Last night, we held the second Cocoaheads meeting in Roast on the Lisburn Road. Coffee was not bad, bagel was gorgeous.
Present was: Aidan Rogers, Edward McCaughan, Matt Johnston.
We discussed:
- Our coding: Not much had progressed since SyncBridge came out. Edward expressed some frustration in getting stuff finished. I think this goes for a lot of open source projects that start. After 1000 lines of code, it starts getting tough.
- Leopard: We discussed Time Machine, Spaces (wondering how it fits in with Expose, Apple-Tab and Hiding apps) , iCal Server (and Darwin Calendar Server), Mail 3 (and how it looks more broken than Mail 2), iChat Theatre, CoreAnimation, XCode 3 (garbage collection, refactoring) and Resolution Independence (an explanation of why it would be desirable).
- The Mac Pro – and how we all want one.
- The winners of the Apple Design Awards and how there were some surprises (iSale) and some non-surprises (TextMate).
- Discussion on Mail 3.0 and what’s really needed is a Camino-esque project for Thunderbird or similar. Something to make it more Mac-like. Email is still as important as it ever was and yet it seems relegated to being an afterthought in favour of more buzzword-compliant protocols (like RSS). We figured we wanted tabbed mail views, Growl notifications, Tagging, great Search, GOOD HTML support, and a suitable license
- We finished up with discussing a putative agenda for next month.
Cocoa 101 Lab Bring a friend (so we can get the numbers up)
- And we discussed Widgets being a future Cocoa Lab. Edward also suggested we might want to work on a group project.