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360iDev – got Plans wednesday night? (30th)

September 11, 2009 By Leave a Comment

Interesting story, and why we love doing what we do.

We got an email from Ali a while back, she’s out of work, looking to volunteer for the show, because she couldn’t afford the reg price. We noodled on the idea for a while, and while we typically don’t need a lot of man power (That’s part of why it doesn’t cost much to attend) we wanted to help out.

We wrote her back and agreed to let her volunteer around the conference. Before you open up a new email, we’ve accepted 2 people to help out, which is 2 more than we usually accept, and we’re not accepting more, we would if we could, but we just can’t, our margins aren’t high enough on each ticket to give away 20 or so to those who can’t afford it.

Back to the story, the only night Ali isn’t free is Wednesday night (which is ok, we normally have no official activities on Wed. night) because her band is playing at a local venue in Denver, just north of the conference.

So as of now, we have an official/unofficial outing for Wednesday night. We’re going to trek (It’s walkable, but not short) to Larimer Lounge to see Choke the Word perform!

Ali sent us a few MP3′s so ya’ll can see what they sound like. If you dig it, print out this sheet of tickets. They get points for every ticket that comes in and if they get 50 they get more bookings, so help ‘em out. It’ll be fun!

Songs:

Horseman

In June

Secretion

It’s stuff like this that makes this job awesome! Not only do we get to help people when we can, but we can be a part of things external to iPhone development sometimes and just enjoy music. Did we mention the band that’s playing Tuesday AT the conference? More on that next post.

Register now! Then join us Wednesday night for some great music, by a local artist, and fellow iPhone developer!

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360iDev – iPhone 101 Hands On Training Sunday

September 10, 2009 By Leave a Comment

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We’re happy to announce that we’ve finally locked down the details for the iPhone 101 hands on Training. Jonathan Lehr, from About Objects, will be with us Sunday for a full day of hands on goodness!

If you’re looking at attending the iPhone 101, check out the awesome outline of what you’re going to learn!

Jonathan does training all around the globe so we know our 101′ers will be in excellent hands. You can see what other courses are offered to extend your education, post360|iDev here (iPhone) and here (Obj-C)

This is just a sample of what’s in the outline (Above)

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  • Memory Management
    • Managing retain countsjonathan-3
    • Implementing dealloc
  • Declared Properties and Synthesized Accessors
    • Property declaration syntax
    • Declared attributes
  • The Foundation Framework
    • NSObject, NSString, NSArray, NSDictionary
    • Convenience creation methods, file and URL I/O, fast enumeration
    • Plists
    • Lab: Display a list of books

This training class will have you completely ready to dive into our regular conference schedule Monday thru Wednesday and not be overwhelmed. Not only will you know what you’re getting into for the regular sessions, but you’re gonna be ready to dive in fully and come out Wednesday ready to start submitting apps!

We’re really excited to be able to offer a 101 Hands on course. Education is important and while we love that our topics trend towards the advanced, we want to make sure those with less iPhone development experience can attend the conference and still come away with a great feeling of learning.

We don’t charge for our Sunday training (Have you checked the schedule lately?) because we think there’s no reason to. We want as many of our attendees to join us Sunday to increase their knowledge and skill set. Yes, you heard that correctly!  NO EXTRA FEE for this full day of hands-on training, it’s included in your registration fee.

If you still had doubts on whether this was the show for you, hopefully this seals the deal. Make sure to register now! The price goes up on Monday by $100. We’d rather you register now and save your money :) Save the cash to do a Starbucks run for Tom (Toffee Nut Steamer), John (Mocha Frappucino) and Jonathan (not sure his order yet) during the show.  Thanks in advance!  ;)

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Apress is the Official Sponsor of 360|iDev

September 9, 2009 By 3 Comments

Today we’re very proud to announce a new partnership with Apress as the Official Sponsor of 360|iDev.

This is a very important announcement for a few reasons:

  1. It’s a great fit: Speakers will pretend like they can’t possibly fill up one of our 80 minute slots, but they do.  Afterwards, they find out that they have a whole heck of a lot more to say.  What better place than a book to say that.
  2. Free books: What developer in their right mind doesn’t like free books?  Not to mention that, but we’re talking quality stuff.  (Note: Tom’s read 2 of Apress dev books and loves ‘em)  When you’re the official sponsor that means you bring a whole lotta books. :)
  3. Bigger Reach: 360|iDev is slowly making inroads as far as reach goes.  Granted, we don’t have name recognition like WWDC does, but we’re slowly getting there.  With Apress, we can hopefully reach a lot more developers out there that can benefit from the conference.

Having an official show sponsor is a new thing for us.  It’s something that we’ll have to investigate and grow, much like everything we do in relation to the shows.  The most important thing for us though is making sure that the official sponsor is a great fit for our attendees.

We’ll be honest.  The concept/idea wasn’t ours.  We’ve been chatting with the folks at Apress for the past couple of weeks in an attempt to expand their participation at the event.  From editors to marketing folks, everyone we’ve chatted with has been awesome!  It’s therefore with great excitement that we announce them as the first Official Sponsor of 360|iDev.  It’s a relationship that we hope will continue to grow and evolve as the show does.

For those of you waiting on the sidelines, wondering if this show will be a good fit for you, wait no more.  With Apress as the official sponsor, this edition of 360|iDev is going to be that much better.  Register now and join what’s sure to be a great event.

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360Idev – Awesome stuff to announce on Tuesday

September 4, 2009 By 1 Comment

Tom and I just got off a conference call with a great company that wants to be way more involved in 360|iDev.

That means cool stuff going on that the conference! We’ll be announcing it all on Tuesday, but it’s pretty awesome. We’re really excited about the potential this sponsor brings to the conference!

Stay tuned Tuesday for some awesome news. You might want to register now though, the next price increase is Tuesday morning. Why spend money you don’t have to? Register now!

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360idev – The Speakers – Nathan Eror

September 3, 2009 By 2 Comments

If you’re looking for some hands on Core Animation juju, look no farther than Nathan Eror’s ”Using Core Animation to Build Complex and Attractive Interfaces” session. Nathan will be going deep on Core Animation, and building great User Interfaces and User Experiences on the iPhone.

Core Animation plays an integral role in the iPhone user interface and is responsible for much of its intuitiveness. Careful use of animation can make even an average app a joy to use. In this session you will learn how to effectively apply the features of Core Animation in your own apps. After a brief introduction to the principles behind Core Animation, you will learn how it is used in UIKit. Then, we will dig into the meat of Core Animation and how to use it effectively. Through numerous code examples, you will learn how to tame some of the complexities of the Core Animation API. By the end of this session, you will be comfortable with Core Animation, and your apps will run more smoothly and be more visually appealing.

With so much sample code (we’ll try to get it on the USB drive ahead of time too!) Nathan’s session will be a must for those looking to get more into Core Animation! Don’t miss it, the price of registration goes up on Monday! Register Now!



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