NSConference 2010 Bookings Open

By drewmccormack at Thu, Oct 1 2009 8:05am |

By Drew McCormack

Early this year the Mac Developer Network (MDN) hosted the inaugural NSConference meeting for Mac developers. The 2 day meeting, which took place on a University campus in the UK, was enthusiastically welcomed by European developers, and considered a great success by all those who attended.

Next year, MDN plans to repeat the show, only this time twice over: once in the UK and once in Atlanta, USA. The same lineup of speakers will be appearing at each. The UK show runs from January 31st to February 3rd, 2010, and the US show from February 21st to February 24th, 2010. The lineup of speakers looks impressive, with the likes of Matt 'Legend' Gemmell and Aaron Hillegass to name but two. The full list is on the site.

I'll also be talking again this year, and — perhaps more interesting for scientific developers — will be giving a 6 hour workshop on Grand Central Dispatch and OpenCL the day before the conference proper begins. Anyone wanting to get a grip on these technologies should consider coming. The workshop will be very hands on, so you should go away a more complete person.

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Fri, 2009-10-02 18:26 — Ungenious

Interesting topics

The topics look interesting, anyone know if videos will be available online post conference or streamed during?

Also, the mdn logo reminds me of a weird combination of MSDN and MSNBC.

Sat, 2009-10-03 05:24 — drewmccormack

Videos

Videos are usually made available, but at a fee.

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Sun, 2009-10-04 14:21 — coccoinomane

Hi Drew! Being a Cosmology

Hi Drew!

Being a Cosmology PhD student at Portsmouth University, UK, I am very interested in your workshop. However, my only knowledge of Cocoa is your tutorial series here on MacResearch. Do you think it will be sufficient to fully understand your workshop?

Thanks,

Guido

Mon, 2009-10-05 07:44 — drewmccormack

Re: Objective-C

I think you should be fine. Actually, a lot will just be plain C. Grand Central and OpenCL are both pure C.
I'll talk about NSOperation, an Obj-C class, but you should follow it no problem.

Drew

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Tue, 2010-05-25 14:41 — cindycurt

First time I reached here

First time I reached here during search in Google