Hi all,
Chicago CocoaHeads / CAWUG is holding our next meeting Tuesday, March
9th, at 7:00 PM at the Apple Store on Michigan Ave. in the 2nd floor
theater.
Agenda:
- NSConference recap
- CoreData Pro & Con
- adjournment to O'Toole's
When:
Tuesday, March 9th, 7:00 PM
Where:
Apple Store Michigan Avenue
679 North Michigan Ave. (at the corner of Huron & Michigan Ave.)
Chicago, IL 60611
http://tinyurl.com/Michigan-Ave-Apple-Store (Google Maps URL)
- Ben on NSConference
Ben Gottlieb (Stand Alone Software - Crosswords app) is going to
recap the awesomeness that was NSConference last month and make all of
us homebodies jealous about what we missed.
- Core Data Pro & Con:
Core Data is pretty awesome, but sometimes you need the speed and
flexibility that direct SQLite access provides. I'll be talking about
how to use Objective-C wrappers around SQLite, when to use them, and
some optimizations you can do to get the most out of SQLite
Recently, Brent Simmons caused a little bit of a firestorm with this
blog post http://inessential.com/2010/02/26/on_switching_away_from_core_data
about switching away from Core Data, and that inspired several
responses:
http://inessential.com/2010/02/26/core_data_post_follow-up_notes
http://rentzsch.tumblr.com/post/414252963/brent-switching-away-from-core-data
http://cocoawithlove.com/2010/02/differences-between-core-data-and.html
http://www.manton.org/2010/02/i_dont_use.html
Ben Gottlieb and Chris Cieslak (Electropuf.com - Buster bus tracking
app) will be discussing the pros & cons of Core Data and when it is
good to use it and when it might be appropriate to consider not using
it as well as some other persistence frameworks, for example:
http://code.google.com/p/flycode/source/browse/trunk/fmdb
http://github.com/hillegass/BNRPersistence
Ben:
Core Data Rocks: Fire and Forget Storage
Chris:
Ok well sometimes you Core Data isn't for you, just use SQLite!
- O'Tooles
We will continue our discussions at our local watering hold Timothy
O'Toole's at 622 Fairbanks (2 blocks east of the store).
Future Meeting Dates:
CocoaHeads: April 13th - 2nd Floor
(7:00-8:00 @ Apple Store, 2nd floor theater)
NSCoder Chicago: March 22nd - 4th Floor
(6:00 - 9:00 @ Apple Store, 4th floor studio)
We also wish to thank the folks who run the theater space at the Apple
store for letting us have our meetings there, and Jonathan 'Wolf'
Rentzsch for helping out so often. Thanks all.
Also, if you are working on a project and would like to talk about it
briefly / promote it, I think it would be fun for people to hear
about other people's projects. Please email me off line and you can
talk at a future meeting or would like a book to review we would
welcome that too.
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