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360iDev – The Speakers – 2D gaming with Cocos2d with Serban Porumbescu

August 20, 2009 By John 2 Comments

Serban Porumbescu will be with us talking about Cocos2d, and creating 2D games, in his “Introduction to 2D Game Programming with cocos2d” session.

-cocos2d is one of the most popular open source projects for the iphone

- over 100 games shipped, with a number of them in the top 10

- This introductory course will get you up to speed on:

Basic architecture of the engine
Using Sprites and their more efficient counterpart, AtlasSprites
User interaction (dealing with touch and multitouch events)
Particle system
Screen transitions
Actions

This session will be great for people looking to get into game development. Sure 3D is awesome, but we all start somewhere, and plenty of awesome games (My personal faves) are 2D games.

Make sure you check out Serban’s session and get your brain topped off on cocos2D awesomeness and game dev!

Make sure you register before we sell out! Register now to ensure you have a spot at the best iPhone developer conference in the world! Yeah, world! You’re not going to get better hands-on and technical content anywhere else.

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360iDev Travel info

August 18, 2009 By John 2 Comments

We tend to focus on Hub cities, as such directions are are easy :)

Driving yourself

From DEN.

YOu can follow the Google Map directions here.

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Coming from the South:

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That’s about it. If you’re coming from the East or West, you’re probably on the 70 already :)

Non car options!

A taxi ride will run about $50 door to door. Super Shuttle’s are usually a little less than a cab.

There’s car services a plenty that can be reached, but cab or super shuttle are the most cost effective, and traffic shouldn’t be an issue on a weekend. You’re getting here in time for the Free hands-on training right? It’s free to all registered attendees, no additional cost.

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360iDev – The Speakers – Joe Pezzillo and Dan Burcaw

August 11, 2009 By John Leave a Comment

Push is the next new big thing! As more and more apps begin implementing push notification, it becomes clear that the need for the back end infrastructure is going to go through the roof!

Veteran iPhone application developers Dan and Joe have formed a new company push.IO

“Push it Up! Implementing Apple’s Push Notifications for Fun & Profit!” Is sure to be an eye opening session. Showing developers what’s involved in implementing push. It’s not as easy as flipping a bit, so this session will be a must see for those looking to implement push in their apps, and unsure of the next steps, or where to go for the backend support they’re going to need.

Just take a look at the session description.

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.

Make sure you don’t delay! Register now to ensure you have a spot at the table! Tickets are moving fast and September 27th isn’t that far away! Register Now!

Make sure you book your rooms with the Curtis before out special room block expires! Save some coin! Click here for details

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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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