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SecondConf 2012 Pre-Party Meetup Info

Last year’s pre-party went so well, I’m going to try to coordinate one this year too.  

Last year, the Thursday before SecondConf about 16 folks (mostly local & a few out of towers that got in early), gathered at Duke of Perth for a great time and great Scotch (the Duke is a great Scotch bar).

I just wanted to give folks a heads up and ask you to follow me (@ChicagoBob) or SecondConf (@SecondConf).  About 3 weeks before SecondConf, I’ll be asking for a headcount of folks interested in attending a pre-party, and will let everyone know the final plans then, we might try to go back to Duke of Perth, or try some place new - stay tuned.

PS: include disclaimer.h, the pre-party is extra and not part of ScondConf.

May Chicago CocoaHeads link-o-rama

Major Skype Security Flaw:

http://www.loopinsight.com/2011/05/09/skype-for-mac-requires-manual-update-to-fix-security-vulnerability/

Greenspun on

PlayBook: http://philip.greenspun.com/wireless/playbook “Not useful as a computer; too light to serve as a doorstop.”

Xoom: http://philip.greenspun.com/wireless/motorola-xoom “The Motorola shareholders should be rioting.”

What’s Wrong with RIMM

http://mobileopportunity.blogspot.com/2010/10/whats-really-wrong-with-blackberry-and.html

Andy Ihnatko on PlayBook and LG G-Slate

http://www.suntimes.com/technology/ihnatko/4959481-452/are-the-blackberry-playbook-and-lg-g-slate-ready-to-take-on-ipad2.html

Fraser on large iPad trial at Oklahoma State

http://speirs.org/blog/2011/5/5/ipad-trials-at-oklahoma-state.html

Presenting a Mac dialog sheet with visual cue effects

http://cocoawithlove.com/2011/05/presenting-mac-dialog-sheet-with-visual.html

Craig Hockenberry on his disappointment on working with the open source community re: Chameleon

http://furbo.org/2011/04/19/a-disappointment/

Working with the Chaos Monkey

http://www.codinghorror.com/blog/2011/04/working-with-the-chaos-monkey.html

Cheap Magic (why do some app’s UI’s just click for some people or not)

http://betterelevation.com/2011/04/23/cheap-magic/ 

SSD’s and the HOT / Crazy scale

http://www.codinghorror.com/blog/2011/05/the-hot-crazy-solid-state-drive-scale.html

Intel 3D transistor gates

http://arstechnica.com/business/news/2011/05/intel-re-invents-the-microchip.ars

Sony Playstation Fiasco

http://arstechnica.com/gaming/news/2011/05/billion-dollar-psn-outage-may-not-be-fully-remedied-until-may-31.ars

http://arstechnica.com/gaming/news/2011/05/hirai-update.ars

AirPush: how much do people like push ads on their phones?

http://www.martinadamek.com/2011/04/28/apndroid-is-suspended-on-the-android-market/

Core Data Model Merging headaches (and how cool it is when it works)

http://www.red-sweater.com/blog/1862/core-data-model-merging

Why Can’t the New Guy Code (“I can guarantee you, without fear of contradiction, that no software engineer will ever have to write a binary search after they are hired.”)

http://techcrunch.com/2011/05/07/why-the-new-guy-cant-code/

Apple is DOOMED (again!), Jean Louis Gassee

http://www.mondaynote.com/2011/05/01/carnival-barker-edition-show-me-your-ios-licensing-certificate/

iPhone Location db fiasco

http://arstechnica.com/apple/news/2011/04/apple-posts-qa-on-iphone-location-hubbub-will-issue-software-update.ars

Apple Q&A response to Location db 

http://www.apple.com/pr/library/2011/04/27location_qa.html

Why you should encrypt your iPhone backups (it will save passwords for you)

http://www.marco.org/2011/04/20/iphone-records-tower-locations

The Dishonest Minority

http://www.schneier.com/blog/archives/2011/05/status_report_t.html

Fuck You Tiny Wings :-)

http://log.maniacalrage.net/post/4934647157/fuck-you-tiny-wings

TextMate: Text Editor Intervention

http://chipotle.tumblr.com/post/5207966724/text-editor-intervention

Fraser on eBook pricing disconnect with consumers (I AGREE, my brain works that way)

http://speirs.org/blog/2011/5/4/on-ebook-pricing.html

Apple vs. Samsung

http://thisismynext.com/2011/04/19/apple-sues-samsung-analysis/

http://thisismynext.com/2011/04/29/samsung-sues-apple-infringing-10-patents-closer/

http://peanutbuttereggdirt.com/e/2011/05/03/apple-vs-samsung-a-visual-guide-to-apples-ip-claims-hardware-icons-packaging/

http://www.appleoutsider.com/2011/04/19/samsung/

Super Soaker Magazine clips

http://arstechnica.com/gaming/news/2011/05/super-soaker-introduces-a-new-wrinkle-to-squirt-guns-magazines.ars

Atlas Shrugged movie review

There are two novels that can change a bookish fourteen-year old’s life: The Lord of the Rings and Atlas Shrugged. One is a childish fantasy that often engenders a lifelong obsession with its unbelievable heroes, leading to an emotionally stunted, socially crippled adulthood, unable to deal with the real world. The other, of course, involves orcs.

source Kung Fu Monkey (from some random “funny” email)

Chicago CocoaHeads April 2011 Link-o-Rama

Various links from the past month that I thought were intesresting that I posted to the groups mailing list:

Gruber: Gap Theory of Design (WebStock ‘11)
http://vimeo.com/21742166

XCode 4 reviews (nowhere near as awesome as Ben’s talk was tonight)
http://www.e-string.com/content/quick-intro-xcode-4
http://pilky.me/view/15

Cocoa Samurai: XCode 4 Keyboard Shortcuts
http://cocoasamurai.blogspot.com/2011/03/xcode-4-keyboard-shortcuts-now.html

Cocoa Samurai: Singletons: You’re doing them wrong (special link just for Dave)
http://cocoasamurai.blogspot.com/2011/04/singletons-your-doing-them-wrong.html

Dave’s C4[3] Unit Testing Preso
http://www.dribin.org/dave/blog/archives/2011/04/05/unit_test_c4/

Neven Mrgan:  What it’s like to share an article from one of these iPad magazines
http://mrgan.tumblr.com/post/4460556800/what-its-like-to-share-an-article-from-one-of-these

What is the single most influential book every programmer should read?
http://stackoverflow.com/questions/1711/what-is-the-single-most-influential-book-every-programmer-should-read

Fuck You. Pay Me.
http://vimeo.com/22053820

Pinboard Blog: anatomy of a crushing
http://pinboard.in/blog/173/

Instagram’s first weekend (hint: EC3 to the rescue):
http://mashable.com/2011/03/30/scaling-instagram/

Mental Blog: on the Usefulness of Core Data’s User Info Dictionary
http://www.mentalfaculty.com/mentalfaculty/Blog/Entries/2011/3/8_On_the_Usefulness_of_Core_Datas_User_Info.html

Why Garage Band on iPad is so awesome
http://90wpm.com/post/3882101006/garage-band

Watch Your Fingers: Slice HD
http://itunes.apple.com/us/app/slice-hd/id420262366

BBum: iOS 4.3: imp_implementationWithBlock()
http://www.friday.com/bbum/2011/03/17/ios-4-3-imp_implementationwithblock/

Gruber on Pricing (what’s wrong with NYT online, but can apply to anyone):
http://daringfireball.net/2011/03/pricing_should_be_simple

World of Goo iPad launch statistics
http://2dboy.com/2011/02/08/ipad-launch/

WTF? Toyota sponsoring a theme in Cydia marketplace (then pulling it)
http://daringfireball.net/linked/2011/04/05/toyota-modmyi

Epic’s Tim Sweeny on mobile gaming (iOS vs. Android, what do you think, duh! :-)
http://daringfireball.net/linked/2011/04/05/epic

Farming vs. Mining
http://blog.wilshipley.com/2011/04/success-and-farming-vs-mining.html

POW: 37 Signals new Node.js easy deployment for Rails and Rack apps
http://pow.cx/