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[Brent Simmons]

We're at 19 members. You may begin writing.

-Brent

[millenomi]

On Sat, Sep 4, 2010 at 9:04 PM, Brent Simmons <br...@ranchero.com> wrote:
> We're at 19 members. You may begin writing.

Okay. (FIRST!) (ER, SECOND!)

Hi, I'm Emanuele "∞" Vulcano. I make Afloat (Mac) and Mover (iOS). I
used to make code injection frameworks, then I decided it was too much
of a hassle and switched back to SIMBL. I would really, really love to
get I/O code right someday (on that note, anyone has reliable,
high-performance code that uses NSStream o'er sockets?).

[Luke Redpath]

Hi, I'm Luke Redpath and I'm a Ruby and iOS developer from London,
UK.

I'vebeen working with iOS since the original SDK was released. I
publish and contribute to number of open source projects, which are on
my Github profile, github.com/lukeredpath.

I never really followed the cocoa-dev list but I'm definitely
interested in more advanced and interesting Cocoa topics, particularly
in the areas of testing and software architecture.

Cheers
Luke

www.lukeredpath.co.uk

[Luke Redpath]

Reading that back, it appears I also suck at typing on my iPad.

[Mike Ash]

On Sep 4, 3:04 pm, Brent Simmons <br...@ranchero.com> wrote:
> We're at 19 members. You may begin writing.

Seeing as how it was my whining that prompted this list to be created
in the first place, I may not need to introduce myself. But, what the
heck.

I've been developing on Apple platforms for a bit over 20 years,
starting off with BASIC, then Pascal, then C, then C++, now ObjC and
Cocoa. I've been getting paid for it for not quite a decade.

My programming interests are pretty varied, but major ones relevant to
this list include crazy low-level hackery, pushing Objective-C beyond
what it should be able to do, performance, multithreading, debugging,
and POSIX-level programming.

I have some public source code related to these things here:

http://github.com/mikeash

I also maintain a blog on Mac programming that some of you may already
be familiar with:

http://www.mikeash.com/pyblog/

I really hope that we can get something good going here. A cocoa-dev
without the silly politics, lame restrictions, and thoughtless
questions and answers would be fantastic.

Mike

[Michael]

Well if everybody else is doing it.. ;-)

I'm Michael - I've worked with Cocoa on the Mac for four or five years
casually, more seriously in the last three years after devoting more
time to iOS. I'm an indie developer spending a few years writing code
and building the software business from a motorhome (she's called
Nettle!), travelling Europe as we go.

I've never really followed cocoa-dev either, but I'd like to get more
involved with the community. Good bunch of people, so I've found so
far, and I'm looking forward to meeting more of you.


atastypixel.com/blog
michael.tyson.id.au

[Tyler Hall]

Howdy, I'm Tyler, formerly of San Francisco but now in Nashville. Been
doing the Cocoa thing for about five years now. I'm slowly working my
way towards Indie independence (and all the hassles that entails) via:

http://clickontyler.com

Of interest to some of you might be my open source project Shine -
it's a web dashboard that handles all of the administrative tasks that
go along with running a small Mac software business:

http://github.com/tylerhall/Shine

Tyler

[Hunter Hillegas]

Great to have a new list to kibitz on/with/at.

I'm Hunter of Santa Barbara, CA. Primarily working on iOS (since the SDK intro) and some WebObjects programming before that with some Ruby on Rails along the way too. A little Cocoa - I recently released a tool called iOS Beta Builder designed to make distributing iOS ad-hoc IPAs a little easier.

http://www.hanchorllc.com/2010/08/24/introducing-ios-beta-builder/

Cheers,
Hunter

[Michael Tyson]

Shine looks great, Tyler! Thanks for making it available - on the happy day that I get serious about selling Mac software, I suspect I may be feeling pretty grateful.

[Rod]

I'm Rod in Sandy, UT. I have my own company at http://www.infinitenil.com
and sell iOS apps and Mac apps as well as contracting for those
platforms. I also do a little Ruby on Rails.

[Itai Ferber]

Hi, I'm Itai, and I'm a junior Cocoa developer living in New York.

I've been programming for a few years now (first in C++, then
Objective-C), but I haven't really completed any major projects, or
done anything you've heard of.
Nevertheless, I spend nearly all my spare time programming and honing
my skills (which, to be honest, need honing), and I've recently become
active on Stack Overflow.
I've never followed a Cocoa mailing list before, so this should be
interesting.

If you're looking for me, you can find me on www.itaiferber.com, or at
Stack Overflow (http://stackoverflow.com/users/169394/itaiferber).
Looking forward to this!

Itai

[Hjalti Jakobsson]

Great to see so many awesome developers here. Since everyone is
introducing themselves I might as well do the same.

My name is Hjalti and I've been developing for the mac since around
2006. I've also done a few iPhone games for the company I work for.

I've not released as much open source code as many of you so my github
page isn't that interesting. However I've held a local Cocoa course
where I live (Reykjavik, Iceland) and a few lectures on iPhone
development.

Looking forward to learning more stuff and hopefully helping out as
well.

Cheers!
- Hjalti

[Dave DeLong]

I'm Dave DeLong, also in Utah. I work for Mozy [1] on the Mozy for Mac app. I also do iPhone development on the side, and I am totally addicted to StackOverflow's "objective-c" and "cocoa" tags [2].

In my copious amounts of free time (ha!) I write utility code that I post on github [3], such as:
- CHLayoutManager: NSView layouting via constraints, like a CALayoutManager
- StackKit: a framework for interacting with the StackOverflow API, heavily modeled after CoreData [4]

Cheers,

Dave

[1]: http://mozy.com
[2]: http://stackoverflow.com/users/115730
[3]: http://github.com/davedelong
[4]: http://stackkit.com

[Ben Gottlieb]

Hello all. I'm Ben Gottlieb, owner of Stand Alone, Inc. [http://standalone.com], based in Chicago. I've been doing Apple-based development since back in the days of Newton. I'm a frequent Stack Overflow [http://stackoverflow.com/users/6694/ben-gottlieb] contributor, and also a contributor to the Twitter+OAuth open source project for iOS [http://github.com/bengottlieb/Twitter-OAuth-iPhone].

Glad we've got this resource, thanks guys!

B

Ben Gottlieb iM
b...@standalone.com

[Remy Demarest]

Hi, I'm Remy "Psy" Demarest, I'm a french expatriated to Canada where
I work from a small company as a Cocoa developer (Mac, iOS...).
I've been using macs for a long time but only really getting serious
about developing 3 or 4 years ago, however my curiosity, learning-
thirst and recent experiences helped me learn fast.
I'm an active IRC helper and I'd like to get more involve in the
community.

I'm a big fan of crazy experiences and tests, some of them are
available on my github account: http://github.com/PsychoH13

[Mike Stewart]

For those that haven't yet set a filter on the thread, I'm Mike, and I'm a recovering Windows developer. I even still live in Redmond, a left-over from my time at Microsoft. Though I've been writing code for money forever, I'm relatively new to Cocoa. Almost two years ago I hackintoshed my MSI Wind (with its overpowering 1.6Ghz Atom processor), downloaded the iPhone SDK and had at it.

After publishing two apps to the app store, I wondered, "what's it like to write a Mac OS app?" How to start? Write a "hello world"? Simple contact database from Core Data examples? No, no, no, that's *way* too easy. Let's start by writing a commercial app that I can try and sell for money. Yeah, that has "success" written all over it. A year of nights and weekends later, TaskSurfer (http://www.frostydogs.com/tasksurfer) is in limited beta, and a few weeks out from initial release.

I still don't know what I'm doing, so don't look for great wisdom from me. Certainly expect me to pop my head up with question from time to time (I'm looking at you, NSPredicateEditorRowTemplate).

Mike Stewart

[Dave DeLong]

Ah, she's a finicky beast. I spent a good couple weeks figuring out how NSPredicateEditor and the row templates work.

I look forward to your questions. :)

Dave

[tysontune]

Hi guys,
My name is Tyson Tune and i'm an iOS developer in Nashville where I
work for a company called Mercury Intermedia. We do mainly iPhone and
iPad apps in the news category. I've been a developer for 7years or
so, working primarily in, ugh, Flash until a couple of years ago.

I've spent time looking for help on cocoa-dev, but always found the
list kind of off-putting. In any case I want to be more involved in
the community and I'm really glad this group has popped up.

[Kevin Avila]

my name is kevin. I run #macdev/#iphonedev on freenode. I like C.

[Guy English]

My name is Guy. I like Kevin.

[Timothy Wood]

My name is Tim. I like lurking… oh dammit.

-tim

[Eimantas]

Hi

My name is Eimantas and I'm from Vilnius/Lithuania. I've been longtime
web developer (Ruby/Rails) and now somewhat about a year I'm learning
Objective C and Cocoa. My current interest lies in Mac OS X core OS
possibilities and Cocoa frameworks. I haven't been much of a poster in
any other mailing lists, but let's hope this time it will be different
(tm)

// E.

[Mason]

Hi, I'm Mason and I write Dash Board for Newton. (Oh, and I also do
some Mac development from time to time.)

Happy to see this list! Although still subscribed to cocoa-dev,I
haven't actually read it regularly for some years, and that's probably
because I agree with Mike that it has developed ever-worsening
cultural/political/controlfreakalogical problems...

This year I'm mostly doing enterprise development in Objective-J/
Cappuccino, and a lot of that work involves porting existing Mac Obj-C
code over to Obj-J. In many cases this is a fantastically easy and
gratifying process for a Mac programmer temporarily doing web app
development. I know a lot of Mac shops are turning to Cappuccino when
they need, say, a web UI component or a web edition of their cocoa
app, so I hope the unboundedness of this list might also accommodate
cap discussion when it comes up in our context. (Cap has it's own list
for general discussion though: http://groups.google.com/group/objectivej)

Cheers!

[Jack Nutting]

I'm Jack, and I've been doing Cocoa programming since the days of
NeXTStep 3.2, long before it was called Cocoa. Most of that has been
apps for internal use at various companies, or niche products that few
people will have heard of. these days i'm building iPhone/iPad apps
for a small Swedish bank (I'm an American, but have been living in
Sweden for years), putting out the occasional iPhone and Mac software
of my own (http://rebisoft.com), using Rails for most of my backend
needs, and writing books on Cocoa and iPhone/iPad development.

As for the cocoa-dev list, I was a member for years until the signal/
noise ratio got really low. Signed up again last year, and I think the
s/n is better than a few years ago, but the moderation is somewhat
more bizarre than i'd like.

--
// jack
// http://nuthole.com

[Heath Borders]

I'm Heath. I've been doing Cocoa and C programming for about 1 year
on iPhone 3 and now iOS 4.1. I previously did Java rich client and
web development for about 10 years. I'm very interested in
concurrency concerns with Cocoa, as well as internals of the system,
and how to use the tools in the best way. I was not on the cocoa-dev
list.

-Heath Borders
hbor...@mail.win.org
Twitter: heathborders
http://heath-tech.blogspot.com

[Terin Stock]

I'm Terin, and I've been developing for a few years now, most of that
web development with PHP, though I've dabbled in Ruby/Ruby on Rails,
Python/Django, Lisp, ASM (x86), C/C++. Just in the last year, I've
started development for Mac (and thus justified finally moving away
from my aging iBook).

The only Cocoa-based project that I've brought to a point where it's
good enough to distribute is my hotkey listener for Grooveshark
Desktop, GSDesktopHelper for Mac (http://threestrangedays.net/)

Excited for this new list, and the things I'm probably going to learn
from it. ;)

--
Terin Stock

[Stuart Carnie]

I'm Stu and I wrote my first program used in production when I was 13,
23 years ago. I built it from scratch in Turbo Pascal 5.0, developing
my own pull down menus and window system (all in text mode). It's
purpose was to analyse data gathered from Psion handhelds and produce
printed reports. What a challenge that was back then with no such
thing as a printer driver or standard APIs. It was used for about 8
years until we replaced it for my university project. After leaving
university, I have been working professionally for 15 years. My
current day job is a Principal Architect working with C++ and C#.
I've personally had Macs for about 5.5 years now, and was first
exposed to Obj-C when the iOS SDK first hit beta. Certainly very
foreign to me initially, I've now grown to really appreciate the
language. I am the developer of C64 for iPhone and have a few more
projects on the way.

I've always loved low-level stuff, so I've spent a lot of time staring
at and writing ARM assembly - very elegant!

I also contribute to a number of open source projects, though my
primary home is now http://github.com/scarnie

Look forward to learning and contributing!

Cheers,

Stu

--
http://manomio.com | in retro we trust!
http://aussiebloke.blogspot.com

[Kevin Ballard]

My name is Kevin. I'm stalking Guy.

On Sat, Sep 4, 2010 at 9:47 PM, Guy English <geng...@mac.com> wrote:

--
Kevin Ballard
http://kevin.sb.org
kbal...@gmail.com

[Jeff LaMarche]

Hello. My name is Jeff. It's been 5 days since my last… wait, wrong meeting.

I'm an iOS developer. I still think of myself as a Mac developer too, but to be perfectly honest, I haven't done very much Cocoa/Mac since the iPhone SDK came out. Let's see… I've been working in Objective-C since OS X DP3 came out. Before that, I had done Mac dev (mostly as a hobbyist) since the late eighties. I started dabbling in programming on an Apple ][+ around 1980. It's only been since the iPhone SDK came out in 2008 that Objective-C has been my "day job", however, and I couldn't be happier. My old "day job" was in so-called "Enterprise Software" *shudder*.

Big thanks to Brent for setting this up. I signed off from Cocoa-Dev a year or two ago after being on it since 2000. It made me sad to do leave, but the volume had gone way up and the value way down and I just couldn't justify the time it took to keep up with it.

Anyway, returning to my vacation, just wanted to join in the introduction fun.

[Michael Ash]

On Sep 5, 2010, at 2:18 AM, Mason wrote:

> This year I'm mostly doing enterprise development in Objective-J/
> Cappuccino, and a lot of that work involves porting existing Mac Obj-C
> code over to Obj-J. In many cases this is a fantastically easy and
> gratifying process for a Mac programmer temporarily doing web app
> development. I know a lot of Mac shops are turning to Cappuccino when
> they need, say, a web UI component or a web edition of their cocoa
> app, so I hope the unboundedness of this list might also accommodate
> cap discussion when it comes up in our context. (Cap has it's own list
> for general discussion though: http://groups.google.com/group/objectivej)

Personally, I'd very much welcome occasional relevant-but-unusual conversations about topics like that. One of my gripes about cocoa-dev (understandable due to the traffic volume, but no less a gripe) was how focused it was and unable to accept interesting digressions.

On a similar subject, I'm a big fan of using PyObjC to explore the frameworks and experiment. E.g.:

>>> from AppKit import *
>>> NSApplicationLoad()
True
>>> w = NSWindow.alloc().init()
>>> w.contentView().superview()
<NSThemeFrame: 0x104213cd0>
>>> w.contentView().superview().superview()
>>>

This sort of thing can be really handy.

Mike

[Thomas Balthazar]

Hey,

My name is Thomas. I'm a web developer transitioning to Cocoa.
I first approached the Cocoa philosophy through the Cappuccino
framework.

I wrote my first iPhone app recently and I open sourced it :
http://github.com/suitmymind/CocoaCasts-episodes

and I'm documenting the development process through some free
screencasts (feedback welcome!) :
http://suitmymind.com/blog/category/cocoa-casts

Cheers,
Thomas.

[Robert McGovern]

I'm Rob, @tarasis on Twitter. Like Tim I'm more of a lurker type.

I'm a stay at home dad, though I do sysadmin stuff for Scotty & The
Mac Developer Network. I've started writing an iOS app that for the
moment is for the iPhone but will hopefully be done for the iPad too;
if nothing else to explore the different interaction possibilities.

In a former life I used to to be an embedded systems engineer (C, C++
& Java) though I'm glad to see the end of that. Objective C / Cocoa re-
ignited my interest in developing again.

Rob

[Greg Reichow]

Great list concept; thanks for getting this setup!

My name is Greg Reichow. Started my developer life at age 13 with a simple application built in BASIC on an Apple ][ back in the day. After a 25 year distraction with another career in solar, I am back doing some development as a hobby and hope to some day make it into a full-time business. I am an American living/working in the Philippines. I have been working with cocoa for about 5 years now with most of my recent focus on iOS development. I have developed a couple iOS apps under my software business named MangoCode.

I look forward to participating on this list and learning even more. If by chance any of you end up on the island of Luzon, shoot me a note!

Greg

[Jacob Gorban]

I'm Jacob Gorban, founder of Apparent Software. We currently focus on
the Mac and have 3 applications, ImageFramer, Cashculator and Blast
(in 1.0 release order).
I've been programming for the Mac since early 2006 but have been
programming non-professionally since late 1980ies, during my pre-teen
years.
I also like Ruby which I learned long before Rails appeared and made
it popular.
In my youth I liked to program in Pascal for DOS and 8086 assembler,
then in C++, then Perl/PHP/Ruby for web.

I'm more than a year now running Apparent Software full time after 3
years of running it during nights/weekends.
I also follow apple's cocoa-dev and quartz mailing lists.

[Alastair]

On Sep 4, 8:04 pm, Brent Simmons <br...@ranchero.com> wrote:

> We're at 19 members. You may begin writing.

This seems like a very good idea, though I wonder how long it'll be
before it turns into a cocoa-dev style firehose :-)

I originally switched to the Mac platform back in 2001 after buying
myself a TiBook to use for testing something at work (since the PCs
they gave me weren't capable of generating the required amount of LAN
traffic)... I didn't really intend to switch, it just turned out that
way. Even back then, Cocoa was quite an eye-opener; I remember
wondering why it was that more of a fuss hadn't been made about
OpenStep and its predecessors, given that they must have been
dramatically better than other development environments of their day.

Anyway, it became apparent that it was going to be annoying installing
developer seeds of Mac OS X, because you couldn't repartition the disk
without losing everything. On the PC I'd used PartitionMagic a few
times, which *could* do this, but rather than just copying that I
thought I could do much better and so iPartition was born.
Subsequently I wrote another program, iDefrag, which turned out to be
even more popular than iPartition.

You may *also* be familiar with an article I wrote a while back in
response to the Month of Kernel Bugs' disk image "vulnerability" in
Mac OS X, or with my past activities on cocoa-dev; I'm also
responsible for some code that made it into XEmacs and GCC
(particularly the MinGW variant, but IIRC the PalmOS guys took one of
my more interesting patches as well). These days I only occasionally
post on cocoa-dev since I don't have time to follow it in any serious
way.

Given that I used to work in embedded software, as you might imagine
I'm interested in all kinds of low-level stuff, but I'm *also*
interested in higher-level user interface issues.

My blog (currently inactive until I visit our data centre to plug some
servers in):

<http://alastairs-place.net>

An example of a complex full-custom Cocoa control that I posted during
NSConference:

<http://code.google.com/p/csiconview/>

You can also find me on Twitter (@alastairh).

[Hamish]

My name is Hamish, and I'm a Cocoaholic.

It's been more than two years since an argument over a technical
matter with the moderator of Cocoa-dev caused him to require my posts
to be individually moderated. After a few times posting answers which
were duplication of effort by the time they'd been approved, I
unsubscribed and have never looked back!

I'm a longtime Cocoa hobbyist, turned professional by the arrival of
iPhone OS. I'm excited by the prospect of a list which is divorced
from Apple, indexed by Google, and wider in scope and higher-traffic
than http://www.omnigroup.com/mailman/listinfo/macosx-dev.

Best wishes,
Hamish

On Sep 4, 9:04 pm, Brent Simmons <br...@ranchero.com> wrote:
> We're at 19 members. You may begin writing.
>

> -Brent

[drops]

Hi,

I am working full time as iOS developer since December and parttime
since the SDK 2.0 came out.

I subscribed to this because I like good riddles... :)

Be reading you
Oliver Drobnik

PS: Some know me as Dr. Touch

[Steven Degutis]

Hello! Looking forward to participating in this experiment :)

Briefly about me, my name is Steven Degutis, I've been programming
seriously for roughly 5 years and as a hobbyist for twice as long. For
the last 6 months I worked for Big Nerd Ranch as a consultant doing
Mac and iOS programming. I like long walks on the be-- oh wait, this
isn't that type of thing?

My main interest in Cocoa started 3 or so years ago, and for the
majority of those 3 years I spent a lot of time writing terrible code
and learning from those mistakes. You can find some of that terrible
code over at http://github.com/sdegutis .. but besides Cocoa and ObjC,
I also know plenty of Python, PyObjC, MacRuby, and Ruby (woo), and
lately I've been looking into Lisp and Go.

(Related: I would love to see an entire set of frameworks written in
Go instead of ObjC to replace Cocoa, and I definitely would love to
help out in making it happen, if it's even possible in the first
place.)

[Jer]

Jerry, from Frontier Design Group. We've written a handful of iPhone
apps the past couple of years, mostly music based (iShred, Guitar, Six-
String, PianoStudio). We also develop audio related hardware
(Tranzport, AlphaTrack, plus a number of products for Tascam), writing
drivers for Mac & Win and plugins for most of the popular digital
audio apps.

[AbovegroundDan]

Hey all, my name is Dan, from Aboveground Systems (aboveground.com),
an indie dev in NY. Been doing iOS stuff for over a year and a half
now, and have released about 8-9 apps, both under the Aboveground name
and for clients.

Before striking out on my own doing iOS development, I worked at a
large media conglomerate doing project management, leaving my
development skills collecting dust. Before that I worked at Sony's
online games division, and had a game company startup before that
doing Nintendo 64 and PC games.

iOS development has brought my coding chops back up to par, and look
forward to helping others, and hopefully getting some help when I get
stuck :)

-Dan

[Pietro Maggi]

Ciao,
My name is Pietro, I'm an embedded software developer by day trying to
build some Mac software by night. In the past I've programmed a lot of
different devices (from PalmOS to Java server applications).

Hoping to learn something about cocoa and obj-C (not difficult looking
at where I'm now).

Regards

[Matt Legend Gemmell]

I'm Matt Legend Gemmell. Yes, it's every bit as wonderful as you'd
expect.

-M

[Andrew Madsen]

Hi there,
My name is Andrew. I've been doing Mac development in Cocoa for about 5 years now. I have an app called Aether (http://www.aetherlog.com/) that is my main project, though I've dabbled in iOS programming at home, and have recently completed a fairly complex iOS app for internal use at work where I'm an electrical engineer (most of the time).

I'm a member of cocoa-dev, but I'm glad to see another list where we can hopefully be more free to discuss things related to Cocoa.

-Andrew

[StuFF mc (.com)]

I'm Stuff, from http://pomcast.biz - I do mainly Cocoa & Ruby projects
for Customers, and hopefully ASAP my own products...

--- a bit of history...

I've interviewed some of the guys on the mailing list on my podcast,
among others http://pomcast.com/2010/04/03/81-jeff-lamarche/

I started this podcast in 2005, but to be honnest, it's not really my
focus anymore lately, although I keep it around.

I'm finished my computer science school in 97, at the age of 21, and I
started a (too long) carrer on the microsoft boat, spending a lot of
time with .Net

I discovered the Mac around 99/2000 but really got into it when I
started Pomcast.fr in 2005

I always wanted to be a Mac programmer, but the learning curve was
just so "not easy" and I was busy earning money, blah blah blah...

I was enough motivated by trying it when the iPhone SDK came - more
for the love of the iPhone itself then Cocoa/ObjC, but I stick around
since over 2 years

I am friggin happy and proud to belong to this wonderful community and
I don't think Microsoft will see me any time soon :)

ps: I'm also a huge Ruby And Rails fan, it's my "server side"
technology of choice, and client side on the web I touched a bit
Cappuccino but have done a few things with jQuery and generally Ajax.


I, I, I,... you? Next one please :-)

StuFF mc
http://pomcast.biz
@stuffmc

[Steven Degutis]

Although I was sure I sent a reply to this thread this morning, I can't find it for the life of me. So I'll be brief:

My name is Steven Degutis, for the last 6 months I was a consultant at Big Nerd Ranch writing in iOS and Cocoa with ObjC. I've been professionally coding in these for the last 3 years or so, writing terrible code and slowly trying to learn how to write less terrible code. Some proof of this can be found at http://github.com/sdegutis

Lately my interests have expanded to Python (with which I was in love for a month) and PyObjC (which just sucks), then Ruby (with which I am enamored at the moment) and MacRuby, and Lisp (which I really like in theory but is still ugly as hell) and Nu, more in-depth C, and Go (with which I am going to be enamored once I understand it better). I also have a serious problem abusing the privilege of parentheses (which should be self-evident at this point).

ObjC seems weak in comparison to most of these languages, but it's the only language we can use to write iOS and serious Cocoa apps, so it is what it is. (Though, the stuff Mike Ash does with it is pretty damn cool, I have to say.)

Steven Degutis

ste...@degutis.org

http://degutis.org (my currently-defunct blog which will probably be revamped at some point)

http://blog.degutis.org (my active tumblr)

[Wevah]

Hello!

I'm Nate Weaver, but I usually go by "Wevah" on the tubes. I've been
mucking about with Cocoa/Mac programming since around 2001 or so (I
think the oldest source file I currently still use is dated some time
in 2002, for an iTunes controller I still haven't released).

I'm currently employed writing internal-use Mac apps/messing up the
Postgres database for a local financial services company.

I slack off on Paparazzi! in my spare time and I have contributed
small bits of code to the Camino browser in the past (though Gecko is
a nightmare for me compared to WebKit).

I think that's it for now…

[Phil Holland]

Hi, I'm Phil. I've been using Cocoa for 8 years or so, though I now primarily work in C during work hours.

[Steve Weller]

I started with Cocoa in 2005 as a hobby after spending my whole career
in the trenches of embedded hardware and software, working my way out
of engineering and into management. I switched to iOS while attending
WWDC 2008 when it was clear that it was going to be the Next Big
Thing.

Coming from the faceless driver/kernel/library/procedural end of
things into the application/UI/OO/frameworks world has been an
interesting exercise in deja vu. I'm still working with a multi-
tasking, real-time embedded system, just more complex and challenging
than before because there's a user staring at it the whole time.

Laid off from my management job, I jumped back into software with both
feet and have been having a blast. I'm currently at SoundHound Inc.
writing iPhone and iPad apps. We're a sound and voice recognition
research start-up in San Jose with a knack for monetizing what we do
well. You'll find our current app "SoundHound" in the top 10 in the
music category. In my "spare" time, I'm writing a niche iPad app that
will hit the store in a year or so, I reckon.

[Jens Ayton]

On Sep 5, 2010, at 08:22, Jack Nutting wrote:
>
> these days i'm building iPhone/iPad apps for a small Swedish bank

Not HQ Bank, I hope. ;-)

My name is Jens (pronounced /yence/) and I'm a dirty damn civilian^W hobbyist. I've been at it since, oh, before Mac OS 8, and switched to Cocoa immediately after Mac OS X 10.2 came out - not counting an abortive attempt to port the Objective-C runtime to Mac OS 9. (I could probably do it now, if I could find my CodeWarrior CDs...)

I have this here interweb thingy: http://jens.ayton.se/ with some free code (some of which has been used commercially) and some blog posts about silly things you can do in Objective-C.

--
Jens Ayton

[kwe]

I'm Kevin, web developer (especially Ruby on Rails) and now 'beginner'
iOS. Pre-web C/C++ Unix developer, so looking to remember some skills.
Inspired by a trip to WWDC; especially interested in producing
software to help people on the autistic spectrum communicate.

[Steven Degutis]

(Sorry about the double-post, I guess the server was backed up, and I chalked it up to my error.)

[Vladimir Pouzanov]

Hi all.

I first came to Cocoa development in 1.x iPhoneOS times, but I've
became addicted very fast and switched to OSX as my primary platform
(was not that hard with my previous unix experience).

I keep iOS and OSX programming mostly as hobby, however I've been
participating in several mid-sized projects. My primary job is
lecturing (CS & Math).

Also, I really like Cappuccino and the way it changed web development
for me. I find Objective-C a very elegant language (I still prefer
python where possible), and it's very nice the see same programming
patterns applied to JavaScript.

--
Sincerely,
Vladimir "Farcaller" Pouzanov
http://farcaller.net/

[Matthijs Hollemans]

Hi,

Nice to meet you all.

My name is Matthijs and I am from The Netherlands. Currently I am a
senior PHP developer for an ISP, but I've handed in my notice and soon
I will be doing iOS development full time. Don't let the mention of
PHP fool you, I'm not a newbie. ;-)

Here is some open source code: http://github.com/hollance

Twitter: http://twitter.com/mhollemans

As part of this move into full time iOS development, I plan to get
more involved with the developer community. So I'm looking forward to
good discussions on this list!

[Matt Martel]

Hi all,

My name is Matt Martel. I've been a Cocoa developer for maybe 5 years.
I spent about 20 years working in New England for big companies on Mac
and Windows cross-platform products. I quit my last day job about a
year ago and moved to Colorado where I now focus on my own iPhone
apps. I've forgotten everything I used to know about Lisp,
AppleEvents, SQL, real-time video processing, etc., and am happy
making casual games now. My new company has released about a dozen
apps, which have been downloaded over 7 million times. Things are
definitely better here in the foothills of the Rocky Mountains.

-Matt
ma...@mundue.net
Twitter: @mmartel
http://blog.mundue.net

[Erik Tjernlund]

I'm Erik. Swedish, but living outside Lausanne, Switzerland for about 8 months now. I'm only a beginner cocoa and cocoa touch dev (about a year), but I've been working as a developer for about 10 years and programming since I was a kid. Last 4 years I've been a java consultant in Stockholm.

My jeopardy categories would be: java in the enterprise bank dungeon, mac os sans late 70s beard, emacs is better than vi, famous arguments about where/when/how to move scrum board post-its, ways eclipse is the worst ide in the history of the world, things xcode could learn from jetbrains intellij idea and, lastly ... hmm ... brothers who has worked at microsoft in the 80s.

As a newbie, I'll try to keep the stupid questions to myself and hopefully we can have a good signal/noise ratio here. Starting ... now! (This mail doesn't count).

Oh, yeah, I've realized I have way too much stuff from Apple. Sometimes it feels simpler if I just could write Steve a check each year and he'd just send me at least one of everything they manufacture.

/ET

-- 

http://twitter.com/tjernlund

[Dan Ray]

My name is Dan Ray. I've been a web developer since 1998, freelancing
since 2004.

About five months ago I was sitting in a job interview with an IT
services and software company that had sold some iPhone projects and
was looking for somebody to build them. I said, if somebody wanted to
pay me to sit and get really good at iPhone development, that'd be
pretty much my perfect job. They asked if I could start on monday.

I've got two projects in development that I'll likely submit in the
next week or so, and another starting in a week or two. I'm totally
looking forward to participating in this group!

[Jarin Udom]

Hi peoples!

I'm Jarin Udom, an iPhone and Ruby on Rails developer in San Diego.
I'm the founder of Robot Mode LLC and lead developer on Locurious
(http://locurious.com).

VIVA LA RESISTANCE!

Jarin Udom
Founder, Robot Mode LLC
619-66-DROID

[Rich Wardwell]

I've already found two other fellow Cocoa devs in Nashville from the introductions, so I'll add my own.  I've programmed in a bunch of languages since the 80's.  Don't remember them all.  Don't want to remember many of them.  Enjoy programming in Objective-C as much as possible, but relegated to C and C++ (kill me) during the day job more often than I would like.  Generally work on audio processing and algorithms during the day (I work for the company that owns the audio recognition system licensed by Shazam) and tinker with practically anything I can find (iPad related usually) during the evenings.   

Hope this turns out to be a productive venue for helping (and being helped) on the road to Mac/iOS coding nirvana.

Rich

http://lifeisrich.org

@rcw3

[zachwaugh]

Hi, I'm Zach Waugh. I'm a web and Cocoa developer in Baltimore. I
mostly do web dev during the day, a lot of front-end HTML/CSS/JS and
Ruby on Rails, and Cocoa on the side. I've released a few iphone apps
and few small open-source mac apps (http://github.com/zachwaugh). I
also started a Cocoa meetup group in Baltimore a few months ago
(http://baltimorecocoa.com).

Zach
http://zachwaugh.com
@zachwaugh

[David Cann]

Hi all, I'm David and our new company is creating a plush toy for kids
that's controlled by iOS devices over bluetooth via an app with games,
activities, etc (xachipet.com). My (mostly former) day job is
contract iOS apps for major brands and some Cappuccino work.

[Rich]

I've already found two other fellow Cocoa devs in Nashville from the
introductions, so I'll add my own. I've programmed in a bunch of
languages since the 80's. Don't remember them all. Don't want to
remember many of them. Enjoy programming in Objective-C as much as

possible, but relegated to C and C++ (just kill me) during the day job

[vyach]

Hi, I'm Zakovyrya.
I do iPhone dev for fun. One of my projects was SOCKS5 proxy server.
Now I'm trying to make Scheme runtime (Gambit-C) working on iOS.

[Stefan Arentz]

On Sep 4, 3:04 pm, Brent Simmons <br...@ranchero.com> wrote:
> We're at 19 members. You may begin writing.

Awesome! I'm Stefan and I live in Toronto. I am self employed and I've
been doing iOS development for the past 2 years now. Mostly for my
clients in the Toronto area. I have a dozen apps on the store that I
have either written by myself or as part of a team. I'm interested in
all things iOS.

I'm happy this list exists. It will be good to also be able to talk
about unofficial techniques, hacks and iOS internals without a
moderator shooting down threads.

Shout out to people from Toronto: there is a small group of us getting
together on thursdays. We drink coffee, hack on code and socialize.
Usually announced ad-hoc on twitter .. follow @coffeeandios.

S.

[Jim Dovey]

I'm Jim, and I've been a full-time Mac/iOS programmer for ten years now. Prior to that I did Windows, Linux, and Palm software.

I've worked with most of the lowest level public APIs in Mac OS X at an intimate level, learning about the login and authentication processes, how Managed Client works, how networking preferences and setup are handled, and the various software runtimes and link/loader behaviours in OS X. I wrote the original package manager for the Apple TV homebrew software world, and the original 3rd-party Apple TV simulator and development kit. I've also implemented a widely-used networked digital signage system on top of the Apple TV platform.

I've consulted for a few years, but since January I've been working as the iOS Team Lead for Kobo in Toronto. On Saturday September 17th I'm giving a presentation on iOS 4 networking and data handling at FITC Mobile here in Toronto.

Greetings all,
-Jim

[Warren Dodge]

Hi, I'm Warren from Los Angeles.

Enjoying Cocoa and iOS programming, as it's so much saner than the enterprise world I left behind. I've been programming since 1989, when I started in C and dbase. Java, python and rails -- as well as some best-forgotten, vendor-specific, proprietary languages round out the mix.

Looking forward to this list being a breath of fresh, uncontrolled, non-Big Brother, air. Not that I have anything against the folks at Apple who are just doing their jobs, but too many people there seem to see their jobs as controlling others with a heavy hand for no good reason.

Communities of cocoa programmers separate from the venues that Apple provides are a healthy indicator of a growing and maturing Mac/iOS ecosystem.

Warren

[Gleb Dolgich]

I'm Gleb Dolgich, @glebd on Twitter, living in London. I'm helping my better half; she is PixelEspresso -- http://pixelespressoapps.com

I'm a Windows programmer by day, Cocoa programmer by night and weekends. Started developing for the Mac about 3 years ago after spending 15+ years developing software for Windows; released Decloner utility and a few iPhone apps. Currently working on an iPad app called Photopage while learning iOS.

[Evadne Wu]

Hi. I’m Evadne. I mostly work on UI design and front-end coding, and am new to Cocoa. Handled Web work [1], but going to work with iOS & OS X full-time very soon. Hoping to learn as much as possible. It’s wonderful to be here. ;)

It’s @evadne. I’m also on http://github.com/monoceroi and http://github.com/iridia . I’m in Taipei.

[1]: And enjoying Cappuccino very, very much.

[Jon Olson]

Hi all,

I'm Jon, I've been a hobbyist Cocoa dev since around Panther and a professional iOS developer since the release of the SDK. While I'd primarily done contract work up until early this year, these days I head up Ballistic Pigeon (http://ballisticpigeon.com), a small iOS shop in Atlanta, GA. It's a tiny company right now with only one iPad product, but we're working hard to grow.

Jon Olson / @jonolson

[Alex Queiroz]

Hallo,

On Sun, Sep 5, 2010 at 3:55 PM, vyach <zako...@gmail.com> wrote:
> Hi, I'm Zakovyrya.
> I do iPhone dev for fun. One of my projects was SOCKS5 proxy server.
> Now I'm trying to make Scheme runtime (Gambit-C) working on iOS.
>

I did that last year:
http://www.artisancoder.com/2009/10/scheme-hits-the-app-store/
If you are stuck I may be able to help.

Cheers,
--
-alex
http://www.artisancoder.com/

[Joachim Bengtsson]

Hey world, I'm nevyn. I make Spotify's iOS app and help out as much as I can on their Mac/desktop app. My big brother got me and my little brother our first Mac when I was 4; possibly a 512k or a Plus. I liked to tinker with ResEdit, but I spent too much time playing games and reading fantasy books to get info programming until a friend showed me the wonders of QBASIC. I didn't have a PC and so couldn't run it, but I *did* find REALBasic, which I used to write the world's most atrocious IRC client (nIRC), among many other things. It mostly went downhill from there, with PHP and AppleScript and what have you, until I shaped up and learned C (and by Hillegass' guiding words, ObjC) maybe six years ago. Since then, I've released games and tools on thirdcog.eu, tons of useless code on github.com/nevyn, and rambled on about all manner of things on overooped.com. If you live in Stockholm, don't read the latter as I'll be talking about that NSInvocation entry at Cocoaheads sthlm tomorrow. I like to like Mac dev more than iOS dev just to be contrary.

[Fred Jean]

Hi,

My name is Frederic Jean. I started working with iOS and Cocoa Touch a
few months ago with an iPhone and iPad prototype for my employer (Time
Warner Cable). The iPad version of the prototype was highlighted on
engadget and Gizmodo.

I have spent the bulk of my career working with Java and other
languages that run on the JVM before taking a year long detour into
JRuby land. This detour was rudely interrupted when Oracle bought Sun
and skewered Project Kenai even further than Sun had itself.

I'm looking forward to read the discussions on this list.

Fred

On Sep 4, 1:04 pm, Brent Simmons <br...@ranchero.com> wrote:
> We're at 19 members. You may begin writing.
>

> -Brent

[Joseph Heck]

I'm Joe - mostly a lurker, but I periodically get to work with iOS or MacOS code, and have been doing so on and off for over a decade (Metrowerks) Mostly I work on infrastructure software (C, python, webapps, linux, plethora of open source, etc - the latest is "cloud services")

I keep a small iPhone app company, have taught iOS/iPhone/iPad programming for O'Reilly and run a Seattle user's group called Seattle Xcoders (http://www.seattlexcoders.org/) to keep me sane while workin' for the man.

-joe

[Daniel Stine]

Hi, my name is Daniel. I'm a CS student, studying at a school that uses Java, but I purify myself using Objective-C. I started programming as a hobby about 6 years ago, on a TI calculator. I got my first Mac 4 years ago, a Power Mac 6500. Since it didn't have any software development tools on it, I taught myself some AppleScript. In the meantime, I taught myself C and learned C++ from a class. I taught myself Objective-C/Cocoa from Aaron Hillegass's book. I've posted some AppleScript scripts that I've written over the past year or so to my web site (http://danielstine.name/). I've yet to post any actual Obj-C Cocoa apps, though I did post a utility that I wrote using AppleScriptObjC. I'm interested in getting into iOS development, though, as a college student, I don't exactly have $99 lying around. I look forward to participating in the mailing list and hope to learn a lot.

Daniel
http://danielstine.name/

[Simon Wolf]

> We're at 19 members. You may begin writing.

Hi all. I'm Simon Wolf, @sgaw on Twitter, and I develop Mac and iOS
applications under the banner of Otter Software (http://
www.ottersoftware.com).

I 've been developing software since the mid 1990s when I left
university and kind of fell into it, almost by accident. Mid-2003,
despite being a VB6 developer (yeah, skim over that bit, move along
and forget I admitted it) I bought an iBook to replace my much loved
but almost obsolete Psion netBook and fell in love with OS X. In the
spring of 2008 I finally got the opportunity to teach myself Objective-
C and Cocoa for a project at work and never looked back. In January
this year I handed in my notice and left my job at the end of March.
Since then I've been doing contract work for a number of people and
organisations, mainly Mac work which surprised me since I was
expecting to be doing iOS work.

I'm a bit of an all-rounder although a lot of my work seems to revolve
around video and QuickTime to one degree or another. I have plans to
develop and release my own applications but I think that may still be
a year or two off becoming reality.

I'm not sure how much I'll be able to contribute here because after
just two and a half years I still feel a bit of a newbie but I hope to
learning a lot and will be chipping in when I can.

Simon

[Paul Ward]

On Sep 4, 2010, at 12:04 PM, Brent Simmons <br...@ranchero.com> wrote:

My name's Paul Ward (@dssstrkl on twitter) and I'm an out of work marine biologist. I've been interested in coding since the late 90s, but that's been limited to some hobbyist stuff and a few beginner comp sci classes in college.

I've taken unemployment as an opportunity and have been seriously diving into Cocoa development for the last several months.

> We're at 19 members. You may begin writing.
>

> -Brent
>

Paul Ward
dsss...@me.com

[Matt Drance]

My name's Matt. I used to lock developer discussion threads for a living. Now I start them. Guy says I'm a dick.

On Sep 4, 2010, at 9:47 PM, Guy English wrote:

> My name is Guy. I like Kevin.
>
>
> On 2010-09-05, at 12:35 AM, Kevin Avila <ke...@hzsystems.com> wrote:
>
>> my name is kevin. I run #macdev/#iphonedev on freenode. I like C.

[Patrick Burleson]

Hello,

My name is Patrick Burleson and I've been programming for the better part of the past 20 years. My day job is .NET and Microsoft tech related, but I come home and run BitBQ. I have fun writing things in Cocoa to keep my sanity. Mostly focused on iOS at the moment, but I've got a couple of Mac ideas I'm kicking around. I've been doing Cocoa stuff since around 2007 and I've fallen in love with Objective-C.

I'm @pbur on Twitter and live in the Dallas, TX area. Feel free to join us for our non-standard night NSCoder Night on Wednesday nights at 7:00-9:00 PM at the Panera Bread at Campbell Rd. and 75. 

Patrick

P.S. Thanks to Brent for setting this up and to Mike for planting the seed.

[Martin]

Figured I might as well chime in on this intro thread. Name is Martin
(@imaginaryboy on twitter, though my tweets tend toward nonsense, and
typically aren't dev related). I'm rather new to the Obj-C world
having only gotten into things since the iPhone when a client needed
some work done in that area and I got the assignment. It's certainly
been an interesting journey. Prior to that my career has involved
coding in C, C++, ActionScript, and Java on a reasonable variety of
platforms.

[Joe McMahon]

I'm @joemcmahon on Twitter. My day job is buildmaster and torture tester at blekko.com (search engine with a new spin, private beta going on now, drop me a note if you'd like an invite); in my free time I do some iPhone and iPad programming, currently for my own edification, but I have a couple apps in nascent stages.

[Larry Staton Jr.]

I'm Larry Staton Jr., a reformed attorney who now writes Objective-C
and Ruby code for a living.

/ls

[RichardB]

Hi, I'm Richard Buckle, @RichardBuckle on Twitter.

Been programming in various incarnations of Mac OS since 1990 and
Cocoa since 1999 (including some WebObjects work back in the day). I
also worked for iView Multimedia back when it was an indie company.
Nowadays I'm a freelance iOS and Mac OS X consultant.

[Tony Gonzalez]

On Sep 4, 3:04 pm, Brent Simmons <br...@ranchero.com> wrote:
> We're at 19 members. You may begin writing.

Hi, all. I'm Tony, from Athens, Georgia. I started programming on Macs as a hobby back in pre-System 7 days, and for a while in the late 90s I did mainly web development using a little of this and a little of that. I'm back in school now, working on a PhD in Education, and as a result of that I've developed a strong interest in mobile apps for education. That prompted me to dust off my old skills, and begin learning Obj-C and iOS programming earlier this year. I have an iPhone app and an iPad app out, but still have lots and lots to learn.

I doubt that I have the skillz to contribute much to the conversation here, but I'll definitely be an eager lurker. Looking forward to pick up what I can.

[Kevin Hoctor]

Hi Everyone: First time poster, long time developer. I'm not as old as
Rainer, but close enough to know to stay off his lawn.

When I started writing software, Fortran IV was cool and punchcards
still had some life to them. My first computer was a Mac 128K
purchased as soon as they were announced and I managed to make a few
dollars selling Mac shareware in the mid 80's. Too many years of my
life were spent earning a living writing DOS and Windows software, but
I've been liberated for almost four years now.

I'm a serial entrepreneur and am currently the Chief Cook & Bottle
Washer at my fifth company, No Thirst Software. You can read my
(recently neglected) blog at http://kevinhoctor.blogspot.com and I'm
@kevinhoctor on Twitter (or @oldhoctor if you want to hear me gripe
about trampled grass). I love seeing developers succeed.

Thanks for starting this group Brent!

Peace,
Kevin

[Gareth Townsend]

My Name is Gareth (or GT, or G-Tizzle, or douchebag).

I'm from Melbourne, Australia. I started and still run the local
CocoaHeads group. Ruby pays the bills, cocoa is my playground. I'm a
little obsessed with UX at the moment. Words to live by: Be More
Awesome.

GT

[Eric Scouten]

Hi ... I'm Eric and I do Cocoa-ish stuff at Adobe, most recently
Lightroom. Looks like a fun mix of familiar and new names here.

-Eric

[vyach]

Great, I could use some help :)

I tried James Long's code
http://github.com/jlongster/gambit-iphone-example
on iOS 4.*. I believe it was working with iOS 3.0. But here is where I
hit the wall:
I passed through Gambit-c's libraries compilation (I use 4.6.0. Had
this problem:
http://www.iro.umontreal.ca/~gambit/repo/.cgit.cgi/Gambit/commit/?id=e426e61795e2edc0cd6fcd4a8a033f94175b1054)
I finally made it compiled for both arm and intel and done all the
make file madness which generates bootstrap code (?) for Gambit-C
runtime, but this function call from man.m
___setup(&setup_params);
generates EXC_BAD_ACCESS error, which I gave up to solve until I
figure out how to properly run Gambit-C in hosted env.

Thanks in advance for your help.

Zakovyrya

On Sep 5, 2:36 pm, Alex Queiroz <asand...@gmail.com> wrote:
> Hallo,
>

[Jon Hjelle]

Hi, I'm Jon.

Currently doing contract work and running Pseudorandom Software (pseudorandomsoftware.com).

Mostly hoping to gain some wisdom from the more experienced folk.

I go by jahjelle or hjon depending on what it is.

Twitter: @hjon

[Colin Wheeler]

Hello,

My Names Colin Wheeler. When Im not plotting to take over the world... err working my day job in tech support, I am writing Cocoa articles on www.cocoasamurai.com and writing the software I hope to become a indie developer with. 

Colin Wheeler

twitter: cocoasamurai

www.cocoasamurai.com
"No fair! You changed the outcome by measuring it!" - Professor Farnsworth (Futurama)

On Sat, Sep 4, 2010 at 2:04 PM, Brent Simmons <br...@ranchero.com> wrote:

We're at 19 members. You may begin writing.

-Brent

[Adam St. Onge]

I'll follow suit, I'm a noob compared to some of these experienced
developers since I just started developing with Objective C and IOS
this winter. Although I like to think i've come a long way from where
I started. I do have one app in the App store so far called
"BabyLogs" and I hope to continue being an Indie developer and
learning from what seems like a very talented group of developers.

http://remarkablepixels.com/babylogs

On Sep 5, 2:22 am, Jack Nutting <jnutt...@gmail.com> wrote:
> I'm Jack, and I've been doing Cocoa programming since the days of
> NeXTStep 3.2, long before it was called Cocoa. Most of that has been
> apps for internal use at various companies, or niche products that few
> people will have heard of. these days i'm building iPhone/iPad apps
> for a small Swedish bank (I'm an American, but have been living in
> Sweden for years), putting out the occasional iPhone and Mac software
> of my own (http://rebisoft.com), using Rails for most of my backend
> needs, and writing books on Cocoa and iPhone/iPad development.
>
> As for the cocoa-dev list, I was a member for years until the signal/
> noise ratio got really low. Signed up again last year, and I think the
> s/n is better than a few years ago, but the moderation is somewhat
> more bizarre than i'd like.
>
> --
> // jack
> //http://nuthole.com

[Josh Johnson]

Hi, I'm Josh. I'm from Raleigh, NC. By day, I work for a manufacturer where I wear many hats, from Enterprise iPhone Apps to custom AutoCAD automation.. By night, I'm busy attempting to join the indie mac dev ranks. I also started the Raleigh CocoaHeads group... now we blend that and NSCoder together weekly.

I like cocoa. So do you all. GOOD TIMES.

--
Josh Johnson
twitter: jnjosh

http://www.jnjosh.com

[Christian Miller]

I'm Christian Miller (@evercode on twitter) from Raleigh, NC and I operate Pariahware, Inc. I've been coding since the early 1980s, was a full-time VB programmer for 5 years before joining the ranks of consultants, which I've been doing for about 6 years. I currently have 2 iOS apps in the store, Biblicious & Biblicious LE, and am working on joining the ranks of the indie developers "any day now".

Christian
Pariahware, Inc.
Mac, Windows, Linux, & iPhone Consulting
<paria...@pariahware.com>
<http://www.pariahware.com>
--
God loved you so much that He gave His only son Jesus. What have you done with God's gift?

[Jordan Breeding]

I'm Jordan Breeding (@jordanbreeding on twitter, as well as the somewhat out of date jordanbreeding.com). I have been programming for just over 20 years now. Most of my programming has either been Apple (BASIC, Pascal, Future Basic), UNIX (Perl, C++), or both on OS X now (Objective-C/C++, Ruby, Python, F-Script, Nu).

I am almost always programming and working on things when I have spare time to, I tested and wrote patches for Perl and C++ telecommunications code for 9 years professionally, then moved over to do some Java on Windows testing (and helped port a Win32 OpenGL app to Cocoa in the process), and now I am working on iOS applications full-time.

I have worked in several languages over the years including some of the more exotic ones (Prolog, Lisp, Scheme, SML), but I find myself coming back to Objective-C, Ruby, and Python a lot.

I would like to take a moment to thank Brent and Mike for all that they do for the community and for setting up this list. I would also like to say thanks to @pbur, @stutsmansoft, and @jagmit for proving that I didn't have to leave the Dallas area to find other talented Cocoa developers.

Who knows, I might even more of a poster on this list instead of being to lurker that I was on cocoa-dev.

[Andy Lee]

I'm Andy Lee and I'm in New York. I've always been a NextStepper at heart, and I'm delighted to be a year and a half into my first full-time Cocoa job ever.

I've done two Cocoa-related things that are out in the world, both sort of long in the tooth:

* AppKiDo, a documentation browser for Cocoa developers: <http://homepage.mac.com/aglee/downloads/appkido.html>
* The Top Ten Cocoa Words That Sound Dirty But Aren't: <http://www.sticksoftware.com/developer/cocoajoke.html>

I will probably spend the rest of Labor Day weekend trying to put something together for Thursday night's CocoaHeads meeting, since no one volunteered to present.

--Andy

[Caio Chassot]

Hi,

Caio Chassot, of "can't STFU on the Letters list" fame. @kch on Twitter.

I like Nu and MacRuby better than Objective-C. #thereisaidit

Unsurprisingly, most of my code out there is ruby:

http://github.com/kch
http://gist.github.com/kch

I recently wrote a Mail plugin that may be of interest to Mac developers on mailing lists:

http://gist.github.com/551055

[Caio Chassot]

Oh. Incidentally I'm in SP, BRA, which is awfully close to Rainer, so I have to take extra care to stay off his lawn.

[Terin Stock]

I didn't say it in my original reply, but I'm @terinjokes on twitter, and hailing from Gainesville, FL
--
#Terin Stock

On Sun, Sep 5, 2010 at 3:09 AM, Terin Stock <terin...@gmail.com> wrote:

I'm Terin, and I've been developing for a few years now, most of that
web development with PHP, though I've dabbled in Ruby/Ruby on Rails,
Python/Django, Lisp, ASM (x86), C/C++. Just in the last year, I've
started development for Mac (and thus justified finally moving away
from my aging iBook).

The only Cocoa-based project that I've brought to a point where it's
good enough to distribute is my hotkey listener for Grooveshark
Desktop, GSDesktopHelper for Mac (http://threestrangedays.net/)

Excited for this new list, and the things I'm probably going to learn
from it. ;)

--
Terin Stock

[arwyn]

Hey Folks,

I feel I should introduce myself but I'm not sure what to say. So uh,
Hi. First time poster, long time grunt, and self proclaimed guy of
dubious compilational ethics. I've done interesting things I've not
always been able to talk about. I've worked for companies I wasn't
always proud of, or been able to admit before the third
drink^H^H^H^H^Hbar. I've mocked those unable to get an A on an Econ
final without showing their work. I'll say I'm not proud of most of
it, but truth be told, it's deeply satisfying. Oh yeah, Mike Ash is
one to watch, and when he speaks, listen.

I've been on cocoa-dev for years but have never been able to ask any
of the questions I've found interesting. Cheers to a more enlightened
future.

-Ed

On Sep 4, 5:45 pm, Mike Ash <michael....@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> I really hope that we can get something good going here. A cocoa-dev
> without the silly politics, lame restrictions, and thoughtless
> questions and answers would be fantastic.
>
> Mike

[Michael Neuwert]

Hi all,

my name is Michael and i am developing iPhone apps (see http://www.neuwert-media.com)
mostly for fun when i am not programming GSM / WCDMA protocoll stacks
at the office. From time to time i am also working for clients to help
them getting their iPhone / iPad apps done. I started more or less
serious programming in 1992 with Z80 assembly on ZX Spectrum 48k and
worked with many different technologies and platforms since then. I
was doing Java dev and C, C++ embedded development professionally for
several years and Objective-C since 2007 as a hobby first on Mac and
then on iOS devices since SDK got available.

Looking forward to share experience and just enjoying good company;-)

Cheers,
Michael

http://twitter.com/mneuwert

[Seymores]

Hi guys,

Great job with this dev group!

I've been doing iPhone/iPad for work since nearly 2 years already and
started with cocoa desktop apps since last year on my own.

Is there somekind of advance cocoa training to do desktop application
in Singapore or Malaysia -- that where I am based in.

Cheers!