MacHack: Sessions, Papers Announced

MacHack 2003: Sessions, Papers Announced MacHack: By Developers, For Developers http://www.machack.com/ Contact: Carol Lynn mailto:info@machack.com c/o Expotech 1264 Bedford Road Grosse Point Park, MI 48230 March 13, 2003-Dearborn, MI-After toiling away for months, the MacHack content committees are ready to unveil the fruits of their labors. Numerous technical sessions are ready to be revealed and more will be added as the conference draws near. Openings for speakers are still available, so don't hesitate to check the conference website for details on how to participate. The technical sessions are numerous and varied. A preliminary list includes such topics as: 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 Details on session specifics as well as speaker bios are available on the conference website. Every year sees the MacHack Papers Competition. This subcategory of MacHack content derives from the academic origins of the conference. The origins of this tradition are lost in the Mists of Time, when MacHack was affiliated with the University of Michigan. Now, every spring brings a crop of academic style papers with a decidedly MacHack spin. The seven below are the best of breed of 2003. These papers represent an academic understanding of all that is MacHack. 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 Commerical 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 will be presented as part of the conference program. Conference attendees vote on the best of the presentations. The winner of the papers competition will receive the MacHack 2003 Papers Prize Package. Secure registration and more information are available at the conference website. Conference registration costs $500 (a $50 discount until 4/15/03) and includes access to all conference events, 3 meals and the conference banquet. Of course, attendance of the legendary Hack Show is mandatory. Secure registration and more information are available at the conference website. MacHack 18 will take place June 19-21, 2003, in Dearborn, Michigan. More information is available on the Web from http://www.machack.com/. MacHack is a registered trademark of Expotech, Inc. MacHack is not affiliated with The MacHax Group, although we've all been enjoying the Hack Contest together each year for umpteen years! Apple and Macintosh are registered trademarks of Apple Computer, Inc. All other trademarks are the properties of their respective holders.

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