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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 Party Highlight: iLime by KeyLimeTie

September 18, 2009 By 1 Comment

iLime by KeyLimeTie

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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360iDev – The Speakers – Joe Pezzillo & Dan Burcaw

July 14, 2009 By Leave a Comment

We’ve all seen the app updates with “Tested on 3.0″, we’ve got AIM and Foursquare with push notifications, etc

Ever looked into Apple’s Push Notification? If you thought it was as a simple as flicking a swtich, think again!

Joe Pezzillo and Dan Burcaw will be presenting in September on “Push it Up! Implementing Apple’s Push Notifications for Fun & Profit!”

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.

Enabling Push in your app is just the start and Dan and Joe will show you how to get your application up and running with Push Notifications in no time.
You’ll get no better source than Dan and Joe, at WWDC they launched a joint venture called Push.io which focuses on providing the needed backend to enable Push on your apps. DON’T WORRY. this session won’t be a “Sign up for Push.IO” schill fest, we wouldn’t allow it :) You can attend other conferences if you just want to be sold to.
Register now, while there’s still a few $360 tickets left. They’re going fast and won’t last much longer, then it’s $500! Still a bargain and cheaper than other “iphone” conferences with a fraction of the speakers. Don’t miss out on the premiere iPhone developers conference! Register Now!
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