Just dropped in on Simon Maddox who is doing a session on an introduction to the iPhone SDK. His name might sound familiar cos he came into our office for a chat the other day!! I make know claims that I will understand any of this bu some of it might rub off so here goes…
Objective C… the best way to learn this, according to Simon, is doing the course on iTunes U. Well he’s a Simon so he MUST know what he’s talking about. Apparently the course is produced by Stanford University and this, he tells us, is a good place to start! The best book is Cocoa Programming for Mac OSX and is good for iPhone even though this says it’s for Mac OSX…. also iPhone in Action and it’s his favourite iPhone development book. I wonder if he’s on comission. Well I’m still on batteries with only 40% left so lets crack on! ooh more books Begining iPhone 3 Development book fans!
Wow… the guy in front has a Kindle… nice!
Now we’re on to x-code and we’re looking at the quickstart guide that comes with it. He’s starting to go through how to use it… hold on tight… Hey there are drag and drop elements and it explains the use of each object and you can drag and drop on to your stage and then… oh there’s code 😦 Man I’m lost already… Maybe I’ll Facebook for a bit…
Just glanced up and there is more code and he seems to be speaking a foreign language…. sh*t this is an hour long sessions and I’m confused after 15 minutes… what to do…. twitter maybe, followed by flickr?
Hmmm the guy next to me (a recruitment consultant and the only guy here wearing a suit) has just upped and left which is a little rude, but is it as rude as Facebooking in a session?
Interestingly Simon has created this app that I just downloaded that tells you the geographical phone number for any 0870 or other premum rate phone number. More about that on his blog here. Now he’s talking about strings and ‘hello worlds’ and command lines. I’m trying to look like I know what he’s on about and nodding sagely… another one bites the dust but I can’t leave cos I’m too far into the room. 30% battery left and another 2 people have walked out…
Tom Leitch from BBC World Service is here and he looks like he understands it all and there go another 2 people. Maybe I’ll start counting how many people are left… maybe not. A guy behind me just smiled knowingly, surely he can’t read what I’m typing from there… how embarassing!
Looking around I thought that the people with laptops open were either blogging or looking at the back channel but more people are on Facebook and Twitter…
Just posted an expression of my confusion on Twitter and I’ve had a reply from tenbus_uk declaring his own confusion, but he’s in 311. Still… a kindred spirit!
The session is broken up briefly by someone dragging a trolley outside the window.
No one has left the room for 10 minutes.
25 minutes left of the session.
24% of battery left
The battery icon has gone red
I’ve lost the will to live…
How can I escape….
They photographers have arrived, better look interested and intellegent!
Interesting… London iPhone developers group meeting at the Apple Store on the 7th October.
We lost some and just gained one and there is more clanking outside… I think this will be my last session today. Simon is taking questions from the floor from people who know a lot about stuff and he’s giving well structured answers.
I’m going to sign off now but thanks for reading (all the people at work!!) and I hope to blog a little from TEDx in Manchester next week.