MacHack 2003 announces sessions and papers

MacHack is the annual gathering of Mac developers, coordinated by developers, that descends each year on Dearborn, Mi. It’s a round-the-click geekfest that runs for three days in June. The event’s coordinators have unveiled this year’s planned list technical sessions and papers.

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This list isn’t complete, according to MacHack’s coordinators — more will be added as June draws near. Openings for speakers are still available, too, so if you want to be a part of this, make sure to visit the MacHack Web site for details.

Technical sessions planned for MacHack 2003 include:

Bash Metrowerks

Birds of a Feather: Contracting

Birds of a Feather: Selling Shareware

BSD Security on Mac OS X

C++ for Yoots!

Codewarrior

Do’s and Don’ts of Shareware

Everything You Wanted To Know About PDF, But Were Afraid To Ask

eXtreme Programming

Hacking the Press

Hacking Objective-C

Patching with Unsanity Application Enhancer

Performance Analysis

Porting Applications

PowerPlant X

ROBOLAB: LEGO Mindstorms for Schools (and Macs!)

Sherlock 3 Channels

Using GPGME.framework to add public key cryptography features to your application

Video Digitizing

The MacHack Papers Competition encourages developers to submit academic-style papers for presentation at the event. MacHack’s coordinators say that the competition’s roots are lost in antiquity, although it can be apparently be tracked back to MacHack’s origins as a University of Michigan-associated event. These papers made this year’s cut:

Hacking PalmOS 5 by Jesse Donaldson

How to Hack Mac OS X by Jonathan ‘Wolf’ Rentzsch

Integrating a Virtual File System with Mac OS X by Andrew S. Downs

LAMP (LAMP Ain’t Mac POSIX) by Joshua Juran

Risks in Using Commercial Wireless Networks by Dennis Luxen

Signing Executables in Mac OS X by Miro Jurisic

Systematic Error Handling and Exception Safety in Mixed C++/Objective-C by Mac Murrett and Andrew Pontious

Competitive papers are to be presented as part of the conference program, and attendees vote on the best of the presentations. The winner gets the coveted MacHack 2003 Papers Prize Package.

Conference registration costs $500 — a $50 discount until mid-April. That gets you access to all events, three meals and the conference banquet. More details are available at the MacHack Web site.