[Sydney] CocoaHeads meetup next Thursday - March 3rd

[Mark Aufflick]

CocoaHeads Sydney 2011 March is Thursday the 3rd, 6:30 pm. Comes quickly after short February!

We will be meeting again at the same KeyOptions office as last month - 202 at 250 Pitt St in the city. The door tothe lift well is locked at that time of night, so people will need to call up for access. Call 9269 9125 or 0438 700 647and someone will come down to let you in.

Google maps link: http://bit.ly/e1eU5A

NineMSN is supplying the beer this month - thanks to KeyOptions and Cameron Barrie for supplying last month's stash.

Tom from BareFeetWare will give a second talk in his series. Last month he laid the basics on how to build a table view driven app and cross reference the Cocoa documentation for customisation. This month he will cover customising table views with different styles, backgrounds, adding your own subviews and buttons, mimicking multiple columns and horizontal scrolling and using shading to give a 3D look.

Alan Rogers will give a lightning talk about writing Oscar Award winning software (and avoiding the obstacle course at the awards night)!

If anyone else would like to give a lightning/short talk please let me know.

See you all there!

Mark.

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[Glen Trudgett]

For a potential topic I would be interested in a talk on Unit Testing and maybe best practices around this!? For the noob?!

Looking forward to the night.

Cheers,

Glen

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[Cameron Barrie]

I'm sure I could do something on that. I won't be able too till the following month though, so if anyone else wants to this month, please feel free.

-Cam

[Mark Aufflick]

David Reidy has also been threatening to do a talk on automated UI testing or something like that. David is that a next month or a few months a way sort of thing?!

Mark.
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[Marcus Schappi]

Hey Guys, 

I'm Marcus from Key Options. We're currently looking for more Cocoa / Rails Devs in our rapidly expanding business. 

If you've been looking for a change have a chat to one of us ( http://keyoptions.com/about ) next Thursday.

Cheers, 

Marcus

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Marcus Schappi

Key Options Development Pty Ltd

202/250 Pitt Street,

Sydney NSW 2000

02 9269 9125

www.keyoptions.com

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COMPANY OVERVIEW

We’re a mobile development house that specialises in iOS projects. There are 10 people in our team, consisting of cocoa developers, front enders, designers, producers and content people. Our parent company has been around for a while (20 years now) and we have a great group of customers. All of our clients are large consumer brands and government departments across Australia, so we’ve got quite a bit of experience at making iOS Apps that work well and are easy to use. You can get a better idea of the stuff we do by having a poke around our portfolio page - http://keyoptions.com/portfolio

We have a very flexible working environment with most of our developers working at least 1 day at home per week. Our team are developer rockstars ( http://keyoptions.com/about ) who have built some of the best apps in Australia. Chat with us over a beer next Thursday to find out more.

JOB DESCRIPTION

* Our business is expanding and we are searching for iPhone Engineers. Were looking for iOS Developer who are gainfully employed looking for change and flexibility! We pride ourselves on not just making great products, but writing clean, professional code.

* You'll gain tons of experience in a fast-paced environment, with a degree of ownership thats largely impossible at bigger companies.

RESPONSIBILITIES

* Work within our weekly process, loosely based on Scrum methodology, which includes setting goals, working towards completing them, keeping the team apprised of your progress, and showing off what you've accomplished at weeks end.

* Build features in our iOS Apps. This could include things to do with Geo-Spatial Apps, Mobile Device Management, bar codes, iPhone hardware APIs, data-base & API integration and tying our client code to critical server-side functionality, or even building socially connected apps that take full advantage of the rich iPhone SDK API.

* Interact daily with the systems that used in professional software development: bug tracking, source control, etc.

REQUIREMENTS

* Proven experience developing great looking iOS apps.

* Demonstrated fluency in a compiled language.

* Exposure to Objective-C, ideally through some commercial experience (Mac OS X and/or iPhone), a university course, or independent iPhone application development.

* Excited about working in a fast-moving, high-profile professional software development start-up. You'll be writing code that will ship within weeks to literally millions of people.

NICE TO HAVE

* Bachelors Degree in Computer Science or equivalent experience. (Come-on, show us that you can complete something!)

HOW TO APPLY

* Play with one of our apps. No seriously, all our apps are free so download a copy and give them a go (links are at http://keyoptions.com/portfolio). We will talk to you about the experience as part of the interview process.

* Write a cover letter. Applications without cover letters will not be considered.

As always if you have any questions or queries what so ever, please don't hesitate to contact me on 0488 108 307 or on mar...@keyoptions.com.au

Cheers

Marcus

[David Reidy]

Hi Mark, All,

I can do next Thursday if you like, or the meeting in April is fine too. The presentation will be medium length so perhaps with Tom and Alan already slotted in, April would be better, just let me know.

David.

uTeach

A good reason to get chalk dust on your iPhone.

[Sadat Rahman]

> On 24/02/2011, at 18:21, Mark Aufflick wrote:
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>> David Reidy has also been threatening to do a talk on automated UI testing or something like that. David is that a next month or a few months a way sort of thing?!

Does the talk involve Frank (https://github.com/moredip/Frank) by any chance? Would also be interested to know of any other awesome UI testing frameworks for iOS (similar or better than Frank).

[Stewart Gleadow]

I'm definitely interested in hearing about other automated testing options. I'm down in Melbourne so I wont be able to make it to the talk, so slides/video/audio would be awesome.

cheers,
Stew

[Matthew Willis]

Did anyone manage to get Tom's talk on video from last month?

I would like to check it out prior to coming along this month :-)

- Matt

[Glen Trudgett]

Looks like I won't be able to escape to get to tonight's meeting. Will we be able to get some video of the presentations?

Have fun!

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[Luke Tupper]

Don't you know there is a trap door behind the drummer for just this type of occasion!