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CocoaConf Chicago: Schedule

Thursday, March 7

8:30-5:30 All Day iOS Tutorial James Dempsey iPad Productivity APIs workshop Chris Adamson iOS 2D Game Development Workshop Josh Smith

Friday, March 8

8:00-9:00 Registration, Breakfast, and Opening Remarks
9:00-10:00 Jenkins - Your personal butler for continuous integration and project automation in iOS Ben Scheirman Scalable Cloud Apps That Won't Keep You Up At Night Aaron Douglas NSPredicates For Fun and Profit Josh Smith
10:00-10:15 Break
10:15-11:15 Building a Prototype: there's a tool for every task. Ben Lachman Zen And The Intro To iOS Gesture Recognizers Jonathan Penn iOS Debugging Dave Koziol
11:15-11:30 Break
11:30-12:30 What was I thinking? Brandon Alexander Architecting Apps for Mac: Blueprints & Best Practices Brittany Tarvin It's All in the Tools Nathan Eror
12:30-1:15 Lunch
1:15-1:45 We Made An App For That
1:45-2:15 Women in Technology: Moving our story to the main thread Brittany Tarvin
2:15-2:30 Break
2:30-3:30 How to validate your iOS App using Xcode Instruments: A reusable approach to UI Automation Elizabeth Taylor Sand In My Shoes: Sandboxing Your Mac Apps Boisy Pitre Getting to Know Core Data Whitney Young
3:30-3:45 Break
3:45-4:45 Getting started with CocoaPods Peter Kananen Super Rad Brainstorming! Jaimee Newberry Getting Pushy Dave Koziol
4:45-5:00 Break
5:00-6:00 Accessible to All: Designing Apps for Everyone Charles Perry Less code, more fulfilling. Daniel Steinberg Effective iOS Network Programming with AFNetworking Ben Scheirman
6:00-7:00 Dinner
7:00-8:00 A Pocketful of Patterns Daniel Steinberg

Saturday, March 9

8:00-9:00 Breakfast
9:00-10:30 Advanced Behavior and Performance Testing With UI Automation Jonathan Penn Mobile Movies with HTTP Live Streaming Chris Adamson High Performance Computing for All: Using Apple's Accelerate Framework in Your Apps Jeff Biggus
10:30-10:45 Break
10:45-12:15 Blocks Jeff Biggus Core Audio in iOS 6 Chris Adamson Finding your way with MapKit and Solr Christopher Judd
12:15-1:00 Lunch
1:00-2:30 Reverse Q&A Panel Chris Adamson
2:30-2:45 Break
2:45-3:45 iOS Connectathon with Windows Azure Mobile Services Josh Twist OH MY CLIENTS! Jaimee Newberry DSLs and Extension Languages Josh Smith
3:45-4:00 Break
4:00-5:00 Changing the Rules of the Game: Objective-C Runtime Manipulation Whitney Young Storyboards - This time it's personal Daniel Steinberg Sending Feedback to Apple - An Insider’s Guide James Dempsey
5:00-5:15 Break
5:15-5:30 Closing Remarks