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360iDev – Getting around San Jose is easy

March 30, 2010 By John Leave a Comment

If you booked your 360|iDev stay at the Marriott (or anywhere near it really), getting around is easy. We’ve got a shuttle that will run in the morning, and at night, Monday thru Wednesday.

All you gotta do is be downstairs when the shuttle is there and you’re all set, ride in comfort from the Marriott to Ebay Town Hall.

The shuttle schedule is below, make sure to keep it in mind!

April 11th: Sorry no shuttle on Sunday.

April 12th:

Morning 7am – 8am
Evening 7:30pm – 8:30pm

April 13th
Morning 7:30am – 8:30am
Evening 7:30pm – 8:30pm

April 14th
Morning 7:30am – 8:30am
Evening 5:00pm – 6:00pm

Sleep in? No worries. If you miss the shuttle, the VTA station right outside the Marriott will get you to Ebay Town hall in no time at all (well, actually about 20 minutes). It’s about $2 for a 1 way ticket.

And of course there’s plenty of parking at ebay, but it fills up fast so don’t mess around if you’re driving in.

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360iDev – Last call for volunteers. Help out – Get in for free

March 29, 2010 By John Leave a Comment

We’ve already accepted most of the volunteers we need, but we need about 3 more.

This is your last chance, if the price of a ticket is keeping you from attending, trade some time for a free pass.

We need help during registration, and with the filming of sessions, not that hard. In exchange you get a free pass to the conference, easy right?

You need to be available Saturday and Sunday before the conference, to help with SWAG bags, etc.

We need submissions by Friday.

Spread the word!

All we need is your

Name

Why you want to be a volunteer

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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 – iPad developers conference

March 19, 2010 By John 1 Comment

Of course, it only makes sense right!

the iPad runs the iPhone OS, so why wouldn’t we give it the attention it deserves? The best part is that we’ve already got sessions about it, which means, 360|iDev San Jose is the first/best place to go to learn about the differences between building games/apps for the iPad vs. the iPhone.

Several speakers have and are updating their sessions to address the iPad, Kendall is hosting a panel on Wednesday all about the iPad. (This isn’t like panels at other events, where there wasn’t an actual iPad present)

The iPad definitely represents the next step in the iPhone OS, and Apple’s mobile computing strategy, and app and game developers are chomping at the bit to release their wares for this awesome new device.

Get your iPad April 3rd, come to 360|iDev to unlock it’s potential.

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360iDev – Great news, Hotel Room block extended

March 11, 2010 By John Leave a Comment

We’ve got great news!

The San jose Marriott has extended our room block price! Now you can get our AWESOME Room block price of $99 starting Thursday the 8th, all the way thru Friday the 16th.

That means you can arrive early, stay late, all for $99!

Don’t miss out on this great offer!!

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360iDev – appsfire App Star Awards 2nd edition!

March 3, 2010 By John Leave a Comment

We’re proud to announce, our participation in the second edition of the Appsfire App Star awards!

We’re thrilled to be able to partner with appsfire, as well as the great list of buzz and media partners!

The Jury is an incredible line up ! Including our own Tom Ortega!

If you’re an app or game developer getting ready to release your wares into the app store, this contest might be the thing for you! Check it out! Last years’s contest was a huge success, we’re really excited to be a part of this one!

We’ll be announcing the winners during the Monday keynote!

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360iDev – Speaker Chat – Rod Strougo

March 2, 2010 By John Leave a Comment

Join us this week for the next in our series of 360|iDev speaker chats. Rod will be presenting on “Creating a Physics Game in 40 minutes with Cocos2D and Box2D)”

He’ll be answering any questions you’ve got for him!

Book mark this link!

The Chat starts at 12pm MST this Thursday March 4th, don’t miss it!

If you haven’t registered for 360iDev, don’t miss out. Register now for the best iPhone event around!

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360iDev – Wiki

February 26, 2010 By John Leave a Comment

If you saw the announcement of BOF sessions, you know we have a wiki we use for the ad hoc stuff around the conference.

We updated the wiki for one more bit of ad hoc. Activities.

If you’re planning a trip to the mothership or hitting a specific bar one night, or a movie on Wednesday or lunch on Saturday before the conference, whatever. Post it on the activities page of the wiki.

This way folks looking for the fun, can find it easily ;) It truly does suck to have to hunt for fun :)

On the main page of the wiki is also a few links for hotel searches in the area. If you missed the room block, shame on you, but we don’t want ya sleepin’ on the street, so check those links for other options.

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360iDev speaker chat – Brian Robbins!

February 16, 2010 By John Leave a Comment

Join us today at 12pm MST for a fun chat with speaker, Brian Robbins.

Ask him about starting his own Indie Game company, about game creation, etc. Whatever you like.

These speaker chats are a great way to get to know our speakers before 360|iDev!

Bookmark this link

See you later today!

Haven’t registered yet for 360|iDev? You’re missing out. Whether you’re a game developer, app developer, iPhone related business owner, or just someone who likes the iPhone and iPad (yeah we’ll definitely we talking about the iPad), there’s no better place to meet people in your field than 360|iDev! Register now!

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360iDev Speaker apps highlighted

February 12, 2010 By John Leave a Comment

We’re just starting this initiative, so keep an eye on the apps page for frequent updates.

I’ll admit, this idea wasn’t ours, but we love it. We tell you often how incredible our speakers are, and their bios typically tell you about some of the apps they’ve built, but not always.

So from now on, and going back retroactively, we’re going to maintain a 360|iDev speaker apps page. We’ll organize it by last name, and indicate under the speakers name their “Class” ie. San Jose 2009, Denver 2009, San Jose 2010, etc. so the page will grow. It’ll be a place where attendees can see the calibre of our speakers, and hopefully a place our speakers can get a bit more exposure for their apps. We’ll display the app icon, name, and link to iTunes.

Hopefully this will help attendees and potential attendees (and even sponsors) realize the awesomeness of our speakers. They’re pros! and deserve as much recognition as we can give them!

Check it out.

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