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360iDev – You do Mac apps?

December 13, 2011 By John Leave a Comment

Have you ported your app/game to the Mac Appstore? Thought about it?

The current video on the 360|MacDev home page is Dave Wiskus and Kyle Richter talking about building an iOS app that lead to building a Mac App.

360|MacDev 2010 was pre Mac Appstore and the dialogue was great. Tons of talk about what the future would look like post App store.

Guess what, it’s the future!!! Come talk to Mac app successes, and learn from the best and brightest! Check out the rock star line up and schedule.

Don’t miss out! Register now!

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360idev – 42 session recordings for 2011

December 2, 2011 By John 2 Comments

Not bad.

The 360|iDev 2011 session recordings bundle has 42 70 minute sessions in it. I think that’s the most sessions we’ve captured and been able to produce to date.

Next year the plan is to try something different as Flip cams just aren’t designed for capturing conference sessions, and really with the exception of Mike, seeing the presenter isn’t that important to the presentation. :)

We’re going to focus on getting better at capturing the screen only. Our speakers show a lot of code, and that’s the important part. We want you to be able to watch the video and clearly see the code. Where ever possible we did that this year if a screen recording existed, but many didn’t. We’re also working out the best rendering methods (video production isn’t something we’re trained in, LOL) to make sure the videos aren’t crazy huge, but are still viewable.

If you haven’t already taken a peak at the videos go check ‘em out. They’re pretty damn cheap and even the bundle isn’t a bank breaker.

If you attended 360|iDev 2011 you received an email with a code in it. that code is good for the bundle, use it as you need to get the videos.

Of course the videos are all DRM free mp4 files. Watch ‘em on as many devices as you want. Show your coworkers or business partners.

See you in 2012!

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360iDev 2011 – 31 days to go!

August 10, 2011 By John Leave a Comment

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!

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360iDev – Speaker Dave Wiskus

October 5, 2010 By John 2 Comments

Dave found 360|iDev before he was even a part of the community. At the first ever 360|iDev Dave was in San Jose for his then day job, and came out to meet Brent Simmons at some event Brent was attending. Dave and I both live in Denver and knew each other, but he didn’t know I ran events. I saw him standing outside the conference and invited him in… A year and some change later the rest is history :)

Q: How long have you been doing iOS development?

A: About a year and a half. I quit my day job about seven months ago, and joined Double Encore shortly after that.

It’s been awesome to watch Dave move from guy who owned an iPhone to successful iPhone developer all from that first meeting at 360|iDev San Jose ’09

Q: What do you like most about being an iOS Developer?
A: The community: these people clearly love what they do. This isn’t a job, it’s a lifestyle.

The iOS Community truly is one of the best I’ve ever experienced! Whether helping each other promote apps, or collaborating on a project there’s no end to the greatness of this community.

Q: What’s your favorite Game?

A: Mail. Or Words With Friends.

Awesome! I love mail!! one of my favorite games of all time! Words with friends (iTunes Link) is fun too! I’m jwilker

Q: What’s your favorite App?
A: Boxcar. Because it means never having to frantically delete a post that was intended to be a direct message because I didn’t realize I was using the SMS app.

awesome. I’ve done that enough to warrant using boxcar! (iTunes Link)

Q: Robots or Ninjas?

A: We live in the future; why should I have to choose just one? I demand a robot ninja.

The Future is frakkin’ marvelous!

Q: What would change about the iOS platform if you could change just one thing?

A: Smart image scaling. If I do every @2x asset with even-number pixel dimensions, the phone should automatically scale down for non-retina displays.

Kinda surprising that’s not in there, definitely a suck point to make Developers and Designers deal with that, that if nothing else screams SDK/OS feature.

Q: What are you most excited about 360|iDev Austin?

A: I want to see Mike Lee give his talk dressed as a pirate.

I heard that was done at some other event, I think he should dress like a care bear.

Q: What would you tell someone on the fence about attending 360|iDev Austin?

A: iDev launches careers. The networking opportunities alone are worth the trip, to say nothing of the speaker line-up.

Don’t miss Mike Lee dressed like a care bear, and 30+ other great speakers delivering 40+ kick ass sessions! Register now! See you in Austin!

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360iDev Touch Arcade Game Jam

March 25, 2010 By John 2 Comments

Have a game idea you’ve been saving for when you have the time? Maybe you need to learn cocos2d first to do the game you want. Maybe you have too many other things going on, but the moment you have a few hours, it’s on.

Well, the Touch Arcade Game Jam, is for you :)

Starting Tuesday night, after the evening reception, we’ll be locking (Not really) anyone who wants to into a room at Ebay to crank out code all night long, 12 straight hours, through the night.

Touch Arcade is sponsoring, and will keep you hydrated, fed, and loaded up on Toblerone and Red bull.

When everyone else comes back to Ebay Town hall for the Wednesday General Session (Mike Lee, ya’ll) the Game jammers will be done, and ready to show off their creations.

Whether you’re a game developer right now or not, the game jam is the best place for you to try it out.

3 days to write an app? p-shaw! In Denver we saw something like 15 games demoed. Some made it to the app store shortly after, some are still being worked on for future (soon) release.

Come learn from experienced game developers first hand, in person.
The Game Jam is open to any 360|iDev attendee. Make sure you have a power cord :)

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360iDev – Who attends 360idev?

March 1, 2010 By John 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 Registration – $499, Time with Mike Lee and Matt Drance – Priceless

August 25, 2009 By Tom 1 Comment

Many people dream of visiting the mothership, Apple HQ in Cupertino. A relative few make it into the sacred walls to actually find work there. To work at Apple, you have to be good great at what you do. All the products we know and love are a testament to that fact.

If you’re in the iPhone development scene, access to those that have or are inside the sacred walls is truly priceless. It’s the reason that WWDC sold out. Now, we’re not claiming that chatting with these two fellas at 360|iDev beats chatting with entire teams at WWDC. It’s close though! LOL

Now, don’t get us wrong. We’re making a pretty big deal about these guys, but they’re not all the show has to offer. We have 40+ sessions led by the best of the best in indie developers, biz dev folks, etc. They are definitely the substance of the show. @drance and @bmf are just the lipstick and the eyeshadow (we’ll let them fight over which is wihich!)

However, even the speakers themselves realize how special it is to hang with these two. Aside from their knowledge of iPhone dev, mac dev, objective-c, startups, etc., these two are just nice guys that you’d want to hang with and share some good times with.

We just announced yesterday that prices will steadily be going up after 8/31. So hurry up and buy your tickets now while it’s still just $499.

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