September 10, 2015

September announcements

    • Local

      • NSCoder Boston -- Thursday, September 17-- 41 Winter Street in Boston

      • NSHappyHour -- Lobster Shanty in Salem on October 7

      • Next CocoaHeads meeting is in Room 325 on October 8.

      • CocoaConf Boston - September 18-19 in Peabody, MA

      • Twitter Boston is having a “meet Twitter” event on Wednesday, September 23 at their office here in Cambridge:

    • Conferences outside the area

      • 360|iDev Min - October 5-6 in Greenville, South Carolina

    • Release Notes - October 21-23 in Indianapolis. http://releasenotes.tv/

Speakers

    • Ayal Spitz - Generic Returns in Swift

      • https://twitter.com/aspitz

    • Matt Bridges (https://twitter.com/rrridges), Logan Wright (https://www.linkedin.com/in/loganwright1): iBeacon

      • Background discovery using Bluetooth (iBeacon broadcasts only in foreground)

        • Finishing an Open Source library for this

        • Music application: Qup <https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/qup-fill-your-party-music./id943986747?mt=8>

        • Presentation slides attached.

    • Brian King, Bluetooth library

        • https://twitter.com/kingofbrian

        • RZBluetooth - https://github.com/Raizlabs/RZBluetooth

        • Encapsulates bluetooth commands, exploring state in a simple library (Simplify Core Bluetooth, Support Developer Friendly APIs, Enable Unit Testing and Hardware Prototyping)

        • Separate unit testing podspec in project

        • Recommend: LightBlue Explorer (looks for bluetooth devices) - https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/lightblue-explorer-bluetooth/id557428110?mt=8

  • Sofiya Semenova: creating and branding inclusive hacker communities

    • https://twitter.com/actualsofiya and @novasofiya

    • Codestellation - Hackathon at Brandeis. Next one in November.

    • http://codestellation.io

Attendance: 4 + 15 + 12 + 8 = 39