[MacTUG] [Fwd: ICR Technology Update Session, Thursday, January 24, 2008]

[Ian Turner]

FYI

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Subject: ICR Technology Update Session, Thursday, January 24, 2008
Date: Wed, 09 Jan 2008 15:49:22 -0500
From: Vera Korody <vkorody at uwaterloo.ca>
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Technology Update Session

Software Development on Mac OXS Leopard

By:	Steve Hayman
	National Consulting Engineer, Education Team
	Apple Canada Inc.

Date:	Thursday, January 24, 2008
Time:	2:30 p.m.
Place:	University of Waterloo, Davis Centre, Room DC 1302

Abstract:
Apple and ICR invite you to a Technology Update Session. Waterloo
alumnus Steve Hayman will provide a look at the command line, compilers,
scripting environments, open source tools, etc. During the presentation,
Steve will discuss or demonstrate:

- Automator and why it reminds me of Unix pipelines
- Applescript, why it is either a great programming tool or a mutant
language from the moon
- Xcode and Interface Builder for creating applications
- Reusable frameworks included in OS X - how you can reuse our stuff to
get a head start

Watch and learn as he builds something with Xcode and Interface Builder
and maybe a small amount of Objective-C.  Depending on luck, this
involves an inadvertent demo of the debugger as well.

Bio:
Steve is a National Consulting Engineer with Apple's Education Team
based in Toronto, specializing in Apple's developer tools and UNIX core.
Prior to Apple, Steve worked with that other Steve at NeXT Computer,
where he first fell in love with the combination of powerful
object-oriented development tools and a great Unix core; before that  he
was Network Manager at Indiana University; before that he picked up  an
M.Math at Waterloo and worked for the Math Faculty Computing  Facility,
before that he had a summer job painting construction  equipment. Steve
is delighted that Apple's blend of Unix and OO is reaching many more
users than NeXT's tools ever did, and although he enjoys a good "vi vs.
emacs" argument as much as any Unix geek, he's even more intrigued with
what you can do with strong OO tools and  libraries. Steve is
particularly fond of the WebKit open source objects included in Mac OS X
10.5 and has built and thrown away dozens of different web browsers as a
result.