At last weeks Sydney CocoaHeads, barely 24 hours after WatchKit was released, I thought it would be a good idea to demo a little app I wrote to control a wifi-controlled light globe from LIFX. It went surprisingly ok! Hope you enjoy it. For those wondering about the NDA, we tend to agree with Ray Wenderlich and Craig Hockenberry, that “Since the Ap…

At the 2014 August CocoaHeads meetup in Sydney we were verty fortunate to have Manuel Chakravarty give us a talk titled “Swift—Adopting functional programming”. Manuel is an internationally renowned expert on functional programming based here in Sydney. Manuel is this year’s program chair of ICFP (The International Conference on Functional Programm…

CocoaHeads new injection Lawrence Lomax not only has the third best name after Max Power and Scott Speed, he gave a great talk titled “Super! Awesome! Functional! Reactive! with ReactiveCocoa!”. Apparently it’s something to do with cats.Av markaufflick

Craig Stanford walks us through the basics of layer masking – using a monochromatic CALayer as as content mask for another CALayer. Music: What’s that Sound, by 20 Riverside from the Podsafe Music Network.Av markaufflick

Introduction to Instruments by AnthonyEgerton. Introduction to Instruments Presentation, recorded at Cocoaheads Sydney 13th September 2012.Av markaufflick

At the March Sydney CocoaHeads Cameron Barrie (@whalec) gave a great talk on his approach to custom UIKit interface development. Forgive us for the poor quality audio and video – our technology for that month was a Logitech webcam.Av markaufflick