It’s 3 days, in New York, with two incredible developers! Check out the course plan here.

Julio and Jeff are both long time speakers at 360|iDev, and great guys. Both far smarter than me :)

If you’re in or around New York, check out this course. You won’t find a better pair to teach you everything you need to know. After all Jeff’s book is one of the best intro to iPhone dev books around.

This will be an excellent way to jump start your iPhone development, and then of course, you can top off your mental tank at 360|iDev Austin! Register now for $499!

What there is, is 3-4 people working the registration desk.

You can pick up your badge all day Sunday if you want to avoid the rush. If you can’t make it to Ebay Town Hall until Monday morning, we recommend getting there by 7:30 to avoid missing the keynote by David Whatley of Critical Thought Games (You know, Geo Defense Swarm…)

The registration desk will be broken down into letter groups by Last Name.

Schedules will be printed out and in your bag.

See this post for the shuttle schedule, and general how to get around San Jose information.

Our iPhone app, has a map of Ebay, the complete schedule, and your session survey app.

It’s not too late (but it almost is) to register for 360|iDev! Don’t miss out, register now!

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!

Register now for 360|iDev San jose. Get more out of 4 days than you’ll even imagine possible!

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.

Register now! Don’t miss the developer conference that will super charge your career! Register now!

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!

• There are little to no marketing sessions. When we have sponsored sessions, we try to make that as clear as possible, so you know what you’re getting.
• There is not a speaker green room. You’ll have the same access to speakers as anyone else. They’re hanging out, attending sessions etc. No Pre modonnas here (aside from Wiskus LOL), and if there are, they still can’t hide.
• There are speakers who want to be there. Our speakers aren’t paid to be there (well, we do cover hotel room, but that’s it). We don’t invite celebrities or treat one speaker better than the rest, etc. If they’re on the schedule it’s because their topic was awesome, and they wanted to present it.
• There is not such a large group of people that you feel like a tiny fish in a big massive pond.
• There is no WebOS, or Android. I’m sure they’re great, we don’t hate those technologies, but they have no place at a conference for iPhone Developers
• There are no private parties that you’re not welcome to attend. There’s 1 party each night, everyone is welcome!
• There are 40 sessions focusing on iPhone OS development. (i.e. iPod Touch, iPhone, and iPad. That’s it, no Mac desktop development, nothing else)
• There are no extra fees to attend. Sunday Hands-on Training – Free to all attendees. Parties at night – included in the price (actually sponsored)

If you haven’t registered for 360|iDev, you’re missing out. This is a quote from past speaker Jake Behrens, “@360iDev Thank you! The conference put my life in a direction I never imagined I’d be in. You rock!”

That’s high praise and exactly what we’re trying to do. We want to be an event where great things can and do happen, and we think we do a pretty good job of that :)

Register now!

Our pal Jeff Lamarche (who sadly, can’t make it to 360|iDev San Jose) will be doing the instruction. Below is the official blurb. If you’re nearby, you SHOULD NOT MISS, this opportunity.

iPhone Developer Training in sunny West Palm Beach Florida. March
4th-7th at the Crowne Plaza Hotel. Jeff LaMarche, iphone guru and
author of More iPhone 3 Development is coming to West Palm Beach, FL
to teach this 4 day intensive training class. He will be covering the
basics of Objective-c, Memory Management, XCode, Interface Builder,
View Controllers, Multi Touch and more. This is an excellent
opportunity for beginning to intermediate developers looking to get
into iPhone application development!

Limited seating available so you will receive great individual
attention. Hot Breakfast, Hot lunch, snacks and drinks will be served
all day. Attendees must bring their own Apple Laptops as no computers
will be provided.

More info @ http://wpbiphoneworkshop.com, email
info@wpbiphoneworkshop.com or @Keyvisuals on Twitter

This is a great opportunity for those of you down Florida way! I wouldn’t miss it! If nothing else, it’ll prep you for 360|iDev San Jose! Speaking of which, attendees to the iPhone Workshop will be given a special 20% discount code for 360|iDev San Jose! over $100 savings off the current registration price!

360|iDev has been compared to larger events as a better value for your money, and a better collection of developers in a setting where you can actually meet people and form bonds, and businesses in person! Don’t miss the best iPhone developer conference in the world! Register now!

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As always Sunday will be a busy day. Included in your registration you can pick from any of these awesome hands on options. If you’ve already registered, just send us an email and we’ll update your registration.

• 9am – 5pm : Kendall Gelner – Advanced Debugging
• 9am – 12pm : Joe Keeley – Intro to Quartz 2D
• 1pm – 5pm : Jeff LaMarche – Open GL ES for the absolute beginner
• 9am – 5pm : Appcelerator Hands-On with Titanium, and Hack Lab in the afternoon.
• And quite likely one more, that we haven’t confirmed, but will be awesome (trust me)

As you can see, lots to keep you busy on Sunday, so plan on arriving in time to hit these up. I mean, Sunday basically turns 360|iDev into a 4 day conference, for a crazy low price.

Register now! there’s still a few of the cheaper “early” tickets left, but not many!

We’ve raved on this blog about the speakers already, so I’ll wrap that up with, EVERY SINGLE ONE WAS AWESOME! That’s really all there is to say. Special thanks to David Whatley, not only did he agree to speak at the last minute, but also stepped up to moderate a frakkin’ awesome lunch time panel on “The App Store” that inspired us to make sure panels are a bigger priority in future schedules.

We had a really great time, Tom and I both agree, the 4 days of actual conference make up for the 5 months of looking for sponsors, selling tickets, dealing with hotels, etc. It’s so amazing to be with such an incredible brain trust, exchanging ideas, talking opening about troubles and successes in iPhone development.

So much cool stuff happened too, that the mind wobbles, whether it’s every attendee getting a Mobile Sketchbook, courtesy of Apress and Dean Kaplan, or Aurora Feint Releasing Open Feint 2.1.

Our official sponsor, Apress provided 30 some odd books for our raffle, and Ebags (Local Denver Company!) provided 5 backpacks as well. The raffle is our way of encouraging attendees to participate in session surveys, and it works. We had a ton of submissions and since each submission is an entry in the raffle, those who submitted for each session they attended had awesome odds, and it showed.

We also got to experience what will now be a full fledged feature of the conference. The Game Jam. Mad props to Noel for throwing it together. I admit I was little unsure whether 1 night was enough to roll out a game, even a rough one. Turns out it’s enough time to turn out several.

We’ve got 4 great classes lined up up, they’re all included in the registration price, and they’re all awesome!

Our Hands-on courses range from iPhone development 101, to an all day workshop with Saurik, the man behind the Cydia Store and celebrity in the Jailbreaking world, and everything in between.

Kendall, will be leading a half day session 8:30-12:30 on Debugging your apps, titled “Advanced debugging, peering into the great unknown” If you’re new to debugging or want to see what you don’t know, this session will rock you socks!

In the same room, after lunch we’re going to have a half day hand-on session with Appcelerator’s platform for building mobile applications, there’s options, and Appcelerator is a really cool one! They’ve got some great stuff to share, if you’re interesting in seeing what your iPhone app dev options are, check this session out!

Jay (Saurik) Freeman will be doing an all day workshop titled, “Extending Existing Applications (Techniques in Code Injection)” And don’t worry, this doesn’t require jailbreaking, most of the session is stuff you can do on a jailed device. Saurik is an iPhone mad scientist of the highest order! The Cydia store is to jailbreakers what the app store is the rest of us, it’s a wealth of incredibly cool, vetted, and often signed applications that simply make the iPhone experience that much better.

Jonathan Lehr of About Objects will be in the last Sunday session room doing a full day, iPhone Development 101. Whether you’re completely new to iPhone development or already know a thing or two, this class will fully prepare you for the next three days of 360|iDev. The outline for the class is here, take a look. It’s going to be an intense day, but a must for anyone that wants to ensure they’re ready for Monday thru Wednesday.

If when you registered the last four questions on the registration form, weren’t about training, just email us and we can update the record. You’re not locked into the class you express interest in, we just like to know how many people to plan for. So if you didn’t express an interest, but do want to join us on Sunday, let us know.

Time’s running out, missing 360|iDev could be the thing you regret most about 2009 :) hundred of iPhone developers, 40+ speakers/sessions, free hands-on training. iphone development celebrities, the works, we’ve got it, don’t miss it! Register now!