Note: We have a new class scheduled for June 16-18 in New York w/ Jeff LaMarche

I am really pleased to announce that we are planning a New York City version of the iPhone SDK development training class I've been working on with Intrinsic Development and About Objects.

This course will be held February 17-19 in New York City. We will have the rest of the details soon. In the mean time please Contact Me if you have any questions or comments.

The course focuses on the essentials of Objective-C and Cocoa Touch. Learn the tools, the libraries, the concepts, and the best ways to get things done, with plenty of hands-on exercises to reinforce it all. Topics include:

• Cocoa Touch Design Patterns: Accelerate your learning by discovering how Apple leverages Model-View-Controller and other key design patterns.
• Work with Table Views: Create data source and delegate methods to present and manage your application's data in table views.
• Manage Navigation: Learn to use Apple's navigation controller, tab bar controller, and other UIKit view components to implement navigation in your app.
• Handle Multi-Touch Gestures: Manage standard UI controls and custom components correctly in response to user input.
• Custom Drawing: Learn to use Core Graphics and Core Animation to customize UI components, display and manipulate images, and provide rich animation for graphical elements.
• Persist Application Data and UI State: Discover easy and efficient techniques for storing and retrieving information.
• System Events: You'll learn how to take advantage of the iPhone's built- in accelerometers and other system resources for accessing system events.
• Memory Management: Learn how to manage memory using retain counts and autorelease pools, while avoiding common pitfalls.
• Integrate with Core Services: Integrate your application with Address Book, Maps, Safari, Mail, and other iPhone apps and services.
• Design for Modularity: Take advantage of dynamic loading to reduce complexity, improve performance, and ease maintenance.
• Performance Monitoring and Debugging: Use Apple's Instruments utility and the GNU debugger (gdb) to isolate and fix problems and to eliminate hot spots and memory leaks.

The cost is $1749 for three full days of focused intensive dedicated Cocoa Touch (iPhone / iPod Touch) training.

Hope to see you there.

Registration for this class is now closed. Please let us know if you are interested in another class or custom training. Thanks.