Plug and Play Tech Center event tomorrow night.
This is primarily for our local to Silicon Valley peeps and anyone attending 360|iDev, who gets into town early! ;) Plug and Play Tech Center is hosting a cool iPhone Play: iPad event in Sunnyvale. Details are below! If you’re in the area, you should check it out! Looks like a great time! $15 bucks [...]
360iDev – What to do when you arrive
We’re not GDC, or WWDC. There’s no waiting in a mile long line to get in, there’s not sea of thousands to wade through to get your badge. 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 [...]
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 – Getting around San Jose is easy
If you booked your 360|iDev stay at the Marriott (or anywhere near it really), getting around is easy. We’ve got a shuttle that will run in the morning, and at night, Monday thru Wednesday.
All you gotta do is be downstairs when the shuttle is there and you’re all set, ride in comfort from the Marriott to Ebay Town Hall.
The shuttle schedule is below, make sure to keep it in mind!
April 11th:
Morning 7am – 8am
Evening 7:30pm – 8:30pm
April 12th
Morning 7:30am – 8:30am
Evening 7:30pm – 8:30pm
April 13th
Morning 7:30am – 8:30am
Evening 5:00pm – 6:00pm
Sleep in? No worries. If you miss the shuttle, the VTA station right outside the Marriott will get you to Ebay Town hall in no time at all (well, actually about 20 minutes). It’s about $2 for a 1 way ticket.
And of course there’s plenty of parking at ebay, but it fills up fast so don’t mess around if you’re driving in.
register for 360|iDev now!
360iDev – Last call for volunteers. Help out – Get in for free
We’ve already accepted most of the volunteers we need, but we need about 3 more. This is your last chance, if the price of a ticket is keeping you from attending, trade some time for a free pass. We need help during registration, and with the filming of sessions, not that hard. In exchange you [...]
360iDev come for the sessions stay for the parties
360|iDev is more than just sessions. I mean, the sessions are awesome, 40+ from some of the best and brightest in the iPhone dev community. And don’t get me started on the panels…. (seperate blog post) But when the sessions are over, the parties begin. The evening receptions give everyone a chance to decompress after [...]
360iDev Touch Arcade Game Jam
Have a game idea you’ve been saving for when you have the time? Maybe you need to learn cocos2d first to do the game you want. Maybe you have too many other things going on, but the moment you have a few hours, it’s on.
Well, the Touch Arcade Game Jam, is for you :)
Starting Tuesday night, after the evening reception, we’ll be locking (Not really) anyone who wants to into a room at Ebay to crank out code all night long, 12 straight hours, through the night.
Touch Arcade is sponsoring, and will keep you hydrated, fed, and loaded up on Toblerone and Red bull.
When everyone else comes back to Ebay Town hall for the Wednesday General Session (Mike Lee, ya’ll) the Game jammers will be done, and ready to show off their creations.
Whether you’re a game developer right now or not, the game jam is the best place for you to try it out.
3 days to write an app? p-shaw! In Denver we saw something like 15 games demoed. Some made it to the app store shortly after, some are still being worked on for future (soon) release.
Come learn from experienced game developers first hand, in person.
The Game Jam is open to any 360|iDev attendee. Make sure you have a power cord :)
Register now!
360iDev speaker chat archives
If you haven’t been joining us on the weekly speaker chats, well you should be ashamed :) BUT you’re not out of luck. We record them.
Just click the names below to listen in on the great chats we’ve had leading up to 360|iDev San Jose.
These chats have been incredible! The speakers freely sharing what they’ve learned, and more. It’s great!
Brian Robbins
Collin Donnell
Mike Berg
Nathan Eror
Owen Goss
Rod Strougo
These chats, are simply amazing. You’re not gonna get this level of access to these speakers anywhere else but 360|iDev, unless you kidnap them, which we don’t condone :)
360iDev speaker chat – @nattylux
Join us this wednesday for this week’s 360|iDev speaker chat with Natalia Luckyanova of Imangi studios.
Natalia has a ton of great info and wisdom to share on surviving the app store (the topic of her session at 360|iDev by the way), so you won’t want to miss this chat.
Bookmark this link.
We’ll be chatting Friday the 26th, at 12pm Mountain time!
If you haven’t registered for 360|iDev, there’s still time and space left, but I wouldn’t wait around! 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.
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