First meeting
Zach Holt
Thanks for joining SBiPhoneDev! I'm looking forward to the first
meeting.
First off, if you have any suggestions for topics, please post them to
the list. I can give the first couple of talks, but it would help to
know what you guys want to hear talks about (e.g., Objective-C primer,
unit testing, SQLite interaction, a particular API).
Time:
Wednesday February 18 @ 6:30p.m.
Place:
402 E. Gutierrez, Santa Barbara
Food:
Yes, but unknown at this point.
Looking forward to it,
Zach
berto
Thanks for putting this group together; I think it will be a great
group to have.
I have personally not done much of any Objective-C programming. A
primer on it would be quite nice.
I'll try to make it tomorrow.
Thanks!
-berto.
P. Mark Anderson
Today is the first SBiPhoneDev meeting and I was wondering if anyone
would like to start collaborating on a pair of open source apps that
work together: a Rails server and iPhone client.
The complexity for the system I have in mind is low enough for both
beginner Rails and iPhone developers, and there's a non-trivial piece
too. The purposes of the system are:
* to share which iphone apps are most useful to you
* to discover apps you'd probably like
* to promote iphone app developers
As an iphone app user, I would like to take a screenshot of my home
screen, then run a handy app that uploads that image to a server that
will automatically detect which native and web apps are present on my
home screen so that I can share my discoveries with others.
I would like to discover new and interesting iphone apps by letting
the system find affinities with other users and recommending apps used
by similar users. Display the top 20 apps I'm most likely missing as
5 rows of 4 icons (just like the iphone desktop) and link to the app
store via the system, keeping statistics on click-throughs.
It's Pandora for iPhone apps.
Notes:
* host the Rails app at herokugarden.com
* host iPhone app code at github.com
* use the ObjectiveResource library
* see http://iphone.iusethis.com
Zach, Jon: is this a direction you'd like to go?
Regards,
Mark
