont.

Enough said - I’ve been looking forward to this show for a while.

First and most importantly, the Cocoa programmer’s focus is always the end result for the user, not the academic sophistication of the code.

(Via Theobroma Cacao.)

Dinner for a Jedi., originally uploaded by Lucien W. Dupont.

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At Janet’s graduation dinner, originally uploaded by Lucien W. Dupont.

Buca di Beppo in San Diego.

Ignite Portland 3 begins, originally uploaded by Lucien W. Dupont.

Raven intros.

Some Ignite Portland Sponsors, originally uploaded by Lucien W. Dupont.

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We’ll meet at the Lucky Labrador Brew Pub (915 SE Hawthorne Blvd) at 6pm, and hang out and chat about WWDC - bring your questions and those of us who went will answer what we can.

I’m planning on eating dinner there, so you are welcome to join.

If you haven’t been to a meeting before, nows a good time to come out and meet folks in a relaxed setting.

Update: Thank you all for the great conversation, it’s great to have such supportive friends in Portland. I’m not sure what we are doing next month, or the location.

BNL at the party!!!!, originally uploaded by Lucien W. Dupont.

Ahhhhhhh!!!!

BNL, originally uploaded by Lucien W. Dupont.

They are rocking!!!!

Inside the keynote., originally uploaded by Lucien W. Dupont.

Awaiting the start.

WWDC Keynote line, originally uploaded by Lucien W. Dupont.

The long wait begins.

My reasoning was the following:

• 10.5 hasn’t been out long enough for a really wide user adaption.
• Users won’t want to pay another $120ish for a new OS so soon.
• Apple doesn’t have enough engineers to add enough new features to an OS to be a big enough upgrade.

Then John Gruber posted a few interesting comments - first to an article about Snow Leopard being ‘pure Cocoa‘. This makes complete sense to me - see the QTKit as an example of the start of that. Having a consistent Cocoa API for everything is a win for newer developers who don’t know (or care) about Carbon.

Gruber also points to TUAW’s post on the subject, in which they comment that it’s a stability and performance release, and even perhaps a grand unifying OS release (Touch/Macintosh/Apple TV).

This unifying theory more than anything makes the most sense to me. Apple, like every Mac programming company these days, is hurting for good people. When they try and hire folks, it’s often a hard sell to get someone to move to the bay area given it’s high cost of living. So, why not consolidate the code, and have one repository containing all three from which you can build off of, with a shared base of source. It would alleviate having to build three large teams, or even three medium teams. One core OS team, and then three smaller teams to do the respective UI and platform specific frameworks.

What would this allow them to provide? Well, we’ve seen two - AppKit and UIKit. How about a third? AppleTVKit? I wonder if one of the unannounced sessions is one on the programming environment for the next release of the Apple TV ‘operating system’? I wonder if Apple will have a built in application store? It would be a fantastic opportunity for Apple to pull ahead in the set top box arena. Netflix Player anyone?

Here’s hoping….

(Via Downshift.)

Justin of Second Gear posts a great article on how to have a healthy WWDC. Wise words if you are going.

Twenty years from now you will be more disappointed by the things that you didn’t do than by the ones you did do. So throw off the bowlines. Sail away from the safe harbor. Catch the trade winds in your sails. Explore. Dream. Discover. - Mark Twain

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 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

Update: Thank you for the very cool demos and good discussion - and the hangout time afterwards! I hope to post code later on in the month.

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, originally uploaded by Lucien W. Dupont.

I am really looking forward to this movie!!!

(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.

Interview with Extensis software engineer, Lucien Dupont

 

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, 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, originally uploaded by Lucien W. Dupont.

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

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, originally uploaded by Lucien W. Dupont.

Enjoying the sun.

John sent me his presentation, feel free to download it and play with his examples.

Next month I’ll be doing a talk on NSOperation and NSOperationQueue, as it’s something I need to learn about for my personal programming project I’m currently working on. March 12 at 6pm, mark your calendars.

(Via Dan Wood: The Eponymous Weblog.)

Some great advice from Dan Wood on what he would change if he went back in time to when he started his mac indie company.

Feel free to arrive anytime after 5:30pm, the downstairs doors tend to get locked at 6pm. We’ll start off at 6pm with a round of Q&A, as that worked really well last time, and start the hands on talk at around 6:30pm. Food will be provided.

Location details:
Extensis Portland - 1800 SW 1st Ave, Portland, OR - Suite 500

(Via Shirt Pocket Watch.)

It’s been a long time coming, but I’d rather have it work 100% than released 3 months ago.

Update: It shipped, and it works great.

(Of which a friend is one).

Well done John Moltz. I’ll miss your humor and wit.

More favorite moments at Brent Simmons weblog.

Backyard 2, originally uploaded by Lucien W. Dupont.

Some iPhone shots by Jennifer of the snow we got last night.. it was fun driving down the hill in the LR2 and the snowtires, it reminded me of living in Canada..

I’m most impressed with the location feature in Maps. We live out on the edge of Beaverton at the urban growth boundary, so my AT&T coverage here is, well, spotty at best.

When I have WiFi turned off, here’s what I see:

When I turn on WiFi, you’ll see that my location gets dramatically more defined. Which means that the WiFi mapping that is being used is really accurate:

Yes, my home is right in the center of that circle. I’m hoping tomorrow when I suck it up and go to work that it will be as accurate as it is at home.

The other announcements didn’t particularly interest me enough to pull out a credit card to pre order anything. The MacBook Air looks cool, I look forward to checking it out at the local Apple store.

I still don’t get the Apple TV. Someone please explain to me what I’m missing? Is it because I have a TiVo Series 3?

Time Capsule has the most potential “buy now” for me. I have a backup hard drive that I use with SuperDuper! and it would be nice to have a Time Machine backup as well. I am going to wait to read some reviews though, as I’m worried about the speed of the hard drive over the network. I have an Airport Extreme base station and performance was very poor for heavy disk use. Hopefully someone at Macworld will figure out how the internal ’server grade’ hard drive is connected.

Update: And I was wrong…  

Macworld 2008 - It’s all coming together now

(Via The Extensis Blog)

Ford Escape Hybrid Plug In, originally uploaded by carscomeditor.

I’m really hoping these pictures mean that Ford is going to introduce plug in hybrid on Sunday at the Detroit auto show. Some leadership by North American auto companies would be a good thing.

Update: Yes, I was too excited in my cold state. These are pictures of the Escape that is being tested in California. Darn it anyway. 

 I am looking forward to it - having owned a high-def Sony camcorder for a good 2 years, it will be nice to create some discs that show off the quality of the video.  

Our schedule is going to be this:

- bring your questions on anything Cocoa, hopefully the brainpowers in the room will be able to shed some light on it

- we’ll giggle like schoolgirls about what Steve announced, and see if we can afford to charge one to our well-used-over-Christmas credit card. (subnotebook with blu-ray anyone?)

More info is here:http://www.cocoaheads.org/us/PortlandOregon/index.html

My brother and I inside Andretti Winery.