Ryan Wells

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Ryan is an independent iPhone developer and founder of the Northwest Arkansas chapter of CocoaHeads, an Apple development group. He is an enthusiastic student of a wide variety of programming languages. Ryan is a software developer at SOAPware Inc, an electronic medical records company in Fayetteville.

Sessions

A Small Talk about Smalltalk

Category: Developers
Level: 100

Despite being one of the foundational languages of modern programming, Smalltalk remains little known among mainstream programmers. As the first major object-oriented language, Smalltalk has had an indelible influence on every OO language of the past 30 years. This session will provide a gentle introduction to a free, cross-platform implementation of Smalltalk and a demonstration of web development using Seaside.

Basic iPhone Development

Category: Developers
Level: 200

This session will step through the creation of a basic iPhone app, with an emphasis on using Xcode, Interface Builder, and Objective-C. No prior iPhone experience is required, but familiarity with C-family languages will be helpful.