CocoaHeads Feb

# February CocoaHeads Meeting!

The next [Philly CocoaHeads](http://phillycocoa.org) meeting will be Thursday, February 17th 7-9pm at [Indy Hall](http://indyhall.org). Post-meeting drinks commence afterwords; [National Mechanics](http://www.nationalmechanics.com/) is our usual hangout.

You'll need to be buzzed up, but if you are having any trouble feel free to call MikeZ's cell (267-563-0616) and we'll be sure to get you in.

Pizza and refreshments will be provided by our sponsor, The Neat Company. Be sure to thank them.

**Please [RSVP for the February 2011 meeting](https://spreadsheets.google.com/a/phillycocoa.org/viewform?hl=en&ndplr=1&formkey=dEQ2OUNzaHg4Qm1uaDJ1RHNVWklfSlE6MA#gid=0).**

## Sponsor: The Neat Company

A very special thank you to The Neat Company for sponsoring this month's CocoaHeads meeting.

> [The Neat Company](http://www.neatco.com) is hiring! We're an innovative technology company headquartered in Philadelphia. Our scanners and software solutions are defining the digital filing cabinet category by reducing paper clutter and organizing your information. Learn more about our open positions for web, mobile, and desktop development here:
> 
> <http://www.neatco.com/our-company/careers/jobs>
> 
> If you have the experience and the passion, we want you on our team.

We have some of Neat's hardware at IndyHall if you are ever curious. Additionally, Neat's own Joe Walsh will be at the meeting to answer any questions in addition to doing a technical presentation on using Instruments.

## Meeting Agenda

### Introductions & Group Business

* New site is live. What's next?
* Global Game Jam recap.
* Do we want to do anything for [Philly Tech Week](http://www.phillytechweek.com/)?
* Interest in a movie / coder / office hours night?

### Xcode 4 Roundtable

Love is in the air (Happy Valentine's Day!) and to celebrate we will have a group discussion of what's new in Xcode 4: the things we love and things we love to hate.

### Show and Tell

In addition to being an open mic to demo new apps or code, Show and Tell also invites people to bring problems or design issues they are encountering in current projects.

### Using Instruments

Per member request, Joe Walsh will be doing a tech talk on the useful but sometimes daunting developer tool known as Instruments. In this talk, Joe will focus on the basics of tracking down memory leaks, performance hogs and help you find those key settings that turn the results into something human readable.

### Implementing VoiceOver

After exchanging emails with a blind user of his iPhone app, Mike Zornek spent some time learning what VoiceOver is all about. Today, Mike will first demo VoiceOver use in general and then more specifically review the deficiencies of his iOS app and how he fixed them (some fixes more obvious than others).

## About CocoaHeads

PhillyCocoa is a Philadelphia area Mac and iPhone programming group, a chapter of the worldwide [CocoaHeads](http://cocoaheads.org). All skill levels are welcome. The only requirement is an interest in Apple-related technologies and moderate tolerance for geeking out.

We hold our CocoaHeads group meetings on the second Thursday of every month at [Indy Hall](http://www.indyhall.org). Meeting details and iCal feed can be found on the [Philadelphia CocoaHeads chapter page](http://cocoaheads.org/us/PhiladelphiaPennsylvania/index.html).

We are always looking for feedback and suggestions on what topics to discuss at our meetings. We have a [public writeroom](http://123.writeboard.com/3jvysl5u8nmzfeox/login) (password is "password") where we try to keep tabs on what people are interested in hearing about. Feel free to append your own ideas, especially if you are interested in speaking.

Group website: <http://phillycocoa.org>