360iDev – From Game Jam to Appstore
The Game Jam, is a great time. It’s also an awesome place to create a game that will someday be up on the appstore. Case in point Star Fighter X2 By our pal Dan at Manic Gaming. This game started out life in the Game Jam, as a prototype. Now it’s in the app store! [...]
360iDev – So… 360|Mac?
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.
360iDev – In Pictures
I posted about what you do and don’t get, and we’ve done more posts than I can count on the overall vibe, and the parties etc. So I wanted to take a minute to just post some pictures of the past 360|iDev events. I grabbed these off of flickr. The technical content you get at 360|iDev is beyond compare, truly, feel free to ask anyone who’s attended, but that’s just part of the story. The rest is the community of iPhone developers geeking out, sharing stories, code, forming companies, finding work, etc.
360iDev – Volunteer to help out and get in free
We realize that the economy still a little suck-tastic. As you may know we try to keep our events as cost effective as possible, 40 sessions, Sunday hands on. Hotel block pricing to help lower the cost of staying near the event, etc.
Sometimes it’s not enough, we get that. Back in September we experimented with having volunteers. We’ve had temps at past events (360|Flex San Jose ’07 and Seattle) and while that works ok, we tried to reduce the need, because that helped keep our costs low.
BUT
We’ve realized, time and again that we still need manpower at certain points, and in fact we’re planning to increase our need (More on that later).
Registration is a bottleneck, whether it’s just Tom and I, or my wife Nicole, or anyone else who pities us in our time of greatest need.
SO…
360iDev – USB Drive materials
we’ve collected a few more presos, as always, it’s not all of them. :) Some speakers just never give ‘em up. If there’s something you want that’s not in the archive, harass the speaker :) we encourage it.
This archive is the entire thumbdrive, it’s 160mb. From now on what we’ll do is only provide the files that are new or changed since the conference started, but this time we didn’t plan on that, so you have to DL the entire package. Sorry about that.
Hope to see you in San Jose!! The Call for papers is going to open soon, and registration is open for those early birds that want to grab the lowest price possible!
360idev – it’s a wrap
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.
360iDev – There’s a calendar for that
We’re hoping the App ChiaOne wrote will get approved, Speaker Howard Fore is also working on a kick ass webapp, BUT baring both of those…
Subscribe to this gCal, to have the latest info on speaker/session time slots, etc.
360iDev – DUB group for connecting onsite
We had a great conversation with Chris from DUB the other day (I’ve been on the iPhone beta for a few days, and using the app for a couple of weeks) The idea isn’t super new, it’s a business card, sans business card. What’s novel (at least to me) is that you can create groups [...]
360|iDev to have 2 (yup, 2!) “Top 3 Paid App” developers at the show
Let’s be honest, you’re into iPhone development for one reason and one reason alone: to break into the Top 3 Paid Apps list. Sure, to follow your heart and make the world a better place is up there too, but you want to make money while doing all that.
That’s why we’re proud to announce that we have, not 1, but 2 indies that have cracked the highly coveted “Top 3″ chart.
360iDev – Sunday Hands-on Training, Your Options
In case you missed it, or we hadn’t added them when you registered, we wanted to make sure you were well aware of your training options for our Pre-Conference training Hands-on.
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.
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