{"id":119,"date":"2015-06-29T02:09:31","date_gmt":"2015-06-29T01:09:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.powered-up-games.com\/wordpress\/?p=119"},"modified":"2016-01-29T09:52:26","modified_gmt":"2016-01-29T08:52:26","slug":"croydon-tech-city-programming-surgery","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/powered-up-games.com\/blog\/wordpress\/archives\/119","title":{"rendered":"Croydon Tech City programming surgery"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>On Thursday, I started a new monthly <a href=\"http:\/\/www.croydontechcity.com\/\">Croydon Tech City<\/a> event. I&#8217;ve scheduled this event for 19:00 to 21:00 on the last Thursday of the month at Matthews Yard. The programming surgery is a chance for local programmers to get help with their programming problems from local professionals.<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p>That&#8217;s not to say those of us that work locally as professional programmers will have the necessary expertise. But, <em>hopefully<\/em>, we&#8217;ll have enough experience to know where to look. This was mostly the case on Thursday as neither myself nor Marc had much current experience with the <a href=\"https:\/\/developer.apple.com\/xcode\/interface-builder\/\">xcode&#8217;s interface builder<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Objective-C\">Objective-C<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Nevertheless, we managed to:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>align elements to the containing window<\/li>\n<li>make a button to print out a message<\/li>\n<li>make a slider control that prints its value<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><\/ins><\/p>\n<p>I learned a lot about interface programming in xcode. We also talked about source control options for backup and as a way for us to share source files between events. But the one problem we were unable to solve was to do with a software development package that appeared to have some missing files. Hopefully we&#8217;ll be able to work around that problem next time.<\/p>\n<p>If you have a technical problem and you&#8217;d like some help or if you&#8217;re interested in helping out at our next event, you can <a href=\"mailto:paul.sinnett@gmail.com\">contact me by email<\/a> or <a href=\"http:\/\/twitter.com\/paulsinnett\">tweet me<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On Thursday, I started a new monthly Croydon Tech City event. I&#8217;ve scheduled this event for 19:00 to 21:00 on the last Thursday of the month at Matthews Yard. The programming surgery is a chance for local programmers to get help with their programming problems from local professionals.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[22,21,20,19],"class_list":["post-119","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-programming","tag-matthews-yard","tag-objective-c","tag-tech-city","tag-xcode"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/powered-up-games.com\/blog\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/119","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/powered-up-games.com\/blog\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/powered-up-games.com\/blog\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/powered-up-games.com\/blog\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/powered-up-games.com\/blog\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=119"}],"version-history":[{"count":14,"href":"https:\/\/powered-up-games.com\/blog\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/119\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":194,"href":"https:\/\/powered-up-games.com\/blog\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/119\/revisions\/194"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/powered-up-games.com\/blog\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=119"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/powered-up-games.com\/blog\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=119"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/powered-up-games.com\/blog\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=119"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}