September 20th, 2012
Robots and Pencils taking part in the Calgary International Film Festival
Over the last few years Michael took part in the creation of a documentary centred around the rise of industrial music and more specifically, the band Ministry. The documentary features never-before-seen performance footage and interviews from alt-rock legends including NIN, Tool and Janes Addiction. Awesome stuff- and it’s finally coming to life at this years Calgary International Film Fest.
Read more about it here: https://www.calgaryfilm.com/2012/schedule/film/2446/
Thanks to all who came and supported us at the sans-PG-13 movie about counter culture at it’s finest! Much like the genre it depicts the journey was long and angst-filled but it’s finally ready to rock.
September 19th, 2012
Introducing iPhone / iOS Dev School – Winnipeg Edition
This intensive two day course is designed for those needing to get up to speed fast on iOS.
We load up the course with real life examples; you’ll learn core iOS fundamentals, as well as how to combine them to build a fully functioning, working application worthy of deployment to the App Store. The course aims to show you each step of the development process and give you the foundation you’ll need to tackle your own projects.
September 7th, 2012
Introducing iPhone/iPad Dev Camp Winnipeg – October 26th
Come and learn how to build iPhone Apps!
The dev camp starts at 5:30 Pm and is open to people wanting to learn more about iPhone development, marketing, business models and funding. It features a mix of keynotes and audience events for building both native and web based iPhone Apps.
Who are the speakers?
Jonathan Rasmusson
Jonathan Rasmusson is the author of The Agile Samurai. As a self described teacher who likes to program, Jonathan loves demystifying iPhone application development, and making the complex seem simple. When not coaching his sons’ hockey teams or cycling to work in the throes of a Canadian winter, Jonathan can be found sharing his experiences on iPhone development at his blog, The Agile Warrior.
Paul Thorsteinson
Paul Thorsteinson likes making great things as CTO at Robots and Pencils. He was the lead on Spy vs Spy which sat at #1 in the App Store for over a week. He loves iOS development, cuddles Ruby on Rails, and once had a relationship with .NET but they split up. You can see his work in Spy vs Spy, Catch the Princess, World Explorer for Minecraft, Deco Windshield (yes they run their entire business on their iPad), Anthm, Own This World and too many other apps. If you ask nicely maybe you can test out his Arduino breath-a-lyzer or his compressed air rocket launcher…
Paul will be talking about Remote debugging tools for native ios apps “PonyDebugger” and Core Data Browser. Come check it out!
Interested in becoming one of the Dev Camp Speakers?
Have awesome topics and ideas?
DON’T hesitate!
Contact Michael Sikorsky (mj@robotsandpencils.com) for further discussion.
June 22nd, 2012
iPhone/iOS Dev School 8, Sept 29th & 30th, 2012
This intensive two day course is designed for those needing to get up to speed fast on iOS.
We load up the course with real life examples; you’ll learn core iOS fundamentals, as well as how to combine them to build a fully functioning, working application worthy of deployment to the App Store. The course aims to show you each step of the development process and give you the foundation you’ll need to tackle your own projects.
March 21st, 2012
iPhone/iPad Dev Camp #7 – September 12, 2012
Come and learn how to build iPhone Apps!
The dev camp starts at 3:30 Pm and is open to people wanting to learn more about iPhone development, marketing, business models and funding. It features a mix of keynotes and audience events for building both native and web based iPhone Apps.
Speakers and topics:
Interested in becoming one of the Dev Camp Speakers?
Have awesome topics and ideas?
DON’T hesitate!
Contact Michael Sikorsky (mj@robotsandpencils.com) for further discussion.
More info here: http://yyc.iphonedevcamps.org/iphone-ipad-devcamp-7
February 24th, 2012
Startup School 7 – Coming Soon, Sept 22 & 23, 2012
February 24th, 2012
iPhone/iPad Dev School #7 – May 5 & 6, 2012 – Awesome!
February 24th, 2012
iPhone Dev Camp #6 – March 14, 2012
Come and learn how to build iPhone Apps!
The dev camp starts at 3:30 Pm and is open to people wanting to learn more about iPhone development, marketing, business models and funding. It features a mix of keynotes and audience events for building both native and web based iPhone Apps.
Speakers and topics:
- Paul Thorsteinson- Automating xcode builds, certification with hudson and mechanize
- Brendan Duddridge – iCloud sync with CoreData
- David Anderson – Intro to Blocks and GCD; Objc and Cocoa code conventions
- Jeremy Gale – Stretchable/resizable images, animations, iOS 5 Parent/Child view controllers
- Reuben Lee – Cocos2D Art Asset Utilities
- Kevin Wolff – Rails
- Michael Sikorsky – iOS 5, Airplay, iPhone Business Dev
More info here: http://yyc.iphonedevcamps.org/iphone-dev-camp-6
March 11th, 2010
iPhone Dev Camp #2 – March 13, 2010
Come and learn how to build iPhone Apps!
The dev camp starts at 9am and is open to people wanting to learn more about iPhone development, marketing, business models and funding. It features a mix of keynotes, audience events and an AppsTrack for building both native and web based iPhone Apps.
Register here: http://iphonedevcampyyc.eventbrite.com/
*** UPDATE: Thanks to Jon Lam from BigStack Studios and iPhoenix Fund:
Attendees will also receive source-code from the recently launched iPhone Game, Hottie Hookups – the example App being giving away will show how to create an OpenGL based disco-ball effect shown in these screen shots:
November 30th, 2009
This Week in Calgary (Startups, Tech, iPhone, etc)
I’m off to a place that is sunny. Will update when I’m back 
Best of Web for last week:
- - Performance comparison between EC2, Slicehost, Linode, Rackspace Cloud, Prgmr
- - The confessions of a semi-successful author
- - 50 Most Interesting Articles on Wikipedia
- - Historic documents in computer science and engineering
- - It’s like twitter. Except we charge people to use it
- - PostSecret of the week!
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Have an event? Did you just release/update a product? Looking to hire? Looking to raise startup capital? Email me: mj@robotsandpencils.com for inclusion in next week
Next Startup School is Feb 27/28 – 2010.
