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		<title>Great Cocoa conference on the other side of the Atlantic</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[The Mac Developer Network with Steve Scott(Scotty) and Tim Isted are hosting a great conference, called NSConference, in UK this week. I wish I could be there as well, but it is a bit of a hike for me to be there in person. It would be great if they can make some of the [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><a href="http://www.mac-developer-network.com/">The Mac Developer Network</a> with Steve Scott(Scotty) and Tim Isted are hosting a great conference, called NSConference, in UK this week. I wish I could be there as well, but it is a bit of a hike for me to be there in person. It would be great if they can make some of the materials available online after the show.</p>

<p><a href="http://www.nsconference.com/index.html" style="display:block;margin-left:auto; margin-right:auto; width:468px; "><img src="http://www.nsconference.com/images/nsconferencebanner.jpg" alt="NSConference 16-17th April 2009, Hatfield, UK" /></a>
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<p>The quality of the <a href="http://www.nsconference.com/sessions/index.html">listed session topics</a> are very high, and those are definitely not the same sort of information you can find in the upcoming <a href="http://developer.apple.com/wwdc/sessions/">WWDC 2009</a>. Amongst them, the below 2 sessions sounded especially interesting to me: (along with my humble suggestions for additional content)</p>

<p><strong>Designing and Developing Custom Cocoa Controls (Matt Gemmell):</strong> There is surprisingly very little information in the form of guidelines, best practices on this topic for both Cocoa and Cocoa Touch programming. Matt Gemmell has quite a few <a href="http://mattgemmell.com/source">open source controls</a>, so I am sure it would be great to hear about his experience. Even though it is not mentioned in his abstract, I hope that he can also touch a little bit on building Interface Builder plugins for those custom controls. But if not, <a href="http://developer.apple.com/documentation/DeveloperTools/Conceptual/IBPlugInGuide/Introduction/Introduction.html">the Apple docs</a> on IBPlugin are comprehensive as well.</p>

<p><strong>Foundations of Objective-C (Andre Pang): </strong>The best way to really master a language/framework is to go deep into its inner workings. Especially meta-programming is a very powerful tool, once you understand the underlying object model and runtime of that language. Frameworks like Core Data are built on top of the meta-programming principles. It would also be great to also briefly compare it to either Ruby or Python. There is also a pretty interesting screencast from <a href="http://peepcode.com/">PeepCode</a> titled <a href="https://peepcode.com/products/objective-c-for-rubyists">Objective C for Rubyists</a> that approaches Objective C from the perspective of Ruby.</p>
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