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360iDev – Get Yer Game on!

August 18, 2009 By 4 Comments

Chuck Smith brought up a great idea, and we’re more than happy to help support and promote it.

What is it?

iPhone Game Tournie! The two current suggestions are Worms(iTunes Link), and Tap Tap Revenge(iTunes Link) but Chuck is open to other suggestions. Leave a comment if you’re intersted or wanna propose a different game.

For our part Tom and I will help figure out how to set up something so everyone can watch some of the heats on the big screens around the conference.

So if there’s a game you’re pretty bad ass at, let us and Chuck know so we can get this bad mama jama ironed out!

GAME ON!

Can’t play unless you’re there! Register now to be a part of the best iPhone conference in the country! See you in September!

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360iDev – Hotel info

August 17, 2009 By Leave a Comment

For those that might not have seen it, we wanted to make sure everyone knew, there IS a special hotel rate for attendees! The Curtis Hotel is the official hotel of 360|iDev, and we highly encourage everyone to stay at the hotel.

We don’t get any more from the hotel or anything like that :) It’s more a matter of we have a room block that needs to be filled. We’d rather use our budget to buy cool things for attendees, not pay a room block shortage fee.

Plus, we party hard, and we party late, do you want to have to stumble to your hotel or just stumble to the elevator? Believe me, there will be stumbling! So you might a well minimize the distance to travel!

So click here for all the details about the official hotel of 360|iDev!

Not registered yet? Why not!? Waiting for a price drop? Not gonna happen. Waiting to ensure the conference is happening? Oh it’s on! Its on like Voltron! Tickets are moving fast and waiting only raises the possibility that you won’t get in! Register now!

If you’ve never checked out the Curtis, it’s by far the most interesting and character filled hotel you’re gonna find in Denver. It’s a great place, with tons of fun!

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360iDev – The Speakers – Amanda Wixted and David Cairns

August 13, 2009 By Leave a Comment

I met Amanda briefly at WWDC at House of Shields, begging her to submit a topic for 360|iDev. That’s about all I remember actually, but clearly it worked!

When she submitted her session, we knew we’d want her and David to present. How could we pass up, ”Getting Started with iPhone Game Development“? Clearly gaming on the iPhone is huge, huger than I ever thought it would be, actually. But my wrongness on that topic didn’t impact wanted the best people possible to present on the topic, and so here’s Amanda and David!

Learn the basic concepts and code architecture behind casual mobile games. We’ll walk you through a demo game that uses OpenGL ES and you can keep the source! Amanda and David work for the two top iPhone game studios (Zynga and ngmoco:) – learn from the best!

Amanda and David are experts in their field for sure! We had actually heard Amanda’s name before meeting her and it was my aim to meet her at WWDC if at all possible! Mission accomplished, and now she’s coming to Denver! No pressure girl! you’ll rock it :)

Register now, you’re waiting? For what? Better price? you missed that boat. Confirmation the conference is happening? Oh it’s on son, on like Voltron! So why wait? The hotel block is filling fast, tickets are moving fast too, are you really gonna risk us selling out and you not getting in?

Register now!



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360iDev – Mad Props to our Sponsors!

August 12, 2009 By Leave a Comment

I wanted to take a minute to congratulate our current sponsors on being awesome!

Not only have they signed on to be a part of the best iPhone developer conference ever (yeah that includes the last 360|iDev!) but they’re great companies!

Make sure to thank each one when you see them at the conference!

If you’re wondering if sponsorship is right for you, ask yourself this. Do you want to meet a few hundred iPhone developers? Do you want more than just a logo on a big sign in the main hall? Do you want to have a physical presence developers can stop by and talk? Do you want your brand on something they’ll use every day? Do you want to meet and interact with some of the biggest names in the industry during a speaker/sponsor dinner the night before? If any of that garnered a ‘yes’ or even a ‘mmm sounds interesting’ check out our sponsor packet. Our sponsors are more than just purses with logos. they’re our business partners and we do everything we can to make sure our events meet their needs.

Register now! Waiting doesn’t get you anything and space is filling up fast! Don’t miss the iPhone developer conference of the year!

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360iDev – The Speakers – Joe Pezzillo and Dan Burcaw

August 11, 2009 By Leave a Comment

Push is the next new big thing! As more and more apps begin implementing push notification, it becomes clear that the need for the back end infrastructure is going to go through the roof!

Veteran iPhone application developers Dan and Joe have formed a new company push.IO

“Push it Up! Implementing Apple’s Push Notifications for Fun & Profit!” Is sure to be an eye opening session. Showing developers what’s involved in implementing push. It’s not as easy as flipping a bit, so this session will be a must see for those looking to implement push in their apps, and unsure of the next steps, or where to go for the backend support they’re going to need.

Just take a look at the session description.

Dan & Joe walk you through how and why to add push notifications to your application, what’s required on the server side with plenty of working sample code and specific examples to guide you through every step of the process. After showing you how to implement it yourself, they explain how their new company Push.IO is helping developers make it easy to scale.

Make sure you don’t delay! Register now to ensure you have a spot at the table! Tickets are moving fast and September 27th isn’t that far away! Register Now!
Make sure you book your rooms with the Curtis before out special room block expires! Save some coin! Click here for details
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360iDev – The Speakers – PJ Cabrera

August 10, 2009 By Leave a Comment

I’ll admit this session tickled my fancy. I love the idea of add-on inputs and displays, that take the work off my main display(s) and do a specific job.

PJ Cabrera will be talking about that and more in his session, “Using iPhone to provide optional input/output and location services for Mac OS X applications”

I’d love to have my iphone docked and giving me (already possible I know) system details on my network, CPU, RAM, active processes, etc. Why not also be able to be a ‘torrent status’ monitor etc?

And input? Well I think the simplest example, is a multitouch trackpad, where your mouse would be, awesome for those of use, using our macbook (Pro)s in a docked fashion on our desk.

Using Bonjour and Wi-Fi, it is possible to hook-up a Mac OS X Cocoa app to a Cocoa Touch app running on iPhone or iPod Touch. The Cocoa Touch app could use its screen, multi-touch, accelerometer and/or Core Location APIs to provide optional input / output services or location services to the Cocoa app running on a Mac. This session will explore this alternative use of an iDevice for input/output services and location services for Cocoa apps. A few small sample applications will be demoed to demonstrate the concept and fire up the attendees’ imaginations.

The possibilities are endless for sure, I can’t wait to see what sample Apps PJ has cooked up for us. Don’t miss this session!

Register now! Don’t miss out on the best iPhone developer conference in the country (world?). You’re not going to find more iPhone developers in one place, outside of WWDC! Don’t delay! Tickets are moving fast!



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360iDev – Your logo on a shirt!

August 5, 2009 By Leave a Comment

We don’t always do shirts, because we think it gets old. I love free t-shirts, but a shirt for the sake of a shirt, is less appealing. Plus we like to be different. Twice now for 360|Flex, we’ve done really nice polo shirts, with sponsor logos.

Well for our first 360|iDev shirt, we’re going t-Shirt, but we’re going t-Shirt in style :)

shirtI spoke to the guys behind Exploded Phone yesterday, and am really excited about this shirt, normally our shirt design is kind of a secret, but this is just too cool to wait that long.

Oh and the “Your Logo here” well our shirts are sponsored, so if you’re looking to have your logo on a kick ass shirt, worn by a few hundred iPhone developers, might be worth looking into :) just ask us about shirt sponsorship.

I will keep the phrase on the back a secret. Tom had an awesome idea for that :)

Make sure you get your official 360|iDev shirt Register now!

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360iDev – The Speakers – Jay (Saurik) Freeman

August 3, 2009 By 1 Comment

If you were at the last 360|iDev in March, you’ll know we had a few sessions on Jailbraking, and that our pal Saurik even announced the Cydia store during his session.

Saurik is back, with a full day Hands-On training class onSunday! We’re really excited to have Saurik back with us, it’s important for developers to see all the aspects and possibilities in iPhone development, and jailbraking and non AppStore apps is a definite option.

Check out the description of Saurik’s class and see for yourself.

Will teach developers how to write extensions using the existing MobileSubstrate framework, as well as a soon-to-be-released runtime introspection and scripting language, both for purposes of tapping into the unofficial iPhone software market, as well as to provide people the means to understand how the existing applications perform their magic: by reaching your hands directly into their implementations. Will include a brief overview of the status the jailbroken software market, where many of these existing extensions can be found. With almost a quarter million dollars in revenues just from the 15 packages available in the Cydia Store (a small fraction of the overall jailbreak market), this area has proven itself to be a viable option for commercial development and sales.

All but one of the actual technologies I will be describing are applicable to non-jailbroken applications, but you would be limited to actually /changing/ the implementation of applications you have yourself written, although you’d be able to mess easily with things in UIKit (where a lot of the value to many users would be). In particular, the introspection framework that I am releasing is designed in such a way as to let you easily embed it into an App Store application.

It is definitely true that to get the most out of this that you can you will need to be willing to jailbreak your device (something I’d personally hope developers do anyway, in order to do more extensive testing of their application code, as well as to have better access to debugging).

This will be a great session for developers looking at alternatives to the Nazi, black box App store nightmare that Apple has created.

Of course Sunday pre-Conference training is completely free, included in the regular registration price… Wonder if other events that cost as much as 360|iDev, have perks like that? :) Register now to ensure you have a seat at the Premiere iPhone developer conference in the world!


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360iDev – iPhone Dev Conferences Compared

July 31, 2009 By Leave a Comment

With a few alternatives to 360|iDev coming up, we thought it might make sense to talk about the options available to the community. This way those, who haven’t decided, can make the most informed decision.

You basically have 3 choices: iPhoneDevCamp, 360|iDev, and Voices That Matter. (in Chrono order)

Name iPhoneDevCamp 360|iDev VTM: iPhone Conf.
Dates 8/1 – 8/2

Party (7/31)

 9/27 – 9/30

(Parties 3 nights)

 10/17 – 10/18

(No party listed)
size (capacity) 500 400 unknown
speakers 33ish 40+ 14
Price $50 $499

(First 100 were $360)

 $699

(Early bird $495 thru 9/13)
Audience Hobbyist/Developer Developer/Business Developer
Location Silicon Valley, CA

plus satellite locations

 Denver, CO Boston, MA

So what makes sense for you?  Well, let’s go through some of the driving reasons for attending a show and find the one that best fits you.

Travel: If travel is not an option, then go to the one that’s close enough to walk or drive to.  If travel is an option, then flying to iPhoneDevCamp or 360|iDev are the best options since you get more bang for you buck.

Attitude: By this we mean, the attitude of your fellow attendees towards the iPhone platform.  If you’re a hobbyist that just wants to see what the hype is about, then go to iPhoneDevCamp.  At $50, you’re gonna find yourself surrounded by a bunch of hobbyists.  If you serious about making a living on the iPhone Platform, then 360|iDev is the best as we talk about the business side as well as the development stuff, have hands-on sessions (for free) and almost twice as many dev sessions as VTM.

<armsInAir>Supah-Stars!</armsInAir>: If seeing some big names from the Mac and iPhone world is your goal (and really, for some it is), any of the 3 will give your opportunities to “see” some superstars.  We’ve never been to the other two, so we can’t speak for them.  However, at 360|iDev, the superstars also party with you on 3 nights so you can meet them, chat with them and (if you really want to) get their autograph!  If you do get autographs, give a token bone to the organizers and ask for theirs.  We want to feel special too.  LOL

Timeliness: If you can’t wait, get your butt over to Yahoo HQ (or one of the satellite locations) for iPhoneDevCamp since it starts tonight (well a party does, the real meat is Saturday).  Next up would be 360|iDev at the end of September and then VTM in mid-October.  Ask your boss when would be the best time to go and run with that one.

Community Vibe/Action: Again, we’ve never been to iPhoneDevCamp and the VTM show has yet to go down.  We were told though by those did attend IDC and 360|iDev last time that our show had a stronger community vibe.  People wanted to interact and get to know each other.  The interaction was so good that the idea for App Treasures was born at our conference.  You gotta admit, that’s pretty cool. New ventures formed from the connections made at 360|iDev

History: By this we mean show history.  iPhoneDevCamp is on rev 3 and it shows.  The camp has changed quite a bit from what it was the first time.  360|iDev is on rev 2.  It was built on a tested formula and it showed.  Attendees loved the show as you can read here.  VTM is on rev 1, so will be a new experience for all involved.  If a track record is important, then definitely weigh your options carefully.

The purpose of this post isn’t why you should be at 360|iDev. We do want you there, but having you know your options is more important to us.  We want everyone to attend the event that makes the most sense to them.  Hopefully, the competition feels the same, but again, we can’t speak for them.

That being said, if you read the chart and made us your choice, click here and reg now!  We’ve sold out the first 100 cheaper tickets and sales hasn’t really slowed down since.  Get in before it’s too late!

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360iDev – Spend the Sat/Sun Sunday before 360iDev learning iPhone OpenGL programming

July 30, 2009 By Leave a Comment

We’re happy to have the pleasure to work with Noel and Dan, and the fact that they’ve decided to offer this great training, leading up to 360|iDev is just awesome! Developers can start with their training to ramp up for the full 360|iDev conference, all in the same place even!

Check out the description below!

360iDev speaker Noel Llopis will be teaching his Mobile Orchard iPhone OpenGL Programming Class the Saturday and Sunday before the conference.

Designed for CocoaTouch/UIKit programmers, Noel’s class packs everything you need to get started creating high-performance, 2D and 3D OpenGL applications into an intensive 2-day class. The class emphasizes practical knowledge and working code: you’ll write OpenGL apps showing 2D and 3D object rendering, animation, lighting, multitexturing, and point sprites.

Noel’s a master OpenGL programmer with a demonstrated ability to clearly communicate complex, graphics programming topics. He single-handedly created the critically acclaimed Flower Garden App, and his PC/console titles include The Bourne Conspiracy, Darkwatch, the MechAssault series and and Missile Command. He writes a monthly column for Game Developer Magazine and his blog shows up as the second result (after Wikipedia) for a game programmer search on Google.

Conference attendees save $300 — use “360″ as a coupon code. Only $999 with early bird registration and conference discount. Will be held in the same hotel as 360iDev; the conference’s discounted room rate applies. Details and registration at http://mobileorchard.com/opengl

Register now for 360|iDev to get the Hands-On training discount! Don’t miss out on the best iPhone developer conference this year!

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