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360iDev 2011 – Crowne Plaza…. FULL

So…

you dilly dallied about booking your hotel for 360|iDev. Maybe you’re still dilly dallying about registering… Well Like we warned everyone months ago would happen, the Crowne Plaza has filled up our block. That means there’s no room at the Inn.

 

You’re not without options of course. Below are the three nearest hotels to the Crowne. All are within walking distance. We can’t promise a rate as good as we got for the room block, but you never know, maybe you’ll luck out.

 

Hilton Garden Inn
1400 Welton Street
Denver, CO 80202
(303) 603-8000
Hyatt Regency
650 15th Street
Denver, CO 80202
(303) 436-1234
Embassy Suites
1420 Stout Street
Denver, CO 80202
(303) 592-1000
Denver Marriott City Center
1701 California Street
Denver, CO 80202
(303) 297-1300

 

 

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360iDev 2011 – 31 days to go!

You know how many tickets are left? Less than 40.

Yes less than 40 tickets left for 360|iDev 2011. That means we’re closer to selling out than we’ve ever been. EVAR!

 

What’s that mean? Well if you haven’t bought a ticket, better get on it. Not only are tickets running low, so are hotel rooms. We’re gonna own the Crowne Plaza.

If you have bought your ticket, well you’re gonna be in some truly awesome company.

 

Sure there’s lots of other iOS conferences, but none are focused on the community like we are. Don’t miss out!

Register now!

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360iDev 2011 – Community App Awards Nominations

We did this in Austin, and this year we mean to make it a little more formal and classy :)

Got an app or game or twitter client you love and think deserves some attention? Nominate it! Use this form. Voting will start in a few weeks.

Spread the word. Let’s really show the world how the iOS community supports each other.

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360iDev 2011 – Not too late to Volunteer

Can’t quite cover the cost of travel, hotel and conference ticket? Well we can’t help too much on travel and hotel (Though there’s plenty of folks looking for roommates) but we can give you a free ticket. All we ask is that you volunteer to help make 360|iDev rock!

 

We need folks to help work the registration table, handing out shirts, and badges, as well as attend sessions to record the session videos.

 

Yup that means you still get to attend the conference, go to sessions, hit up the parties at night, all that good stuff.

You actually get all the benefits of an attendee, so you don’t miss out, we just assign you sessions to record. We do our best to make sure the sessions you’re recording are ones you want to attend as well.

We need a small army of volunteers, so don’t be shy. Check out this page for more information on submitting to volunteer. Hurry up, 360|iDev is almost here! Spread the word

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360iDev 2011 – Just 39 Days to go!

Are you a game developer? Want to be? Maybe just want to brush up on your dev skills with a little out of the box development.

 

The Game Jam is for you. And as it turns out, by you. The 360|iDev 2011 Game Jam will take place Tuesday night, sponsored by the iOS community!

The Game Jam is a great place to build your first game, or your tenth. To share what you know and learn new things.

Check out the official page, managed by our pal (and speaker) Mike Berg.

The first time Noel Llopis suggested the Game Jam to us, we loved it. Ever since then we’ve been more than happy to have one take place.

The Game Jam starts around 7pm, and goes until around 8. It’s fully hands on, bring your laptop, we’ll supply the red bull, coffee and snacks.

Then if you like, you can show off your hard work during lunch on Wednesday at the Game Jam Review.

 

See you there! Make sure you register before we sell out!

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360iDev 2011 – Just 58 days to go!

You know what’s in 58 days? 360|iDev 2011. The only 360|iDev this year.

Space at the hotel is almost gone, staying elsewhere is always an option, but we’ve got a good rate with the hotel might as well save some money… Don’t ya think?

This post is the beginning of a series of posts I’m gonna write counting down to the conference. Not daily or anything, but often. Each will have things you should know about the conference.

 

The first and most important thing you should know about 360|iDev is why we do it. We do it because back in 2009 we recognized that the iOS developer community had no central event to come together around. We launched 360|iDev to offer that. We found speakers via forums like Touch Arcade, and the Apple Dev forums. We reached out to people we knew or had heard of via twitter.

We didn’t make any money, but we didn’t expect to either. Making money is a huge plus and we wouldn’t have been upset if we had, but it wasn’t the goal. Nor was filling a conference center with 600 people.

 

In fact the first 360|iDev in 2009 only had 166 attendees, some 30 of which were speakers. We jumped to 222 in Denver in 2009. Our return to San Jose in 2010 brought 301 attendees. Our most recent 360|iDev in Austin TX saw a slight decline in numbers, 235.

We never wanted to be a 600+ person conference. The community can surely support that, and based on the popularity of iOS conferences this and last year, surely there’s interest in events. But what we always thought was special about 360|iDev and our other events was that we don’t want to be the biggest conference ever. We want to be the one where you can walk the halls and say hi other developers and know that those people know the pains of Cocoas2D, or Gamekit, etc.

We wanted to be the conference where rockstars in the community are eating lunch with a developer who’s just getting started, maybe he’s just decided to go indie and live his dream. The conference where the speaker from the session you were just in is sitting next you in this session, because while she’s a bad ass at OpenGL ES maybe she’s still wrapping her head around something else.

 

From the start we believed that providing an event that brought the community together was reward enough, we still do.

 

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360idev 2011 Labs

Having trouble with your code? Maybe need some design feedback?

This year we’re launching the 360|iDev labs. Labs work like at WWDC and other events, our awesome speakers have agreed to hang out in the new lab area and help our attendees.

The lab schedule is below the regular schedule. Take a look.

We left a few spots open for drop in lab help.

We how the labs will be a great way for the community to grow and he each other.

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360idev 2011 – Attendee (and speaker)badges!

Show your love and support of 360|iDev with our (mostly) new badges. Got a blog, these fit real nice like in a sidebar :) No blog, scale ‘em down as a twitter avatar.

 

Let everyone know you’ll be at the only iOS developer conference created for the iOS developer community. Oh and of course, the only one with over 50 sessions, 40 speakers, and free hands-on training :)

Just save-as and away you go!

 

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360iDev 2011 – WWDC Recap

Well another WWDC has come and gone, my liver survived, mostly. Hope yours did :)

As always WWDC is a week of crazy parties, sessions, more parties, sessions, a beer bash, and a few more parties. And thrown in in-between, meeting new folks, and re-meeting folks you already know.

Of course the nights were packed with parties, some open to all, others not so much. I can’t say what those parties are like, but this post seems to sum up who was at those parties and what they were like. I attended awesome parties aimed at developers and open to all, like the really really fun push.io party! and others by folks like Mobclix, iPhone Alliance, SFMacIndie, and more. WWDC Parties are a ton of fun, and a valuable experience in and of themselves, I wish I had more of me to attend the ones I missed!

This year like last, i opted to not buy a WWDC ticket and simply attend parties and be around all week. I don’t write much code now, so why take a ticket from a dev who really wants to be there for sessions? Didn’t make much sense.

Being outside also gave me time to hide USB drives around for our annual (3rd annual if you can believe that!) WWDC USBHunt. All but 1 drive was found/claimed. The last drive was found or at least moved, but not claimed. Seems to happen to 1 drive a year. Odd.

Other than the missing drive, the USBHunt was a huge hit, no drive was in the wild for more than about 30 minutes, not bad! Having $600 worth of software from awesome indie devs doesn’t hurt one bit! Congrats to everyone who found the drive, and hope to see you in September!

I’ve got to come up with something bigger for next year!

If you haven’t booked your trip to denver this September you should probably get on it. We’re still about 4ish months out, but have already sold more than 50% of our tickets. This is shaping up to be the biggest 360|iDev ever.

 

See you there!

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360idev 2011 – WWDC Scavenger hunt – what’s on the drives?

Well WWDC is just around the corner… like literally, it’s next week! There’s lots of 360|iDev goodness to be had if you’re around SF. If you haven’t bought your ticket, stop by and find me (usually at the starbucks next to Moscone) for a 30% discount ticket!

I’ll also have lots and lots of moo cards, with 15% off codes on them if you aren’t able to register right there on the spot with me. Sorry to get the 30% you gotta buy it right there during WWDC.

So what can you expect to find on the drive if you find one? Well thanks to our pals Double Encore we’ve got 5 shiny silver USB drives that we’ll be hiding. When you find one, come trade it in for a 2gb Santa Bot. We were gonna hide Santa bot, but were worried they’d be too easy to spot, and we’d find them in the clutches of San Francisco hobos not Apple Developers :) SO find the Silver, come claim Santa Bot :)

So what’s gonna be on Santa Bot? Lots!

Each one will have a free pass code for 360|iDev 2011 (Value: $599)

Thanks to the awesome and supportive indie iOS dev community, we’ve got a ton of app promo codes available, and some some free eBook codes. (Value: $188)

Check out what we’ve got in store (so far).

Terminology (and Terminology Ph) (iTunes Link)
Stereomatic (iTunes Link)
News Anchor (Mac App Store Link)
Cloud Pull (Mac App Store Link)
ScoutTrail (iTunes Link)
Lock Screen V2 (iTunes Link)
Flashlight (iTunes Link)
Funeral Notebook (iTunes Link)
Clock Radio (iTunes Link)
Onetime (iTunes Link)
Geronimo (iTunes Link)
Calc 12c (iTunes Link)
Wild Fables (iTunes Link)
myLight (iTunes Link)
Monkey Business (iTunes Link)
Code for 1 free eBook
Inner Ear (iTunes Link)
Swivel (iTunes Link)
Property Evaluator (iTunes and Mac App Store)
Galcon for iPhone and iPad (iTunes Link)
FoodCombo (iTunes Link)
Plane Finder HD (iTunes Link)
Objectify (Mac App Store)
Disc Golf Scorekeeper (iTunes Link)
Mathemagics (iTunes Link)
Equalizer (iTunes Link)
The Bond Mixology (iTunes Link)
Colorflys HD (iTunes Link)
Photo Lapse (iTunes link)