Geeking Out

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 community 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.

Playing your iPhone/iTouch through your car speakers

I don’t get to game as often as I’d like. Therefore, I’m getting very much into casual gaming, especially on my iPod Touch. The other day, I took my brother-in-law to the chiropractor after our workout at the gym. This gave me 15 minutes to play a game. I’m currently stuck on FieldRunners.

Me defending my tower...poorly. LOL

As I got ready to play, I remember that I had one of those radio transmitters for my traditional iPod. I like long road trips and love to zone out to the music. The Ford Escape, surprisingly, has a good sound system in it, including a subwoofer.

After a quick setup, I was feeling my blasts vs hearing them squeak outta the device speakers. I was getting very into it until I had that “Someone is watching me” feeling. I look up and sure enough, one of the patients had stopped to wonder why there was a war going on inside my car. The windows were down (I’m in Arizona) and I think the entire parking lot was sharing my gaming experience. :)

We’ll need to get Subatomic Studios out to our next 360|iDev to get the lowdown on the behind-the-scenes. If you’ve had a similar experience, do tell so I don’t feel like the only total geek.

360iDev at WWDC

Playing your iPhone/iTouch through your car speakers