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360iDev – So… 360|Mac?

May 17, 2010 By John Leave a Comment

Interesting times, no?

It’s sad to see Wolf close up C4. Sad to see Apple basically snub it’s nose at the mac desktop crowd.

Makes me wonder if (I’ve entertained this thought a few times) there should be a 360|Mac? Aimed specifically at the desktop app builders, bringing the same great content (Maybe more/better parties) the iPhone community has come to expect.

Nothing is firm, this is more just my thinking out loud post. I do love Mac desktop apps, I do think it’s a bummer that Apple is focusing all of WWDC on the iPhone.

What do you think? Point your mac dev friends to this post. if there’s interest, let’s do it.

Remember, this fall. 360|iDev Austin.

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360idev – Hang out/recharge during WWDC

May 11, 2010 By John 4 Comments

I’ll be in San Francisco the week of WWDC with a room at the Marriott.

This year I won’t be attending the conference, but will be still doing the USB drive Scavenger hunt.

I’ll also be making my room available during the day for anyone that wants to hang out, take a break from WWDC, grab a red bull or granola bar, etc. Hopefully this is useful for the folks who’s hotels aren’t as close to Moscone. Maybe you want to drop your bag off for a little while, etc.

Think of it as a small hospitality suite across the street from WWDC.

I’ll post some more details, but wanted to get the word out, that my door would be open.

The USB drive scavenger hunt is gonna be fun. Last year we had 8 drives, and all but one were found. Each drive has a free pass to the next 360|iDev, as well as tons of promo codes for apps. They’ll be hidden around Moscone center, during the week, and I’ll be tweeting clues and pictures about the locations.

Also, we’ll be selling super early bird, half off tickets to the next 360|iDev, so if you’re thinking of going, this is a great way to make sure you get the best price!

See you in San Francisco!

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360idev – the wrap up

April 27, 2010 By John 5 Comments

Well, 360|iDev San Jose has come and gone. And while I work on the fall event. You know the one right after WWDC (assuming it’s announced soon) where we all publicly talk about the cool NDA stuff we’ve been playing with for months. You can enjoy the awesome session materials from San Jose.

Download the session materials here, it’s a single DMG file of every slide deck and code sample we collected, which was most of them.

The session videos are being worked on right now and those who attended the conference already have access to them. Once we get the payment handling figured out we’ll blog that URL, we definitely want anyone who wants access to the videos to be able to get them easilly and affordably. On that note, if you have any suggestions for how to handle individual purchases of videos, let us know! We’ve got plenty of streaming hosting, but have not found any turnkey solutions to sell single sessions. We’d rather not sell them all as a single download at a high price.

Save the date(s). while we don’t have a specific date/location locked in, we’re planning around September, just like Denver. RIght now we’re looking at Austin or Washington DC. I know Austin isn’t the East Coast, but we go where the largest collection of developers are. We’re researching that now.

Regardless of location, we’re looking at September, so mark your calendars.

Filed Under: Announcements, Community, Geeking Out, Reasons to Come, San Jose, speakers, Sponsors Tagged With: 360|iDev pricing, Community, Game Development, location, USBHunt, WWDC

360iDev – Get your iPad Dev on!

February 3, 2010 By John Leave a Comment

So yeah, iPad this iPad that :) The best part of Apple’s new iPad, is that it runs the iPhone OS, that means our awesome speakers and attendees now have one more kick ass platform to write apps and games for.

That also means that 360|iDev is now THE event for developers writing apps for the iTouch, the iPhone, or the iPad. You won’t have to wait for WWDC, or for the next 360|iDev around the end of summer some time. You can get awesome iPad related sessions right now, this April.

We’ll be working with our speakers to update any presentations that make sense, to include iPad related materials, but right now we know for certain, Kendall Gelner, who’s delivering our Sunday Adv. Debugging session, will be leading a panel discussion on the iPad.

This panel will be awesome, how can it not be. 360|iDev falls right around when the iPad should begin shipping. That means there’s gonna be a lot to talk about!

We’ll keep you posted as we update more sessions to include iPad stuff.

Don’t miss out on the most technically deep conference for developers around. 40+ sessions, 40 speakers, 4 days, hands-on training. All for a really awesome price! Half the price of most training sessions, which only cover 1-2 things.

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360iDev – USB Drive Scavenger hunt

September 15, 2009 By John 1 Comment

The WWDC Scavenger hunt/dead drop was a ton of fun. We’re doing it again, though slightly different. It’s open to anyone at 360|iDev

It’s gonna be a bit different this time, and not as easy :)

There’s only gonna be 2 USB drives. We’ll tweet some clues and photos like we did at WWDC, but you’ll only have 2 chances to win.

Win?

If we make you run around, you’re getting some goodies out of it.

Right now (remember I said the list would grow, we’ll work on adding more good stuff) you’ll get a promo code for the following 4 apps Dapple, Flower Garden, geoDefense Swarm, Up There (iTunes links). Thanks to our friends at App Treasures!
We’ve also got a free pass to the next 360|iDev conference!
We’ll include all of 360|iDev San Jose’s content in case you missed that event.
More to be announced soon!

Remember you must be an attendee to win! Register now! Don’t miss the best iPhone conference of 2009!

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360iDev – The Speakers – Joe Pezzillo & Dan Burcaw

July 14, 2009 By John 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 P ush.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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360iDev – Post WWDC Recovery

June 18, 2009 By John Leave a Comment

We’re home now, recovering from our first WWDC. What a crazy week! It was our first WWDC, so we went in with no prior experience and lots of expectations.

We started the week off right, we met up with Rana from Medialets for drinks and a little work talk about InsideMobile and 360|iDev. Rana rocks, there’s little else to be said on the topic, she’s awesome, knows her stuff, and knows everyone. We’re very excited to be working with Medialets again.

After that it was keynote line ride time. We got up early (not crazy early, since when we went back to our hotel at around 10pm I think, there was already 1 guy in line) Our place in line . We were around 407 in line, we got there about 7am IIRC. Yeah it’s crazy.

Having now ridden the WWDC line ride, I think I’m good. It’s not something I need to do again.

The line didn’t move at all until about 7:30 or so. Then we slowly filed into the Moscone center. Where there were donuts and bagels and coffee waiting for us. Then we waited some more, but at least it was warm and we could sit down.

We met the guys behind dogood (iTunes link), which is an awesome ‘pay it forward’ application. Check it out, and who doesn’t need help with Karma points!?

The keynote was cool, neat stuff announced hardware wise, nothing too “OH MY GOD”

Tom and I left the keynote just before the iPhone 3G S was revealed to take in the Symbian Hackathon. Symbian is really working to get more developers exposed to the platform which is great. Giving away free 5800′s is a huge move in the right direction. Developers aren’t likely to strike out into a new platform, for no reason, with no way to actually play with their code. Having a free phone to test with, reduces many barriers to adoption. It’s definitely gutsy to throw an event in enemy territory, but Symbian pulled it off. The hackathon had a good turnout, and a few folks even wrote some code onsite and played with it, experiencing the deployment to a Symbian device, they did a good job.

Palm on the other hand :( I’ll admit our expectations were set by Symbian, but Palm broke a major rule. How do you have a Palm Pre developer get together with no Palm Pres in sight? Nothing about MojoSDK either. Just drinks and some food. Granted, giving a Pre woulda been costly, but you’re trying to steal developers away from another camp. Drastic times call for drastic measures. At the very least, have some Pres lying around to play with. We got more face time with a Pre during Rana’s drink hour (see above), then we did at the Palm Pre party. Not a good way to attract developers.

WWDC as a whole is a neat event, but too long, and too ‘line ride-ish. Every session starts with a line. Since there’s very few sessions in general , each one was several hundred people in size, sometimes over 1000. That’s just too big. There’s very little if any developer community involvement, sessions are given by Apple engineers, and range between reiterating what’s in the docs to fairly code intensive deep dive stuff.

The nightlife of WWDC is insane. There seemed to be, on any given night, 5 or more competing/overlapping parties. Between parties to launch companies or apps, to just plain “Come hang out on my dime” parties, it was intense. Syncing up with friends was an effort, with “we’re at X” only to arrive and see a tweet “We moved to Y”

I’m all for parties and keeping everyone entertained, but I didn’t attend a single party that was good for anything but drinking and losing your voice to have a conversation. You couldn’t mingle because it was too crowded, conversations were tough, because of the volume of the other 100-200 people jammed into the same small place, and if music was playing, well just shut up and drink.

The Best part?

Meeting new people in the hallways, and syncing up with our speakers from 360|iDev San Jose. The USB drive hunt was also a ton of fun, and seemed to be very well received. We had 7 USB drives packed with discounts on products, promo codes for games, and sneak peaks at new services, and each drive (except one that we think is in a Hobo’s pocket) was claimed fairly quickly after being dropped off. The buzz around the hunt was incredible. Next year it’ll be even better with more goodies on the drives! We’ll be picking one of our USB Hunters to receive an iPod Touch, sometime this week.

Haven’t registered for 360|iDev? Want 40+ sessions over 4 days of iPhone content from the leaders in the industry? Register now! If you thought the iPhone content at WWDC was good, just wait!

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360iDev – USB Hunt is on!

June 11, 2009 By John Leave a Comment

We’ve started the USB Drive Hunt! Spread the word!

We’ve got 7 USB drives, with 50% off codes for 360|iDev and InsideMobile!

Not to mention 30% off codes for the Fastmac IV and a pre-release invite for push.io

Oh yeah, and a bunch of promo codes for games from the App Treasures crew.

There’s also all the content from 360|iDev San Jose! You’ll see the type of content you can expect from 360|iDev Denver!

Oh and it’s a 2gb USB drive too!

We’ve already hidden 2 of the drives, here and here! The rest will be hidden throughout the day, including 1 at the Beer Bash tonight, and 1 at the Coloroad companies party at Tempest! Be there!

Follow the 360idev twitter account and/or the hashtag #usbhunt

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360iDev at WWDC

June 2, 2009 By John Leave a Comment

Tom and I will be heading to San Francisco this weekend for WWDC. We can’t wait, it’s our first WWDC!

We’re actually planning to attend some sessions, which will be nice! I know my own learning Obj-C efforts stalled out a bit, so getting some good session time in will rock. The downside of 360|iDev, we can’t attend it :)

We’ll also be trying to meet as many folks as we can to talk about 360|iDev, make sure the iPhone community knows about the conference, and for those interested in getting in early before the cheap tickets sell out, we’ve got an awesome “I found Tom and John” discount price of $200 for all 4 days of the conference.

We’ve got moo cards to hand out to people we meet, I really dig ‘em

We’ve already got some awesome speakers lined up, but there’s plenty of room for more! Once WWDC closes, and we know exactly what can be talked about in [redacted] and what doesn’t make it and is still NDA, etc, we’ll be adding speakers like crazy since they submitted [redacted] topics.

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