Upcoming Boston mobile meetups
When/Where: Monday, January 31 at the Park Plaza Hotel
What: Mobile Monday Boston demo night of apps created by local Boston developers. The slots are filling up fast, so if you want to present you should send us an email at info [at] momoboston [dot] com.
Tech Tuesday
When/Where: Tuesday, January 11, 2011 6:00 PM – 8:00 PM, Microsoft NERD
What: Join your fellow geeks, tech savvy professionals, investors and other industry luminaries for this informal gathering showcasing mobile apps/devices & platforms — did we mention free pizza and a drink?
Boston Android Developers Group
When/Where: Monday January 10th/alternating Mondays; 7PM to 11PM; thoughtbot office, 41 Winter St 3rd Fl / Boston, MA
What:
Hackfests happen on alternating Mondays. Typically five to twenty people show, and people do things ranging from installing Eclipse and the Android SDK to writing a widget to exploring alternative SDKs to upgrading their phone—not to mention the networking and socializing. We will be writing code so bring a laptop and enthusiasm. For those without a project idea we have a short, simple project that everyone can contribute to. New developers welcome!
When/Where: Thursday, January 13, 2011 19:00 at MIT Building E51/Room 395, room E51-376 in Cambridge
What: The Boston CocoaHeads / MassMacDevs group meets once a month at the standard CocoaHeads time: 2nd Thurday at 7:00PM. Our usual meeting place is at building E51, room E51-376 on the MIT campus in Cambridge.
Strange things are afoot at the Circle-K
If you’re not aware the FCC narrowly voted in net neutrality regulations today [FCC PDF statement] that IMHO aren’t a great solution for the consumer. This new regulation creates two classes of internet, wired & wireless, which in the long term look likely to allow carriers to charge per service. While I do believe that mobile is the future and it does seem more protected under this regulation there is no way I’m going to pay more for my wired NetFlix traffic. I’m sure this regulation probably makes sense to the Republicans who are protecting the big telcos right now, but really, they’re just going to push people like me over to wireless services like Clear (which I assume is covered under wireless??) and actually, maybe that’s not so bad.
Coverage:
- Engadget
- TechCrunch
- All Things D (scribd statement/dissent docs)
IOS 4.2, RFC 3339, and NSDateFormatter
With the IOS 4.2 update I started getting nulls. After a bit of research on RFC 3339 and the Unicode date format it seems that this should never have worked, my format string “yyyy-MM-dd’T'HH:mm:ssZZ” should never have correctly parsed the colon in the timezone according to the documentation. The fix thanks to Stack Overflow uses mwaterfall’s NSDate+InternetDateTime class to correctly parse RFC 3339 dates.
On to the next feature.
Hello World
Finally back up and at ‘em.