360iDev – Post WWDC Recovery

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.

360iDev – Know any (non iPhone?)Mobile Developers? RIA Devs?

InsideRIA, will leverage the already awesome community and RIA focus of the insideRIA blog to provide a real world connecting point for Silverlight, JavaFX, Flex, etc developers.

Both events will be at our famous stomping ground, Ebay Town Hall, birthplace of 360|Flex and 360|iDev. Each event will be a single day (of course also a pre-conference training day) multi track event, aimed at introducing folks to the various options in both spaces.

You know Tom and I, this won’t be some weak sauce marketing focused event showing off “Roadmaps, future features, etc” that’s for the birds, this will be hands on, deep dive nitty gritty details from developers actually building in these platforms.