NSManchester – October 2009

UPDATE: There was a mix up with room dates and the meeting is now on Monday 12th October, not the 14th.

I am happy to announce that we will be having another meeting of NSManchester on Monday 12th October at the BBC building in Manchester.

This month we are going to slightly change the format and have 2 shorter talks (15-20 minutes) rather than one long talk. The talks will be followed by the chance to start a discussion on any subject related to iPhone or Mac development or if you want to show something off, we would love to see it! I have no idea how this will work but given the chatty group we have, I am sure we will not be sitting in silence!

So, what do we have planned?

Mac and iPhone Accessibility, Martin Pilkington
Making your application accessible should be as important as making it not crash. This talk will give a brief over view of VoiceOver, the Accessibility Tools and some tips on how to make your Mac or iPhone application much more accessible with just 15 minutes work.

Making a Simple Core Animation Component, Dave Verwer
Learn how to build a simple Core Animation based component in 15 minutes. Dip into some of the techniques that were needed to build a simple dial style score board component using CALayer objects.

We also have two copies of Acorn and VoodooPad to give away at this meeting thanks to the generosity and general awesomeness of Gus over at Flying Meat Software. Thanks very much Gus!

The meeting will be held at 7pm on Monday 12th October and again the BBC are kindly hosting us at BBC Manchester, Oxford Road. If you would like to attend, please sign up!

If you would like to attend the meeting, it is important to sign up so that we can let the venue know who is coming. The BBC building is not a public building so if you don’t sign up you won’t be able to get in!