Download the session materials here, it’s a single DMG file of every slide deck and code sample we collected, which was most of them.

The session videos are being worked on right now and those who attended the conference already have access to them. Once we get the payment handling figured out we’ll blog that URL, we definitely want anyone who wants access to the videos to be able to get them easilly and affordably. On that note, if you have any suggestions for how to handle individual purchases of videos, let us know! We’ve got plenty of streaming hosting, but have not found any turnkey solutions to sell single sessions. We’d rather not sell them all as a single download at a high price.

Save the date(s). while we don’t have a specific date/location locked in, we’re planning around September, just like Denver. RIght now we’re looking at Austin or Washington DC. I know Austin isn’t the East Coast, but we go where the largest collection of developers are. We’re researching that now.

Regardless of location, we’re looking at September, so mark your calendars.

But when the sessions are over, the parties begin.

The evening receptions give everyone a chance to decompress after having 8 hours of insanely awesome technical information jammed into their skulls. Grab a beer, some food, maybe a root beer float (That’s right!) and just hang out. Watch Joe rock out on Rock Band, chat with Mike Lee over beers, talk icon design with Dave, whatever.  The evenings of 360|iDev are a great time to meet new folks, enjoy the great community that is the iPhone dev community.

And that’s not all that’s going on during the receptions :)

We’ve introduced the idea of BOF (Birds of a feather) sessions, which are more free form, discussion type sessions, that take place during the receptions. Something you want to talk about? Post it to the BOF site. Maybe there’s a topic not covered at 360|iDev, throw out a BOF idea. The BOFs are open to any attendee, there’s no requirements, no guidelines. Want to talk about something, put it up on the list.

The BOFs are community organized. Heck, maybe a Sci Fi chat over beers BOF, skies the limit.

Our evening receptions are sponsored, so make sure you show some love to the party sponsors!

Sunday’s welcome reception is sponsored by: Double Encore

Monday night’s party is sponsored by: Ansca Mobile

Tuesday night’s party, the last official party of 360|iDev, is sponsored by: appFigures. The Tuesday night party also kicks off the Touch Arcade Game Jam!

Register now for 360|iDev San jose. Get more out of 4 days than you’ll even imagine possible!

We’re proud to announce, our participation in the second edition of the Appsfire App Star awards!

We’re thrilled to be able to partner with appsfire, as well as the great list of buzz and media partners!

The Jury is an incredible line up ! Including our own Tom Ortega!

If you’re an app or game developer getting ready to release your wares into the app store, this contest might be the thing for you! Check it out! Last years’s contest was a huge success, we’re really excited to be a part of this one!

We’ll be announcing the winners during the Monday keynote!

Register now! Don’t wait!

The first conference in 2009, had several sessions, including a sunday Hands-On about Jailbreaking, and what you can do in the jailbroken environment. We also had tons of people who had just put 1 or 2 apps in the store, we had a few folks who had already gone full time, whether as indie developers for hire, or running their own agency, building iPhone apps for companies big and small. We had authors and more in attendance. Mike Lee talked about the Apple community, and why it’s so awesome. We had sessions on how to market your app, what you need to watch out for legally and more.

Then in Denver, we noticed a shift, seeing more indie game developers in attendance. Keith and Natalia keynoted, David Whatley, an awesome late addition talked about being successful in the iPhone game space. Matt Drance formerly of Apple kicked off the conference, with an incredible keynote. We had developers talking about game design and development, being successful in the app store, making a living. We had developers talking about integrating push, getting crazy with OpenGL ES,  Core Data, Core Animation, and more. We also saw the first Game Jam take place, developers spent the night churning out games. Presenting them on Wednesday. Several are in the app store now.

Were seeing the same thing as we plan for San Jose 2010 (You should register). We’re seeing tons more successful developers talking about how to succeed, how to rock the app store, even how to rock the app store with out being a “Smash hit”. We’ve got sessions that are sure to blow your mind, and be worth more than the price of admission, just for those 80 minutes. The Game Jam is back, sponsored by Touch Arcade, Aurora Feint is holding a Game Bar, to highlight games using Open Feint and talk about the added coolness of using OF in your games. We’ve got sessions, on marketing, running your business, advertising, and more.

360|iDev has proven to be an incredible mix of technical sessions, unlike any you’ll see at other events, and business and design sessions that will inform and inspire.

So to answer the question, who attends 360|iDev? Everyone.

• Developers who want to be a success in the App Store.
• Developers who want to hear about what the rest of the world will be talking about in 6 months
• Developers who want to level up their skillset
• Developers who want to meet other developers, and share experiences, and a beer.
• People looking for work (3 people who’ve spoken at 360|iDev, have been hired by Apple, coincidence? Probably, but who knows), indies looking for projects, people looking to hire developers, etc.
• People who are already a success, making their living from apps in the App Store
• Authors of THE books you’re reading to learn iPhone Development
  • From Manning, O’Reilly, and Apress
• People with new projects and products to announce!
  • Where better to announce iPhone specific things than to a very targeted group of people.
• People who want to connect with the iPhone developer community. Not the hobbyist community, not the authors for x publisher community, THE iphone developer community. The people doing it daily, making and selling apps. The people who eat, sleep and breath iPhone development.

The short answer is, the people who attend 360|iDev…

Want to make a nice living in the App Store. (Originally it was “Want to get rich on the App Store”, but I toned it down)

Want to get hired by Apple.

:)

Do yourself and your career a favor, be in San Jose April 11-14th for 360|iDev! Register now!

I can’t even tell you how many times as a developer, AND a consumer I’ve wished for better integration with payment solutions. Not to mention, now that micro-payments are becoming the norm, it just makes sense to make collecting money easier for everyone involved.

Check out the event details, They’ve sold out, but if you’re local, they’ve got limited onsite registration space, don’t miss out!

The PayPal team has a great speaker lineup, including Tim O’Reilly as one of the keynotes. Attending will be some of the most innovative developers in the world of mobile, consumer electronics and financial services. Early adopters will demonstrate how they’re already building businesses on the PayPal platform.

All conference attendees will receive exclusive access to not-yet-released PayPal APIs. You’ll also get the chance to work directly with PayPal engineers and other developers during hands-on labs and code-and-build sessions and interact with PayPal’s leadership team.

We’ve raved on this blog about the speakers already, so I’ll wrap that up with, EVERY SINGLE ONE WAS AWESOME! That’s really all there is to say. Special thanks to David Whatley, not only did he agree to speak at the last minute, but also stepped up to moderate a frakkin’ awesome lunch time panel on “The App Store” that inspired us to make sure panels are a bigger priority in future schedules.

We had a really great time, Tom and I both agree, the 4 days of actual conference make up for the 5 months of looking for sponsors, selling tickets, dealing with hotels, etc. It’s so amazing to be with such an incredible brain trust, exchanging ideas, talking opening about troubles and successes in iPhone development.

So much cool stuff happened too, that the mind wobbles, whether it’s every attendee getting a Mobile Sketchbook, courtesy of Apress and Dean Kaplan, or Aurora Feint Releasing Open Feint 2.1.

Our official sponsor, Apress provided 30 some odd books for our raffle, and Ebags (Local Denver Company!) provided 5 backpacks as well. The raffle is our way of encouraging attendees to participate in session surveys, and it works. We had a ton of submissions and since each submission is an entry in the raffle, those who submitted for each session they attended had awesome odds, and it showed.

We also got to experience what will now be a full fledged feature of the conference. The Game Jam. Mad props to Noel for throwing it together. I admit I was little unsure whether 1 night was enough to roll out a game, even a rough one. Turns out it’s enough time to turn out several.

We’ve got 4 great classes lined up up, they’re all included in the registration price, and they’re all awesome!

Our Hands-on courses range from iPhone development 101, to an all day workshop with Saurik, the man behind the Cydia Store and celebrity in the Jailbreaking world, and everything in between.

Kendall, will be leading a half day session 8:30-12:30 on Debugging your apps, titled “Advanced debugging, peering into the great unknown” If you’re new to debugging or want to see what you don’t know, this session will rock you socks!

In the same room, after lunch we’re going to have a half day hand-on session with Appcelerator’s platform for building mobile applications, there’s options, and Appcelerator is a really cool one! They’ve got some great stuff to share, if you’re interesting in seeing what your iPhone app dev options are, check this session out!

Jay (Saurik) Freeman will be doing an all day workshop titled, “Extending Existing Applications (Techniques in Code Injection)” And don’t worry, this doesn’t require jailbreaking, most of the session is stuff you can do on a jailed device. Saurik is an iPhone mad scientist of the highest order! The Cydia store is to jailbreakers what the app store is the rest of us, it’s a wealth of incredibly cool, vetted, and often signed applications that simply make the iPhone experience that much better.

Jonathan Lehr of About Objects will be in the last Sunday session room doing a full day, iPhone Development 101. Whether you’re completely new to iPhone development or already know a thing or two, this class will fully prepare you for the next three days of 360|iDev. The outline for the class is here, take a look. It’s going to be an intense day, but a must for anyone that wants to ensure they’re ready for Monday thru Wednesday.

If when you registered the last four questions on the registration form, weren’t about training, just email us and we can update the record. You’re not locked into the class you express interest in, we just like to know how many people to plan for. So if you didn’t express an interest, but do want to join us on Sunday, let us know.

Time’s running out, missing 360|iDev could be the thing you regret most about 2009 :) hundred of iPhone developers, 40+ speakers/sessions, free hands-on training. iphone development celebrities, the works, we’ve got it, don’t miss it! Register now!

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We’ve got 2 Macro Loader bags and 3 Downloader bags

If you attended the last 360|iDev you know we like to do session surveys, they help us and help the speakers. They also enter you (as many as you fill out) into our raffles.

We’ve got a ton of awesome stuff to give away from our Official Sponsor, Apress and eBags has capped off the loot pile with these incredible laptop bags!

Register now to ensure you have a chance to win some of the great stuff we’ve got to raffle off, as well as hob nob with 40+ speakers and 200 other iPhone developers! Don’t dilly dally, time’s running out!

Today we’re very proud to announce a new partnership with Apress as the Official Sponsor of 360|iDev.

This is a very important announcement for a few reasons:

1. It’s a great fit: Speakers will pretend like they can’t possibly fill up one of our 80 minute slots, but they do.  Afterwards, they find out that they have a whole heck of a lot more to say.  What better place than a book to say that.
2. Free books: What developer in their right mind doesn’t like free books?  Not to mention that, but we’re talking quality stuff.  (Note: Tom’s read 2 of Apress dev books and loves ‘em)  When you’re the official sponsor that means you bring a whole lotta books. :)
3. Bigger Reach: 360|iDev is slowly making inroads as far as reach goes.  Granted, we don’t have name recognition like WWDC does, but we’re slowly getting there.  With Apress, we can hopefully reach a lot more developers out there that can benefit from the conference.

Having an official show sponsor is a new thing for us.  It’s something that we’ll have to investigate and grow, much like everything we do in relation to the shows.  The most important thing for us though is making sure that the official sponsor is a great fit for our attendees.

We’ll be honest.  The concept/idea wasn’t ours.  We’ve been chatting with the folks at Apress for the past couple of weeks in an attempt to expand their participation at the event.  From editors to marketing folks, everyone we’ve chatted with has been awesome!  It’s therefore with great excitement that we announce them as the first Official Sponsor of 360|iDev.  It’s a relationship that we hope will continue to grow and evolve as the show does.

For those of you waiting on the sidelines, wondering if this show will be a good fit for you, wait no more.  With Apress as the official sponsor, this edition of 360|iDev is going to be that much better.  Register now and join what’s sure to be a great event.

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!