Back to Tyson’s
I am sorry I have been so inconsistent for the last month or so. Since Luis de la Rosa organized the Cocoa coders get together, I have been doing the NSCoder Night thing in Silver Spring, MD at Mayorga’s. That location is closer to where I work, while Tyson’s is on my way home. We have a small but consistent group going at Silver Spring, but I really do not want to abandon the Tyson’s area. So I think I will start alternating. One week here one week there. It is not the perfect plan, I wish we had larger groups so that the meetings would go on even if I was not there. So far, most meetings would not be meetings at all if I wasn’t there 
I will try to come up with a calendar or something to publish dates well in advance of where I will be at any given day. I have a couple of other ideas I would really like to implement. I definetly need to start an online group (google or yahoo group) to facilitiate notification of upcoming events and such. I need to seriously clean up this blog page so it is more informative. but most importantly I would like to give the meetings some more purpose. So far, most meetings wind up being just social get togathers where we discuss the latest mac/cocoa news. This is GREAT! never the less I want this to be more of a vehicle for learning cocoa and I feel I have made little progress in this respect. I am going to buy the new Hillegass book and I was thinking maybe we could all work on chapters together. I know a lot of the book might be repetition for the more advanced people out there, but still it might be a good excercise to refresh knowledge. The idea would be to anounce at least a week in advance the chapter for the week. Everyone would then be responsible to read the chapter, follow the tutorials and more importantly work on the challenges. We could then compare notes during the meetings and help each other out. Think about it, in a couple of months we would have a very strong comunity with know how in things like Core Animation and Core Data. Once we finish the book we could move on to coumunity projects… anyways… I’m getting ahead of myself.
Please chime in with your own ideas in the comments. I would really love to see this DC area comunity grow in the ways of Cocoa!
Ohhh yes… and in case you don’t know here are the directions to the Panera’s near Tyson’s Corner for tonite’s meeting (7:00pm)
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