Last night I attended the first Minnesota chapter of CocoaHeads started by a good friend of mine. There was a really good turn out with about 20 people there – more than I expected.

It was a great mix of people with a few seasoned Cocoa veterans and bunch of rookies (myself included in the latter). There was a lot of interest in iPhone development. It would appear that Apple is drawing a lot of people to Cocoa/Object-C with the it (most everyone there was interested in iPhone development). My personal interest is more on the Mac application development side, but I have to admit I’m pretty jazzed about the potential market for iPhone apps.

After some introductions, Bill and Damon (I hope I\’m spelling it right) kicked things off with a demo of a couple of iPhone applications they\’re working on for their company CodeMorphic. They’re doing some impressive stuff and I’m really looking forward to seeing how things progress for them.

When Bill and Damon finished, Bob gave an excellent introductory presentation on Cocoa development. He even risked *gasp* live coding during the presentation. He pulled it off with out a hitch! It was clear that Bob put some serious time into preparing for the presentation (I think he’s set the bar pretty high for the rest of us who want to present).

Its fun to be in on the start of building a community around Apple development here in the Twin Cities. I’m really looking forward to the next meeting. Bob will present again, but this time going into more detail on the Objective-C language.

Hopefully we’ll see you there! :-)