iOS Developers Conference
Chuck Smith, our best pal (and huge force behind a 360|iDev Germany) representin’ over in Germany was interviewed for the pre-WWDC episode of the App Show, where Chuck and the guys have a good chat about 360|iDev.
Good on ya guys!
Steve and Dave have a great show, I’ll admit I hadn’t heard of it, but it’s in iTunes now! If you haven’t listened to the show, you owe it to yourself to listen, they cover the news and rumors, talk to developers, good stuff.
Like Beer? Yeah us too, well me at least.
If you’re coming into Denver for the conference, come in a day early and catch the Great American Beer Festival, an annual tradition in Denver, which happens to end on September 26th!
Tickets for Beer fest are on sale now, and typically sell out, so don’t lolly gag.
What do you get for the cost of your ticket?
“Ticket prices for each of the three evening sessions include a festival program, a commemorative tasting cup, unlimited one-ounce samples of your choice of more than 1,800 beers, and a festival guide to help you navigate the floor.”
What do you get for the cost of your 360|iDev registration? 4 days (3 if you go to the beer fest) of awesome technical sessions from some of the biggest names in iPhone development.
Tickets are already flying out the door for 360|iDev, so I wouldn’t wait too long to register, especially if you want the super cheap tickets :) Register Now!
Tom and I will be heading to San Francisco this weekend for WWDC. We can’t wait, it’s our first WWDC!
We’re actually planning to attend some sessions, which will be nice! I know my own learning Obj-C efforts stalled out a bit, so getting some good session time in will rock. The downside of 360|iDev, we can’t attend it :)
We’ll also be trying to meet as many folks as we can to talk about 360|iDev, make sure the iPhone com
munity knows about the conference, and for those interested in getting in early before the cheap tickets sell out, we’ve got an awesome “I found Tom and John” discount price of $200 for all 4 days of the conference.
We’ve got moo cards to hand out to people we meet, I really dig ‘em
We’ve already got some awesome speakers lined up, but there’s plenty of room for more! Once WWDC closes, and we know exactly what can be talked about in [redacted] and what doesn’t make it and is still NDA, etc, we’ll be adding speakers like crazy since they submitted [redacted] topics.
Register now before we sell out of the ‘cheap tickets’!
The first draft of the sessions schedule will be up in a bit. Until then, if you’re a developer itching to speak, the call for papers is officially open!
The submission format is the same as last time. Email your submission to info AT 360idev DOT com
Name
(How you want it to appear on the site)
Email
(So we know how to get a hold of ya)
Blog/twitter
(If you don’t have one yet, it’s time to get one)
Bio
(with pic, tasteful pic that is)
Title
(Short but to the point)
Description
(A paragraph to convey the session)
Track
(Choose one of the following:
Sights, Sounds and Interactions
Development Tips, Tricks and Stories
Business Side of iPhone Development
Hands-on Deep Dive)
Level
(100 – 300, with 100 being easy and 300 being advanced)
Don’t worry, we’re not gonna close the call until after WWDC, for all you cool kids working with features of [redacted]. My hope however IS to close it very soon afterward and get session selection underway.
So if you’re not working with anything that requires the release of [redacted] fire off a submission. If you are, you can still submit. We’re under the same NDA you are and the submission information is closed only to Tom and I.
For those of you who missed 360|iDev in San Jose earlier this year, you missed out, but you now have a chance to redeem yourself. You can pitch a topic, or simply register to attend. Registering early gets you the best price. We tier our pricing, the first 100 are only $360, after that the prices goes to the regular price of $480. IF you’re at WWDC, track Tom or I down and we’ll hook you up with a special, “I found Tom and John” price of $200.
This is gonna be a great event! 4 days of incredible speakers, incredible content, and of course awesome parties with Rock Band and Guitar Hero!
Register now before the price goes up!
Tom and I are happy as, well super happy to announce (finally for those in the know) that we’ve teamed up with O’Reilly to bring two new events into the world!
InsideRIA and InsideMobile!
If the names aren’t clear enough :) the goal of each is to bring together developers in those spaces, for more open ended conversations that are technology agnostic. Sure there could be “How do I update a table view in WebOS, or Android?” sessions, but there will also be sessions addressing strengths and weakness in the various mobile platforms, etc. We’re very open to topic ideas!
InsideRIA, will leverage the already awesome community and RIA focus of the insideRIA blog to provide a real world connecting point for Silverlight, JavaFX, Flex, etc developers.
Both events will be at our famous stomping ground, Ebay Town Hall, birthplace of 360|Flex and 360|iDev. Each event will be a single day (of course also a pre-conference training day) multi track event, aimed at introducing folks to the various options in both spaces.
You know Tom and I, this won’t be some weak sauce marketing focused event showing off “Roadmaps, future features, etc” that’s for the birds, this will be hands on, deep dive nitty gritty details from developers actually building in these platforms.
This is officially also the Call for papers! Have a mobile or RIA topic you’d like to propose? Send us an email!
If you’ve worked with us, the format is the same:
Name
Blog/twitter
Title
Description
Track (Developer Track, XD/Design Track, Biz Dev Track)
Level (100 – 300)
We’re signing contracts today or Monday!
We (and especially me) are happy to announce that the next 360|iDev will be in my home town of Denver CO. I know, that’s not very east, and there’s just not much we can do about it yet. The east coast is a tough nut for us to crack, we have no presence there or knowledge of what’s a good area or not. Once we’re both Full time on events, that should change as we’ll have the time and resources to go investigate options and some of the suggestions we’ve received.
Until then, Denver!
We’ve opened registration for those folks who know the event is gonna kick ass and don’t need to wait. As usual there’s pricing tiers. The first tier is $360, and will last until we’ve sold 100 tickets. After that the price goes up to $495. Remember regardless of the price, your ticket gets you 3 days of 40+ sessions, and hands on training the Sunday before. Oh yeah and kick ass parties with lots of Rock Band and Guitar hero.
Going to WWDC? Tom and I will be walking around kissing hands and shaking babies… oh wait, that’s not right. Find us, track us down, put out a APB, whatever you gotta do, we’ll have our laptops and will be registering people for 360|iDev Denver for $200! Yeah $200! But you have to find US, there’s no code, there’s no special site, find us, bring your payment (Credit card, cash, Vintage Star Wars action figures, Except Lando!) and we’ll register you right there on the spot.
We’ll be opening the call for papers, soon, we’re just not sure if we should wait until after WWDC, since that doesn’t afford us much time to select speakers, and give people time to (as if any was needed) decide to attend.
I’ve asked before and gotten some feedback, so asking again to get a bit more. Open call for papers now, or wait? Maybe open now and leave some slots for post WWDC related stuff?
For those of you who were with us in San Jose earlier, you know our events are like any other, they’re fun, full of great people and little nutty. Denver has the perfect hotel for that type of event. The Curtis! You can get a wake up call from Mr. T, Darth Vader, and more. You can enjoy the themed floors, like heroes, sports icons, etc. Sit in beak out sessions in Marco Polo, Hop scotch, and Red Rover.
We looked long and hard and toured a lot of the hotels in the downtown area, and finally settled on the Curtis because of it’s fun and slightly ‘different’ vibe, which really suits our events.
Stay tuned, spread the word, and get ready for an awesome conference with the best folks in the industry!
I got a tour of the Sheraton down town earlier this week, and wow, that place is gonna be awesome! It used to be the Adams Mark, but after $100 mil, it’s nothing remotely close to what it used to be.
There’s gonna be a techy lounge in the lobby with printers, and computers, it’s gonna be nice.
The new guest rooms are very nice! I never stayed at the Adams Mark, but the Sheraton is now on my list when out of towners need a place to stay.
It’s located right on the 16th St Mall, across from a starbucks, connected to a cool irish bar.
It’s one of two finalist locations for 360|iDev in September. I’m really excited to get a place selected.
Once we’ve got the lcoation and date locked down we’ll open the call for papers. We’re curious if you guys think it makes sense to do the call for papers after WWDC or before/during. What do you think?
I know, I know. New York isn’t mile high, Boston isn’t mile high, neither is Chicago, or blah blah blah.
Yeah we said our next 360|iDev would be somewhere east. Yes we intend to keep working eastward, but the fact is, the east is expensive. 360|Flex has never been more ‘east’ than Indianapolis and Atlanta.
Folks in the east, don’t take this as a slight, we really would love nothing more than to have our kick ass conference in Boston, New York, etc. The reality is, we’re in the West, so we can’t scope out potential venues, the other reality is we’re poor :) the east coast coasts more for hotel/conference centers.
We WILL be on the east one day, I promise it, it’s my personal goal!
In the meantime! Work is underway to find a venue in Denver. Why Denver? Well it’s my hometown for one thing, so that’s cool and it makes venue selection a bit easier. Plus Denver is absolutely AWESOME in September.
We learned a lot and met a ton of awesome people in San Jose! Denver is gonna rock, and it’ll be just after the excitement of WWDC!
See you soon!
We promised we’d get them uploaded, and yeah it took longer than planned, sorry about that. I spent some time the last week and went ahead and uploaded each deck.
Those that have example code, right now we don’t have the code up, but if you email us we can zip it up and make it available on FTP.
If you don’t see a slide for a session you’d like, let the speaker know :)
