Last night’s NSCoder Night London was the smallest gathering yet. Not surprising considering that most regulars had been to NSConference Mini the previous Friday. It was also at a new place – The George Inn on Borough High Street because the Bunch of Grapes was showing football.

After spending the evening in the Old Bar which was mostly empty we thought we’d try and have the next meeting there as well. Far more space and quiet enough to hear everybody. This could have been because people had gone elsewhere to watch the football or were sitting on the benches outside to enjoy the clement weather. The downside was that the food wasn’t as good.

So, for next month, we’ll try and have the meeting at the George Inn and see how it copes with a larger group of people, and for those who turn up early they can go to the Bunch of Grapes for food. There is no point in trying to arrange dinner afterwards because people have got trains to catch.

The usual venue will be showing world cup football on our usual night so rather than put up with the a crowded upstairs room and droning vuvuzelas it seems a better idea to shift the meeting from one week. The suggestion is The George Inn on Borough High street. It’s just a couple of minutes further on from London Bridge station.

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The other idea I had was to gather on the embankment outside the London Assembly building. But the weather reports say it might be windy.

This is just a temporary location for a week.

I’ve been a bit quiet lately, but that doesn’t mean that the schedule has changed.

Tomorrow is the third Tuesday of the month, and that means another London Mac developer get together.

See you there.

I’ve been inspired by Pieter Omvlee of Bohemian Coding and his 365Cocoa to set up my own contribution.

I’m going to try and and fill a year with git tips and inspirations over at 365git. I’ve got a few weeks worth of ideas but if anyone wants to know anything or has a suggestion, I’ll gratefully consider them.

Here’s an old screencast which I never got around to uploading.

It makes sense to set up a single directory in Xcode where built products and intermediate files are kept. You can blitz all the files at once if you don’t need them, you don’t have to set up manual exclusions for your version control and you can set up the files to be excluded from Time Machine backups.

This was recorded with an earlier version of Xcode, but the steps still apply. Please excuse the sound quality.

Today is the third Tuesday of the month, so it’s time for the London NSCoder Night.

The meeting is at the usual place at the usual time. There is a table booked upstairs from 7pm. Send me an email or a DM on twitter if you need my phone number or any other details.

As it’s such a nice day, I might turn up early. See you later.

You may have occasion to rename an Xcode project.

You can find step-by-step instructions and scripts with a little bit of Googling. But there is another way. If you’re running Xcode 3.2 on Snow Leopard there is a menu item you can use instead. Have a look at the Project > Rename… menu item instead.

Pieter Omvlee of Bohemian Coding has been inspired to post a snippet of Objective-C/Cocoa code every day for a year.

It’s a great idea and starts with a useful category on NSArray. Go and see what you can learn over at http://365cocoa.tumblr.com/.