360iDev – The Community is strong!
I’m biased, obviously. I like competition, but hate johnny come lately type stuff that dilutes the market without providing benefit to the community/customer. I hate seeing an event fail, I hate seeing a business fail, it sucks, 360|Conferences is slowly climbing out of bootstrap and into slight profitability, I know the pain of having no [...]
360idev – Make some noise, make some money!
So I’ve made some site badges, grab ‘em and put up on your site. Blog, twitter homepage, whatever. You can get the 200pix and the 250pix size. But wait, what about the money? Yeah so we’re trying something new. When you add the badge to your site, you can use an eventbrite affiliate link, to [...]
360iDev it’s not what you get, but what you take away
We’ve talked about ‘Who attends 360|iDev’, and I’m sure we’ve covered some of this before too. But I think it bears repeating.
360|iDev, is as much about what you take away, as what you get when you’re there. And NO I don’t mean SWAG.
When you leave 360|iDev on Wednesday you:
Leave with new friends. Friends you’ll stay in touch with online in between conferences, and reconnect with at the next 360|iDev
Leave with new projects. You met a great developer that you want to collaborate with, and a new game is born! (Just ask Keith and Natalia about teaming up with David Whatley on geoSpark)
Leave with new employees/employers. You’re hiring, or looking for work. Odds are good you’ll leave with resumes, or actual new hires/new employers.
Leave inspired. You’ll get home, jazzed about new techniques you learned, new concepts you picked up. New ideas you talked about over beers. With a keynote by David Whatley, a Wednesday General Session by Mike Lee, it’ll be heard to walk out uninspired!
Leave 6 months ahead of the curve. You’ll get home and start working on things that others won’t be thinking about for months. New libraries that haven’t hit the mainstream yet, new ways of writing code, new frameworks, etc. You’ll be ahead of the pack when they finally catch on to what’s going on.
Leave with new apps that just need to be cleaned up and submitted. The Game Jam (Sponsored by Touch Arcade!) is the birthplace of games like Hippo High Dive, Gravity Sling and more. Whether you’re a game developer already or not, attend the game jam. It’s Tuesday night thru Wednesday morning, and you won’t regret it. You’ll leave with more than you came in with Tuesday night, we promise.
As an iDeveloper (You know what I mean.) you have a lot of choices; iPadDevCamp the weekend after, Voices that matter in Seattle, etc. All things being equal, compare what you get from each and see what makes sense for you to attend. If you don’t agree it’s 360|iDev… Let us know. You won’t get as much technical content, community, and fun from any other event, really.
CHeck out the schedule, description of sessions, and of course, the awesome speakers list!
Register now!
360iDev – iPad developers conference
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.
360iDev – Great news, Hotel Room block extended
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!! Register [...]
What you won’t see or get at 360iDev
It occurred to me, that it might be a good idea to make it clear what does/doesn’t happen at 360|iDev for those who might not know.
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!“
360iDev – Get your iPad Dev on!
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.
360iDev – Why you should be staying at the Marriott
If you haven’t heard, we have an official hotel. That’s right, boys and girls. There’s a spot where all the party people are going to staying under one roof. It’s the spot where you can stumble or crawl to your bed after an all-night rager of drinking, coding or perhaps a bit of both. Why [...]
360iDev – The Speakers – Brian Robbins
I was grabbing a bite to eat at Sam’s #3 the other day when I ran into Brian Robbins. I met Brian for the first time at 360|iDev Denver, he was a speaker there, just like he is in San Jose.
Me: Hey Brian! How are you man?
Brian: (Sits across from me) Hey John! Grabbing some lunch? (I point to my Haystack, a totally yummy pile of Chili, cheese, and fritos) I’m good. Getting excited for San Jose, I can’t wait!
(Brian orders ‘Two Dogs WET’)
Me: What do you think people who attend your session will be most surprised by/about?
360iDev – Lots of cool Sunday Hands-On options
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 : Jeff LaMarche – Open GL ES for the absolute beginner
1pm – 5pm : Joe Keeley – Intro to Quartz 2D
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.
