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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 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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360|iDev Amazing Announcment, Part 1: Matt Drance to Keynote!

August 14, 2009 By Tom 2 Comments

Matt Drance, a former iPhone and Mac Evangelist, has agreed to kick off the show at Monday’s keynote. Matt recently left the mothership, i.e. Apple HQ. When asked why he did so, he had a pretty obvious response: to become part of the amazing community.

What better place to engage the iPhone community than at 360|iDev, the premiere iPhone developers conference . Quite literally, minutes after the twitterverse got wind of Matt’s departure, we reached out to him. John and I do these shows so the members of the iPhone community (new and old) can come together meet and learn from one another. We knew that Matt would be the perfect candidate to get our “party” started.

It took a little while to work out the details, i.e. having Matt’s people call our people. (Just kidding, neither sides has “people” LOL) However, yesterday stars and planets aligned. We finally hooked up and solidified the deal.

We and Matt are stoked to be announcing this. Mike Lee kicked off the show last time and he, to quote our friend @chews, “was on like Donkey Kong.” People loved his keynote as it was just oozing with goodness. The best part was the closing, “Now, I’m off to the mothership to become a full-time employee.” Now, it’ll be interesting to hear what Matt has to say coming from the other direction. (Speaking of Mike Lee…the title of this post is Amazing Announcement Part 1. Could there be a part 2? Stay tuned!)

With little more than a month left ’til Matt’s keynote begins, you’d better figure out someway to get yourself there. First step, register for the show. The worst thing you want is to get all excited and then have the show sell-out from under you. Act fast as I’m sure you won’t regret it.

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360iDev – The Speakers – PJ Cabrera

August 10, 2009 By John 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 – iPhone Dev Conferences Compared

July 31, 2009 By John 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 – The Speakers – Chuck Smith & Judith Meyer

July 15, 2009 By Tom Leave a Comment

Internationalization is a strange beast to be sure. On the one hand, you want to make the best app with world-wide appeal. On the other, you’ve likely only mastered 1 language. Even if you know 2 or 3 languages, you still fall short from covering the gambit.

Here’s the description from Chuck and Judith‘s session entitled “Internationalizing your apps”,

Want more sales outside of the USA, but don’t know where to start? I will show you the ins and outs of each step that must be taken and give guidelines on what you can do to be sure your apps feel local to everyone around the world, including text, images and the interface itself. You will get step by step instructions on how to internationalize any application. Also learn about the language limitations in App Stores around the world and a nice way to find the right translators for your apps.

The world is your stage and these two speakers will insure you can rock it. Chuck and Judith both live in Germany, with Chuck originally hailing from the States. In my book, that offers them a bit more street cred in their talk. Don’t pretend your native language is the only important one out there, because in a global economy you can bet it isn’t.

Register now to grab 1 of the 12 remaining $360 tickets. Surely, once you’ve conquered internationalization, the new app sales will reimburse you that $360. Even if you drag your feet and buy after the price increase, world market sales can surely gross $499. Like the saying goes, “They may not know me in America, but I’m BIG in Japan!”

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360iDev – The Speakers – Joe Pezzillo & Dan Burcaw

July 14, 2009 By John Leave a Comment

We’ve all seen the app updates with “Tested on 3.0″, we’ve got AIM and Foursquare with push notifications, etc

Ever looked into Apple’s Push Notification? If you thought it was as a simple as flicking a swtich, think again!

Joe Pezzillo and Dan Burcaw will be presenting in September on “Push it Up! Implementing Apple’s Push Notifications for Fun & Profit!”

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.

Enabling Push in your app is just the start and Dan and Joe will show you how to get your application up and running with Push Notifications in no time.

You’ll get no better source than Dan and Joe, at WWDC they launched a joint venture called P ush.io which focuses on providing the needed backend to enable Push on your apps. DON’T WORRY. this session won’t be a “Sign up for Push.IO” schill fest, we wouldn’t allow it :) You can attend other conferences if you just want to be sold to.

Register now, while there’s still a few $360 tickets left. They’re going fast and won’t last much longer, then it’s $500! Still a bargain and cheaper than other “iphone” conferences with a fraction of the speakers. Don’t miss out on the premiere iPhone developers conference! Register Now!

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360iDev coming to a Mile High City near you

April 8, 2009 By John 2 Comments

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!

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