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360iDev 2011 – Party like it’s 1999, except it’s 2011 and Prince isn’t here

September 1, 2011 By John Leave a Comment

Though you never know, Prince could show up… Ok probably not, but still.

So you know there’s parties during 360|iDev but what are they?

Well they start Sunday and go thru Wednesday!

Sunday night we have a welcome reception in the hotel from about 6-8pm. It’s a nice and mellow way to start the conference. Meet new people and re-connect with folks you know from twitter and the internet or only see at conferences.

There’s a Speaker Sponsor dinner from 5-6 to show our awesome speakers and sponsors how much we love them (don’t worry attendees we love you too and you get lots of parties).

There’s also a Night of Meat forming. More here.

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Monday Night Push.io is hosting a party at 1-Up. If drinking a 40 of King Cobra while playing Dig-Dug is your idea of fun, 1-Up is for you. Actually even if that’s NOT your idea of fun, 1-Up is a blast :) It’s a classic Arcade game bar. The entire space is arcade games and pinball machines. It’s a blast from the past for those of us old enough and a damn fun time for everyone!

Tuesday Night On3 is sponsoring a party at Mellow Mushroom, just a few blocks from the hotel on the 16th St Mall. The entire restaurant is ours, including the awesome patio. There’s TVs all over so don’t think we won’t be doing some Rock Band or youtube roulette or something else fun. The bar is open (beer only, sorry wine people) and the food will be flowing. Not only will there be an awesome buffet set up but the entire menu is open to us so if there’s something you want they’ll whip it up for you. How awesome is that!

The Parties start at 7pm. That gives you time to drop of bags and such in your room and make your way out of the hotel. Groups will form in the lobby to head out together and our awesome volunteers will be stationed along the route to make sure you know you’re almost there :)

The map right over there on the left has points for Mellow Mushroom (B) and 1Up (C). The easiest way to get to both places is the 16th St Mall Shuttle. It runs up and down 16th st all day. You can get on at Glenarm and get off right in front of Mellow Mushroom, and get off at Market St. Station for 1Up. It’s the easiest easy to get there. Depending on the weather it’ll be a nice walk too. 16th St. Mall is a great walk with lots of people watching and is a great slice of Denver (yes, that means hobos and tourists as well as locals)

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360iDev – Party it up with Disney Monday Night!

October 29, 2010 By John Leave a Comment

This is obviously for attendees only but make sure you RSVP for Monday night’s party for a chance to win some cool goodies!

RSVP HERE

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360iDev come for the sessions stay for the parties

March 29, 2010 By John 1 Comment

360|iDev is more than just sessions. I mean, the sessions are awesome, 40+ from some of the best and brightest in the iPhone dev community. And don’t get me started on the panels…. (seperate blog post)

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!

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360idev – don’t miss the app star awards! Enter now!

March 23, 2010 By John Leave a Comment

App Stars 2 is officially open! What’s that mean? It means that if you’ve got an app you’re getting ready to release, this contest is for you.

Head over and check out the rules, and submission guidelines.

The winner will be announced during our Monday keynote!

Hurry up, the window to submit your app closes the 26th! (That’s this friday!)

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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 – Birds of a Feather sessions

February 24, 2010 By John Leave a Comment

For those that don’t know what a Birds Of a Feather session is, it’s basically an ad hoc session organized by attendees or speakers, or anyone really for that matter (sorry can’t walk in off the street, gotta at least be an attendee).

Maybe it’s a Sci fi meetup or how to best create app icons, or a round table chat about the benefits of core data… whatever you want, literally. We’ve got a wiki set up with a BOFs page.

Simply go edit the page with your topic and your name. Then promote it of course. Once the listing is populated we’ll make noise too.

BOFs will take place from about 6:30 – 7:30. There’s time to enjoy the appetizers and beer and Rockband, then hop into a BOF, before heading to points unknown for the rest of the evening :)

It’s not too late to register, 360|iDev is coming up fast, don’t miss the most awesome collection of community awesomeness in one place, register now!

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360iDev – In Pictures

February 11, 2010 By John 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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360iDev – The Touch Arcade Game Jam

December 7, 2009 By John 3 Comments

What started as an idea during 360|Flex Denver, and executed with a day’s planning and work, is now “a thing”

We’re pleased to announce that 360|iDev San Jose, will host the Touch Arcade Game Jam!

The Game Jam in Denver, the brain child of Noel Llopis, who organized it, and stayed up all night to “run” things, was a huge hit, with more games being created in 10 hours, than I thought humanly possible. Touch Arcade has a great write up that links to a few others, and after Denver Touch Arcade approached us about making the Game Jam a more permanent and visible feature of the conference, which worked for us, because this kind of hacking is what we love!

Some of the projects from the Denver Game Jam are available in the store! You should check them out!

Hippo High Dive (iTunes Link) From our pals Imangi Studios

Gravity Sling (iTunes Link) from Riptide Games

for Example!

With Touch Arcade sponsoring the Game Jam, it’s gonna be epic. we’ve got time to plan for it, so it’s gonna rock, and I wouldn’t be surprised if we see 2x as many games come the Wednesday Game Jam Review.

Touch Arcade is awesome, and we’ve wanted to work with them since we started 360|iDev, so it’s great to finally get a chance! I can’t wait!

Don’t miss the Game Jam, sponsored by Touch Arcade, your game idea could be launched in a night! Register now, before the early tickets sell out, and save $100!

Don’t miss the best iPhone conference in the world!

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360iDev – DUB group for connecting onsite

September 22, 2009 By John Leave a Comment

dub_tagline_sm We had a great conversation with Chris from DUB the other day (I’ve been on the iPhone beta for a few days, and using the app for a couple of weeks)

The idea isn’t super new, it’s a business card, sans business card. What’s novel (at least to me) is that you can create groups (perfect for events) and everyone who registers for that event could (in the future) automatically get a DUB ID. Then at the event you just look at the group and see who’s there and if you want, you add them and send them your contact info. There’s

iPhone 2.5

no spamminess to it, you have to approve all inbound requests, and such, but it’s a cool way to connect with people at an event and share contact info with.

What I like is that it’s not a new contact app. It pipes all contacts (and updates) to your contacts app. Which is nice cuz I keep my contacts app and Google in sync, so a new app, would be the suck. Anytime someone I know updates their info, my address is book is up to date. Think of it as Plaxo, +mobile -what we don’t like about Plaxo.

So take a look, get the iPhone app (iTunes link) it’s free. Join the ’360idevdenver’ group, and share your contact info, leave your business cards at home!

Join the group, register for 360|iDev, before it’s too late, which it almost is! It’s gonna be a great time! Don’t miss out! Register Now!

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360iDev Party Highlight: iLime by KeyLimeTie

September 18, 2009 By Tom 1 Comment

iLime by KeyLimeTie

Our friends at KeyLimeTie have created a great new service called iLime. It’s a service to help you implement Push Notifications. To help get the word out about it, they’ve sponsored a party for the fine attendees of 360|iDev.

Join the iLime team Tuesday night. The party will take place right outside the meeting rooms. They’re party will even have an opening act: The Compilers (a local Denver band). After the compiler set, the iLime demos will start to play in heavy rotation. There won’t be a need to stay in the demo room, walk around and just check in now and then. See what the guys have to offer and tell them thanks for the party.

If you can’t wait until Tuesday night to learn about iLime’s Push services, no worries. Chris Grove, Enterprise Architect for Mobile at KeyLimeTie, will be giving a session. Here’s the details:

Integrating Push Notifications in your iPhone application with iLime

Monday, September 28, 1:00-2:20 P. M.

Chris Grove, Enterprise Architect for Mobile, KeyLimeTie

Integrating Push Notifications in your iPhone application with iLime
Monday, September 28, 1:00-2:20 P. M.
Chris Grove, Enterprise Architect for Mobile, KeyLimeTie

With the internet, there’s no need to wait until Tuesday or even Monday of the show to get in touch with these guys. You can follow them on twitter (@iLimeBuzz) or drop ‘em a line at info@ilime.com to get the conversation going. I’ve been chatting with them for weeks, and they’re a great bunch of guys.

Remember the only way to get into the party is to be at the show, so go buy your ticket pronto. We’re down to the final week. Don’t miss your chance on what’s going to be a great event!

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