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360iDev – Who attends 360idev?

March 1, 2010 By 2 Comments

360|iDev, since it’s beginning has attracted an awesome mix of people.

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!

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360iDev – In Pictures

February 11, 2010 By Leave a Comment

I posted about what you do and don’t get, and we’ve done more posts than I can count on the overall vibe, and the parties etc. So I wanted to take a minute to just post some pictures of the past 360|iDev events. I grabbed these off of flickr. The technical content you get at 360|iDev is beyond compare, truly, feel free to ask anyone who’s attended, but that’s just part of the story. The rest is the community of  iPhone developers geeking out, sharing stories, code, forming companies, finding work, etc.

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What you won’t see or get at 360iDev

February 9, 2010 By 2 Comments

It occurred to me, that it might be a good idea to make it clear what does/doesn’t happen at 360|iDev for those who might not know.

  • There are little to no marketing sessions. When we have sponsored sessions, we try to make that as clear as possible, so you know what you’re getting.
  • There is not a speaker green room. You’ll have the same access to speakers as anyone else. They’re hanging out, attending sessions etc. No Pre modonnas here (aside from Wiskus LOL), and if there are, they still can’t hide.
  • There are speakers who want to be there. Our speakers aren’t paid to be there (well, we do cover hotel room, but that’s it). We don’t invite celebrities or treat one speaker better than the rest, etc. If they’re on the schedule it’s because their topic was awesome, and they wanted to present it.
  • There is not such a large group of people that you feel like a tiny fish in a big massive pond.
  • There is no WebOS, or Android. I’m sure they’re great, we don’t hate those technologies, but they have no place at a conference for iPhone Developers
  • There are no private parties that you’re not welcome to attend. There’s 1 party each night, everyone is welcome!
  • There are 40 sessions focusing on iPhone OS development. (i.e. iPod Touch, iPhone, and iPad. That’s it, no Mac desktop development, nothing else)
  • There are no extra fees to attend. Sunday Hands-on Training – Free to all attendees. Parties at night – included in the price (actually sponsored)

If you haven’t registered for 360|iDev, you’re missing out. This is a quote from past speaker Jake Behrens, “@360iDev Thank you! The conference put my life in a direction I never imagined I’d be in. You rock!”

That’s high praise and exactly what we’re trying to do. We want to be an event where great things can and do happen, and we think we do a pretty good job of that :)

Register now!

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360idev – Floridians get some local training love!

January 25, 2010 By Leave a Comment

If you’re in Florida, we’ve got something special for you! Chris Borrello has organized a great training camp in West Palm Beach, FL.

Our pal Jeff Lamarche (who sadly, can’t make it to 360|iDev San Jose) will be doing the instruction. Below is the official blurb. If you’re nearby, you SHOULD NOT MISS, this opportunity.

iPhone Developer Training in sunny West Palm Beach Florida. March
4th-7th at the Crowne Plaza Hotel. Jeff LaMarche, iphone guru and
author of More iPhone 3 Development is coming to West Palm Beach, FL
to teach this 4 day intensive training class. He will be covering the
basics of Objective-c, Memory Management, XCode, Interface Builder,
View Controllers, Multi Touch and more. This is an excellent
opportunity for beginning to intermediate developers looking to get
into iPhone application development!

Limited seating available so you will receive great individual
attention. Hot Breakfast, Hot lunch, snacks and drinks will be served
all day. Attendees must bring their own Apple Laptops as no computers
will be provided.

More info @ http://wpbiphoneworkshop.com, email
info@wpbiphoneworkshop.com or @Keyvisuals on Twitter

This is a great opportunity for those of you down Florida way! I wouldn’t miss it! If nothing else, it’ll prep you for 360|iDev San Jose! Speaking of which, attendees to the iPhone Workshop will be given a special 20% discount code for 360|iDev San Jose! over $100 savings off the current registration price!

360|iDev has been compared to larger events as a better value for your money, and a better collection of developers in a setting where you can actually meet people and form bonds, and businesses in person! Don’t miss the best iPhone developer conference in the world! Register now!

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360iDev – Lots of cool Sunday Hands-On options

January 8, 2010 By Leave a Comment

If you haven’t checked the schedule yet for 360|iDev, you should, and you should make sure to take a look at the Sunday Hands-On stuff.

Check out and subscribe to the gCal (iCal) feed. You won’t get more up to date information anywhere else.

As always Sunday will be a busy day. Included in your registration you can pick from any of these awesome hands on options. If you’ve already registered, just send us an email and we’ll update your registration.

  • 9am – 5pm : Kendall Gelner – Advanced Debugging
  • 9am – 12pm : Joe Keeley – Intro to Quartz 2D
  • 1pm – 5pm : Jeff LaMarche – Open GL ES for the absolute beginner
  • 9am – 5pm : Appcelerator Hands-On with Titanium, and Hack Lab in the afternoon.
  • And quite likely one more, that we haven’t confirmed, but will be awesome (trust me)

As you can see, lots to keep you busy on Sunday, so plan on arriving in time to hit these up. I mean, Sunday basically turns 360|iDev into a 4 day conference, for a crazy low price.

Register now! there’s still a few of the cheaper “early” tickets left, but not many!





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360idev – it’s a wrap

October 5, 2009 By Leave a Comment

I don’t even know where to begin, trying to wrap up the conference. David does a really great job of capturing why we do what we do, read it. It’s worth the read, but here’s a few of the many gems of why I love doing what I do.

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.

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360iDev – Sunday Hands-on Training, Your Options

September 21, 2009 By Leave a Comment

In case you missed it, or we hadn’t added them when you registered, we wanted to make sure you were well aware of your training options for our Pre-Conference training Hands-on.

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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360iDev – iPhone 101 Hands On Training Sunday

September 10, 2009 By Leave a Comment

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We’re happy to announce that we’ve finally locked down the details for the iPhone 101 hands on Training. Jonathan Lehr, from About Objects, will be with us Sunday for a full day of hands on goodness!

If you’re looking at attending the iPhone 101, check out the awesome outline of what you’re going to learn!

Jonathan does training all around the globe so we know our 101′ers will be in excellent hands. You can see what other courses are offered to extend your education, post360|iDev here (iPhone) and here (Obj-C)

This is just a sample of what’s in the outline (Above)

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  • Memory Management
    • Managing retain countsjonathan-3
    • Implementing dealloc
  • Declared Properties and Synthesized Accessors
    • Property declaration syntax
    • Declared attributes
  • The Foundation Framework
    • NSObject, NSString, NSArray, NSDictionary
    • Convenience creation methods, file and URL I/O, fast enumeration
    • Plists
    • Lab: Display a list of books

This training class will have you completely ready to dive into our regular conference schedule Monday thru Wednesday and not be overwhelmed. Not only will you know what you’re getting into for the regular sessions, but you’re gonna be ready to dive in fully and come out Wednesday ready to start submitting apps!

We’re really excited to be able to offer a 101 Hands on course. Education is important and while we love that our topics trend towards the advanced, we want to make sure those with less iPhone development experience can attend the conference and still come away with a great feeling of learning.

We don’t charge for our Sunday training (Have you checked the schedule lately?) because we think there’s no reason to. We want as many of our attendees to join us Sunday to increase their knowledge and skill set. Yes, you heard that correctly!  NO EXTRA FEE for this full day of hands-on training, it’s included in your registration fee.

If you still had doubts on whether this was the show for you, hopefully this seals the deal. Make sure to register now! The price goes up on Monday by $100. We’d rather you register now and save your money :) Save the cash to do a Starbucks run for Tom (Toffee Nut Steamer), John (Mocha Frappucino) and Jonathan (not sure his order yet) during the show.  Thanks in advance!  ;)

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360iDev – The Speakers – Jay (Saurik) Freeman

August 3, 2009 By 1 Comment

If you were at the last 360|iDev in March, you’ll know we had a few sessions on Jailbraking, and that our pal Saurik even announced the Cydia store during his session.

Saurik is back, with a full day Hands-On training class onSunday! We’re really excited to have Saurik back with us, it’s important for developers to see all the aspects and possibilities in iPhone development, and jailbraking and non AppStore apps is a definite option.

Check out the description of Saurik’s class and see for yourself.

Will teach developers how to write extensions using the existing MobileSubstrate framework, as well as a soon-to-be-released runtime introspection and scripting language, both for purposes of tapping into the unofficial iPhone software market, as well as to provide people the means to understand how the existing applications perform their magic: by reaching your hands directly into their implementations. Will include a brief overview of the status the jailbroken software market, where many of these existing extensions can be found. With almost a quarter million dollars in revenues just from the 15 packages available in the Cydia Store (a small fraction of the overall jailbreak market), this area has proven itself to be a viable option for commercial development and sales.

All but one of the actual technologies I will be describing are applicable to non-jailbroken applications, but you would be limited to actually /changing/ the implementation of applications you have yourself written, although you’d be able to mess easily with things in UIKit (where a lot of the value to many users would be). In particular, the introspection framework that I am releasing is designed in such a way as to let you easily embed it into an App Store application.

It is definitely true that to get the most out of this that you can you will need to be willing to jailbreak your device (something I’d personally hope developers do anyway, in order to do more extensive testing of their application code, as well as to have better access to debugging).

This will be a great session for developers looking at alternatives to the Nazi, black box App store nightmare that Apple has created.

Of course Sunday pre-Conference training is completely free, included in the regular registration price… Wonder if other events that cost as much as 360|iDev, have perks like that? :) Register now to ensure you have a seat at the Premiere iPhone developer conference in the world!


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360iDev – Spend the Sat/Sun Sunday before 360iDev learning iPhone OpenGL programming

July 30, 2009 By Leave a Comment

We’re happy to have the pleasure to work with Noel and Dan, and the fact that they’ve decided to offer this great training, leading up to 360|iDev is just awesome! Developers can start with their training to ramp up for the full 360|iDev conference, all in the same place even!

Check out the description below!

360iDev speaker Noel Llopis will be teaching his Mobile Orchard iPhone OpenGL Programming Class the Saturday and Sunday before the conference.

Designed for CocoaTouch/UIKit programmers, Noel’s class packs everything you need to get started creating high-performance, 2D and 3D OpenGL applications into an intensive 2-day class. The class emphasizes practical knowledge and working code: you’ll write OpenGL apps showing 2D and 3D object rendering, animation, lighting, multitexturing, and point sprites.

Noel’s a master OpenGL programmer with a demonstrated ability to clearly communicate complex, graphics programming topics. He single-handedly created the critically acclaimed Flower Garden App, and his PC/console titles include The Bourne Conspiracy, Darkwatch, the MechAssault series and and Missile Command. He writes a monthly column for Game Developer Magazine and his blog shows up as the second result (after Wikipedia) for a game programmer search on Google.

Conference attendees save $300 — use “360″ as a coupon code. Only $999 with early bird registration and conference discount. Will be held in the same hotel as 360iDev; the conference’s discounted room rate applies. Details and registration at http://mobileorchard.com/opengl

Register now for 360|iDev to get the Hands-On training discount! Don’t miss out on the best iPhone developer conference this year!

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