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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 – 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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360iDev – Do you want to write?

July 21, 2009 By 2 Comments

For those of you that might not know, Tom and I have created a side business of 360|Conferences, called 360|Whisperings.

We’re changing technical publishing for the better (We hope!)

360|Whisperings, is all eContent, there’s no dead trees, none of the trappings (and time wasting) of traditional publishing… you know, write a book and by the time it’s out the programming language, OS, etc is in the next version.

We’re also not (at least at this time) interested in massive tomes, you know those books, the kind you’d use to kill a tarantula. We want articles, short books (or long articles), etc.

There’s no subscription, no monthly fees, it’s pay as you read. There’s a few sites already doing similar things, and you pay monthly, whether you get value from the content or not, whether an entire month is something you couldn’t care less about, etc.

with 360|Whisperings, we’re making technical content as available as itunes makes music. Why pay for a bunch of articles on Drupal? Why not just spend .99 or 2.99 on a technical artcile, from a known name in the field, that’s been reviewed and edited by Us, and that you can return if absolutely hate?

All that said, why don’t you sign on to write for us. We’re not a big publisher, so there’s no sliminess, there’s no contract locking you into our clutches forever.

Drop us an email and let’s talk about it!

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360iDev speaker and attendee badges

June 19, 2009 By 3 Comments

I’ve never liked the term ‘blog bling’ it’s retarded, however I do like to see blogs that indicate the events the writer is attending. I think that’s kind of a cool shout out to the event, that it’s worth some real estate on the persons site.

That said, thanks to our pal Anthony we’ve got some images to use for badges and stuff! This is a first pass, we may refine or improve them as time goes on (who am I kidding, probably not gonna happen). Go ahead and download the speaker or attendee badge. Just right click save as.

Pretty straight forward and simple, if you’ve met Tom and I, you’ll know that’s how we roll! :)

Can’t wait to see these around the blogosphere!

Not registered for 360|iDev? Better hurry, tickets are moving fast! Register Now!

Update:  Here’s another speaker one:

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360iDev – USB Hunt is on!

June 11, 2009 By Leave a Comment

We’ve started the USB Drive Hunt! Spread the word!

We’ve got 7 USB drives, with 50% off codes for 360|iDev and InsideMobile!

Not to mention 30% off codes for the Fastmac IV and a pre-release invite for push.io

Oh yeah, and a bunch of promo codes for games from the App Treasures crew.

There’s also all the content from 360|iDev San Jose! You’ll see the type of content you can expect from 360|iDev Denver!

Oh and it’s a 2gb USB drive too!

We’ve already hidden 2 of the drives, here and here! The rest will be hidden throughout the day, including 1 at the Beer Bash tonight, and 1 at the Coloroad companies party at Tempest! Be there!

Follow the 360idev twitter account and/or the hashtag #usbhunt

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360iDev USB drive hunt! Win an iPod Touch!

June 5, 2009 By Leave a Comment

We’re trying something new (to us) and I think kinda cool!

We’ve got 7 2gb USB drives left over from 360|iDev San Jose. They’re packed with all the presentations and such from that show (so you can see what you missed ;D ) but we’re also adding something even more awesome. Discounts and promo codes.

Each drive will have a unique, single use discount code for 50% 1 registration to 360|iDev in September.

We’ve also gotten some promo codes from the crew at App Treasures! And will be collecting a few more promo codes.  We’ll announce here and via twitter.

The point is we’ll hide the drives around San Francisco, near Moscone.  We’ll drop clues and WWDC attendees (or SF natives) can go find the drives.  After all 7 are found, one lucky hunter will win an iPod Touch.  It’s an 8 GB model, but hey, it’ll make a great test machine!

Again stay tuned here and  twitter to find out clues!  Let the hunting begin.  (Well, not yet actually, since none are hidden yet, but if you wanna warm up.  Feel free!  LOL)

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360iDev – More than just sessions

June 4, 2009 By Leave a Comment
I’ll be honest, this came as no surprise to me. 360|Flex has been the launch pad for all sorts of things, and I’m thrilled that the same phenomenon is taking place with 360|iDev.
The sessions (40+) are top notch, they rock, the speakers rock, and missing them is definitely not wise, but unlike events where you’re with 5000 other people who may or may not be iPhone developers, the person next to you at 360|iDev is going to know the pain of waiting for app store approval, the challenges of working with accelerometer, etc. They’ll be an iPhone developer.
That type of community allows for some truly awesome things to be created. Things like App Treasures, created by attendees of 360|iDev in March, who got to talking while there.
An Indie developer game development label.
Here’s a little blurb from the press release.
Five independent iPhone game developers announced today the creation of the App Treasures label: A collection of top-quality, indie games for the iPhone and iPod Touch.

The App Treasures label is a seal of quality that consumers can trust, and will help users find hidden gems in the App Store. When someone plays an App Treasures game and they like it, chances are they will also like the other games available from the label.

Developers releasing games under the App Treasures label are carefully considered and hand-picked to ensure maximum quality.

The App Treasures members are:
• The Blimp Pilots (Koi Pond, Distant Shore)
• Imangi Studios (Imangi, Word Squares, Little Red Sled)
• Snappy Touch (Flower Garden)
• Streaming Colour Studios (Dapple)
• Veiled Games (Up There, Payday Roulette)

If you have any questions, please don’t hesitate to contact me.
You can also email the entire group at: info@apptreasures.com
That’s just so cool! I hope to see more things born of 360|iDev very soon. September is going to be an awesome month, everyone will be fresh out of WWDC (next week) and cranking out 3.0 apps and games. It’s gonna be a bang up summer with lots of cool stuff.
Don’t miss out. If you missed 360|iDev in March, check out the awesome speakers and sponsors we had. We’re definitely building a lot of momentum as THE event in the iPhone community and want to continue that, we love hanging with everyone in this community,and look forward to more awesomeness!
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