2009 August

360idev – JQTouch

August 31, 2009 By John Leave a Comment

David Kaneda mentioned his new release of JQTouch for mobile platforms, so I wanted to make sure everyone knows and takes a look.

“A jQuery plugin for mobile web development on the iPhone, Android, Palm Pre, and other forward-thinking devices.”

JQTouch looks like an awesome way to build Web UI for your applications. Definitely worth taking a look at!

jQTouch Preview from David Kaneda on Vimeo.

Some of the features ofJQTouch include:

Easy Setup
Native WebKit Animations
Image Preloading
Callback Events
Flexible Themes
MIT Licensed

David’s session will be a great way for iPhone devs looking to build web apps. JQuery is a powerful tool, and bringing it to the iPhone is a great thing for everyone

Make sure you register! Today is the last day of our awesome intro pricing, it goes up tomorrow! Don’t delay! Get in now for the best price! Why spend more if you don’t need to!

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360idev – The Speakers – Jessica Kahn

August 28, 2009 By John Leave a Comment

It’s always a pleasure when women want to present at our conferences, it’s especially when they’re awesome! Jessica Kahn from Tapulous will be with us presenting, ”Building & Maintaining a Family of Applications: Code Reuse on a Platform that Supports One Binary per Application”

Code re-use is huge, not just in iPhone circles, but in general. Every programmer should strive to get some level of code re-use going on, it just makes sense.

The iPhone platform currently prohibits typical means for creating shared code modules: frameworks, dylibs, and loadable bundles. If you’re creating a suite of applications that have common core functionality, this presents something of a maintenance nightmare. Find out how Tapulous, the makers of Tap Tap Revenge (and several other applications all based upon the same core engine), solved this problem to cut costs, save time, and increase quality across the product line. Learn from our experience (including our initial missteps), and jumping through the right Xcode, Subversion, and code-signing hoops will be a breeze for you!

Anytime we can get more women presenters we’re eager to help bring a little balance to the event, so it’s great have so many female presenters at this 360|iDev! We have more women presenting this time than we did in San Jose!

As a programmer, code re-use is one of those tenets that can’t be ignored, so this session will be a big boon for developers just getting into the concept and even those familiar with it.

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360iDev – OpenGL ES Weekend Early Bird Pricing Ending

August 27, 2009 By John Leave a Comment

If you’ve been eyeing Noel Llopis’ OpenGL ES 2 day class that takes place the weekend that 360|iDev kicks off, you better act fast! The Early bird pricing for this awesome training opportunity ends soon, really soon! September 4th Soon!

Also don’t forget the price of 360|iDev will go up by 9/1 $100. Why spend money you don’t need to? Register now for the OpenGL ES class, and register for 360|iDev and get the combo discount! Save yourself a few hundred bucks!

Tom and I are really excited that Mobile Orchard and Noel decided to offer this course the weekend we kick off 360|iDev! We’re glad to have as many opportunities for our attendees to learn as possible and this class will give you a massive head start on some of the incredible sessions we’ve got lined up for 360|iDev.

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360idev – NOT in Danger of being Cancelled

August 27, 2009 By John Leave a Comment

We just wanted to make that clear. We had heard that the question had come up a few times in the community, and we just want to make sure everyone knows, 360|iDev Denver, will take place, there’s no doubt or question there.

if there’s any lingering concern, drop us an email or a comment, but I promise on my iPhone, which I hold most dear, we will be at the Curtis hotel Sept 27-30th, with as many people as we can get to join us.

We’re actually on the verge of passing our last attendance numbers, which is huge and a major milestone for us!

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360iDev – The Speakers – Henry Balanon

August 26, 2009 By John 1 Comment

As with anything, iPhone application development is only partly development and design. It’s also marketing. With tens of thousands of apps in the App Store, you can’t just release and app and hope it’s found. Doing a search for Bubble Wrap in the App store this morning, returns 8 apps. 8 apps that do EXACTLY the same basic thing, make a bubble wrap popping sound. You better bet you’re gonna have to market the hell out of your app to get it noticed!

Henry’s session will help address that issue in his, “A Lottery You Can Decently Influence: iPhone App Marketing Essentials for Developers” session.

“If you build it, they will come.” That used to be the saying in the early days of the iPhone App Store. But now the gold rush is over and now your efforts towards marketing become increasingly essential. There are some basic and not-so-basic things you can do to make sure you app stands out from the day it is launched. This is a MUST see presentation at 360iDev.

We’re not all marketing geniuses (genii?) so this session will be hugely valuable for those of us not dialed into marketing juju.

Don’t miss it! Register now before the price goes up 9/1!! Why pay more? register now, save some coin! Don’t miss the best iPhone conference of 2009!

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360iDev Registration – $499, Time with Mike Lee and Matt Drance – Priceless

August 25, 2009 By Tom 1 Comment

Many people dream of visiting the mothership, Apple HQ in Cupertino. A relative few make it into the sacred walls to actually find work there. To work at Apple, you have to be good great at what you do. All the products we know and love are a testament to that fact.

If you’re in the iPhone development scene, access to those that have or are inside the sacred walls is truly priceless. It’s the reason that WWDC sold out. Now, we’re not claiming that chatting with these two fellas at 360|iDev beats chatting with entire teams at WWDC. It’s close though! LOL

Now, don’t get us wrong. We’re making a pretty big deal about these guys, but they’re not all the show has to offer. We have 40+ sessions led by the best of the best in indie developers, biz dev folks, etc. They are definitely the substance of the show. @drance and @bmf are just the lipstick and the eyeshadow (we’ll let them fight over which is wihich!)

However, even the speakers themselves realize how special it is to hang with these two. Aside from their knowledge of iPhone dev, mac dev, objective-c, startups, etc., these two are just nice guys that you’d want to hang with and share some good times with.

We just announced yesterday that prices will steadily be going up after 8/31. So hurry up and buy your tickets now while it’s still just $499.

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Prices going up for 360|iDev, act fast!

August 24, 2009 By Tom 1 Comment

The tough thing about conferences is ordering the right amount of stuff. By “stuff”, we mean: swag (shirts, USB drives, etc), food (lunches, parties), etc. It’s always tough trying to figure out just how many of each to order. We’d like to know for sure, vs guessing. Therefore, we’re going to be trying something different.

Currently, it is $499 to register for 360|iDev. That’s a whole lotta conference for that price. However, if you’re sitting on the fence, we really need you to make up your mind. We want to have you here, but we also want to make sure we have enough items for you. Therefore, we’re looking to help speed up your decision making.

Starting on Monday, August 31, the price of 360|iDev will go UP by $100. That’s right, hurry up and buy your ticket pronto and you save $100. It gets better though. For every week after, up until showtime, we’ll be raising the price by $100. Let’s lay this out for ya.

Time frame Price

til 8/30 $499

til 9/6 $599

til 9/13 $699

til showtime $799

We don’t want to be mean or greedy. Heck, we’d be jazzed if y’all just hurried up and bought your tickets by 8/30. But by all means, feel free to pay $799 after 9/14 too. The choice is yours. The one thing you can’t say though is that you weren’t warned.

Register now for $499. Don’t be dumb. Save the cash to buy a new iPod Touch when it comes out! Plus, we just want to hurry up and sell out already so we can stop reminding you to register. LOL

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360iDev – The Speakers – Phil Libin

August 21, 2009 By John Leave a Comment

Use Evernote? I do! Love it! both the Mac and iPhone client are incredibly useful!

We’ve got Phil Libin, CEO of Evernote presenting an awesome session titled, “Developing for the Cult of Mac”

We had the pleasure of meeting Phil and having him speak at our InsideMobile conference, and ‘wow’ doesn’t do him justice. He’s a great presenter and reading the below description of his session, should be proof enough that he’s gonna deliver a wealth of information!

The development of an iPhone or iPod application is certainly not a project to be taken lightly, and there are a wealth of things to consider when endeavoring to develop for the Apple community, from capabilities to aesthetics and the creation of a full-package UI. Should you include location-aware functions? Spend extra time on a landscape view? Apple die-hards can be a tough sell — and as the list of applications rises to its second million (while nearly 99% percent of iPhone apps are never used after the first download), so do the expectations. What are the stakes in this game and repercussions to playing and are they worth it? In this panel, Phil Libin of Evernote, the memory-enhancing, multi-platform application will go into detail around the answer to that question — absolutely.

The Evernote iPhone app is a model of simplicity, doing what it’s supposed to do without features and crap that don’t add value, but still looks and acts awesome!

Phil is an awesome presenter and a veteran of Mac Desktop application development and now iPhone development! Come see what he has to say! Register now before we sell out!

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360iDev – The Speakers – 2D gaming with Cocos2d with Serban Porumbescu

August 20, 2009 By John 2 Comments

Serban Porumbescu will be with us talking about Cocos2d, and creating 2D games, in his “Introduction to 2D Game Programming with cocos2d” session.

-cocos2d is one of the most popular open source projects for the iphone

- over 100 games shipped, with a number of them in the top 10

- This introductory course will get you up to speed on:

Basic architecture of the engine
Using Sprites and their more efficient counterpart, AtlasSprites
User interaction (dealing with touch and multitouch events)
Particle system
Screen transitions
Actions

This session will be great for people looking to get into game development. Sure 3D is awesome, but we all start somewhere, and plenty of awesome games (My personal faves) are 2D games.

Make sure you check out Serban’s session and get your brain topped off on cocos2D awesomeness and game dev!

Make sure you register before we sell out! Register now to ensure you have a spot at the best iPhone developer conference in the world! Yeah, world! You’re not going to get better hands-on and technical content anywhere else.

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360iDev – Mock Up Your Next App on This!

August 19, 2009 By John Leave a Comment

I found out about this awesome sketch pad when the creator reached out to me through Linkedin (Finally a use for that site!)

We’re working with the creator now, on either a sample for all attendees or possibly to find a sponsor who wants their logo on the cover of the sketch book, to ensure every attendee gets the full booklet!

Talk about an awesome way to get your name in front of hundreds of developers, and an even cooler way to work on mocking up app ideas!

Take a look, and if you can’t wait until 360|iDev for your sketchbook, go order one here!

Space is running out! Register now for the only PiPhone developer conference worth attending this year! Even if you made it to WWDC, 360|iDev has way more advanced topics, just ask around :)

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