Wocoa in Frankfurt

Posted by dom Sat, 25 Mar 2006 21:07:00 GMT

TheCodingMonkeys have been regular attendees at the European WebObjects and Cocoa Developer Community Pow Wows.

In fact we even demoed a pre-release version of SubEthaEdit at the Pow Wow in Spring 2003. Although the majority of attendees has historically been WebObjects developers lately the tide is changing. As WebObjects has been more or less put into maintenance mode by Apple more and more Cocoa developers are attending.

The next Pow Wow is in Frankfurt on Saturday, April 8th 2006, from 12:00 to 22:00. If you're interested send an email to smokesignal@wocoa.org to get more details.

A typical Wocoa consists of many 15-30 minute talks about interesting stuff the attendees are working on. The schedule is formed in the early hours of the Pow Wow and is an open list, you are very welcome to give short talk spontaneously. And usually there is room outside the presentation room where developers can gather, talk, have provided beverages and nice conversations.

All three of us will be attending, among the Cocoa developing attendees in the past have been: Alexander von Below, Oliver Breidenbach of Boinx, Stefanie Höfling of Big Nerd Ranch Europe, Heiko Kretschmer, Marcus Müller.

See you there!

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SubEthaEdit at Etech

Posted by map Sun, 19 Mar 2006 20:28:00 GMT

Back in 2003, a few weeks after we released SubEthaEdit 1.0 (which actually wasn't called SubEthaEdit, but that's a different story), O'Reilly's Emerging Technology Conference was held in San Diego.

To our surprise SubEthaEdit seemed to be an instant hit for those making notes during the conference sessions. Some even blogged their experience with that kind of editing and provided very valuable insights into the process and feature ideas. Someone even invited us to "come over for a beer" assuming we'd be located in California... ;)

In hindsight Etech also proved to be the first big scale installation of SubEthaEdit clients connected via a less-than-optimal network and therefore helped us to eradicate a few nasty bugs in the networking area.

So why am I rambling about an old story from 2003 you might ask? Well, just to point out how much I like SubEthaEdit usage at Conferences (if the WiFi works at all) and that this year's ETech generated some really good SubEthaEdit notes again. Check them out if you are interested in technological innovation.

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