Developer Ignite 2 was nearly two weeks ago. It was a load of fun to present, and lose my voice afterwards. I’m honored that I was able to present again with a panel of very awesome presenters. Heck, I even learned a few things…

All the presentations were recorded, and are available on Intel’s Developer Ignite Site. But, you’re all here to see me, and here is my 5 minutes of information is all it’s glory:

One of my favorite things to do is share knowledge. Events like Developer Ignite and Desert Code Camp have quickly become events that I look forward to all the time.

I’ll be presenting several topics at these next events:

November 7th @ Desert Code Camp

• HTML5 – Where have you been all this time?
  I’ll be showing some of the new technologies that are available in HTML 5 such as browser databases, location awareness and of course, the new set of HTML tags

• CSS3 – Behind the website
  My last presentation, CSS Sucks, went off pretty well at the last Desert Code Camp, so, we’ll move to the next generation of Web technologies and move the web to the current millenium

• Javascript – The untold story
  Javascript is a really powerful, awesome language. The fact that it’s bundled in browsers helps and hurts Javascript’s rap quite a bit. We’ll go over the fundamentals of what you can do with javascript, building up to using it for more than a couple of functions

• Blocks – It’s what’s for Dinner
  Blocks are the latest addition to the Objective C language. While function pointers have existed in C for a long time, Blocks are sightly different in that they follow the rules for closures a little better. This talk will go over the fundamentals of closures and and how they are implemented in Objective C

November 11th
In addition to these, I’ll be giving a Lightning Talk at Developer Ignite 2
I’ll be discussing Refactoring Databases.

November 11th
And, one more thing, I’ll be giving a Unit Testing Demo a the ASU IEEE meeting. I hope to start the careers of future developers off right by showing them how easy and awesome unit testing really is!

I’m looking forward to these events, and contributing to the community which has helped me grow as a developer over the past couple of years. See you there!

Since I’ve become an indie developer, I’ve been able to do more and more of the things I’ve wanted to better interact with the local Cocoa community. One of the staples of most thriving Cocoa developer communities is NSCoder Night. While we still have Cocoaheads meetings and Phoenix iPhone meetings those are geared for prepared content and are set for once a month. NSCoder Nights are Weekly, and geared toward writing code with your friends and fellow Cocoa Developers. If you are new to the platform, bring your questions and get answers from some very knowledgeable developers.

In the Phoenix Area, we’re starting these at Liberty Market in Gilbert. Phoenix is very spread out, so we’ll probably start migrating the location if there is enough interest.

When: Every Tuesday Night, from 6-9pm
Where: Liberty Market
230 N Gilbert Road
Gilbert, AZ
Bring: Your laptop and code

See you at the next NSCoderNight!

Normally, I don’t blog about the regular monthly user group meetings around the Phoenix area which I attend. There are places for that already. However, I’ve been working on my first iPhone app for nearly two weeks, dabbling mostly with the MPMediaPlayer framework. I figured I would earn some good kahrma points by sharing what the things I’ve learned in this time. So, with that, I’m going to be giving a short presentation on the Media Player framework from the latest iPhone SDK (that isn’t under NDA).

Come meet me and other local iPhone developers, we don’t bite, really :)

Phoenix iPhone Developer Group
When: Wednesday, August 5, 2009, 6:30 – 8:30pm

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I’ve never been to this type of event, but just a reminder that Phoenix Dev House starts at 7pm tonight!

I’m not sure what to expect. However, I’m going to be heading over to Gangplank tonight to get some development done or shared, or whatever. Come join me, and say Hi

Coming fresh off Desert Code Camp, I signed up for a small event inspired by the Ignite movement, called Developer Ignite. The format is similar, 5 minutes, 20 slides, and a topic. The scope is a bit narrower however, as this event is aimed at the technical community. All technologies should be represented, from Javascript to C to Ruby. I’m eager to see what the other presenters have in store for us.

My presentation is dubbed HTML5 + CSS3 = awesome. I’m by no means an expert in either technology, so this will be a learning endeavor for me as well as for the rest of the attendees. I find that signing up to present topics to which I know little to nothing about really motivates me to learn something in a real hurry. It’s good for someone like me who tends to analyze many data points before proceeding.

Either way, this should be a fun event, even if it’s not as large at the regular ignite series.

Developer Ignite is being held at Gangplank on Wednesday July 22. Stop by and say hi!