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 – Worth every penny and more
You see events that cost over $1000, and think (at least I do) “what will I be getting out of this conference? Will it be worth $1000? Will I be wasting my money?” I especially have those thoughts as someone who doesn’t have a company expense account to draw upon. But even in my days as a cube monkey I felt weird when I’d return from a conference and 1. have to make up what I learned to report back to my boss, and 2. submit expense reports, etc for thousands of dollars of company money.
What about when a conference has an early bird price that takes $550 off the price? I mean the savings in the early bird price is more than the actual cost to attend 360|iDev.
Why do events, with similar formats as 360|iDev cost so much? They’re “enterprise” meaning nothing but they want to milk attendees (who are typically on the company’s dime) for as much as possible.
These events are obviously not aimed at indie developers. Ever wonder if you get 2-3x the value? They’re not 2-3 times the length, or the number of sessions, or anything else that would be a good metric, so what’s the difference?
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 – Who attends 360idev?
360|iDev, since it’s beginning has attracted an awesome mix of people. 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 [...]
360iDev – Be a Star, Show some love, Win prizes!
We’ve done this before, and we’re currently doing it for 360|Flex as well. Now it’s time to see how creative and funny the iPhone community is!
Take a look at that post. The gist is that we asked people to make short videos about what they thought of 360|Flex, and Flex in general.
So here’s your chance to be a star :)
PayPal X Innovate 2009 is next week!
Sadly Tom and I won’t be at Innovate 2009. Not for lack of interest either. With Tom consulting now, and me being swamped with Conference work, well, our travel budget has temporarily shrunk. Why should you go? PayPal is opening up its platform to developers. For any developer who has needed a flexible, global payments solution, this is a very big deal. It will simply life for many developers who have struggled with integrating payments. As well, it opens up the doors for finally making money from doing what you are passionate about, something we both encourage.
I can’t even tell you how many times as a developer, AND a consumer I’ve wished for better integration with payment solutions. Not to mention, now that micro-payments are becoming the norm, it just makes sense to make collecting money easier for everyone involved.
Check out the event details, They’ve sold out, but if you’re local, they’ve got limited onsite registration space, don’t miss out!
The PayPal team has a great speaker lineup, including Tim O’Reilly as one of the keynotes. Attending will be some of the most innovative developers in the world of mobile, consumer electronics and financial services. Early adopters will demonstrate how they’re already building businesses on the PayPal platform.
All conference attendees will receive exclusive access to not-yet-released PayPal APIs. You’ll also get the chance to work directly with PayPal engineers and other developers during hands-on labs and code-and-build sessions and interact with PayPal’s leadership team.
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 – 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.
360iDev – help a college get some Macs
Speaker Serban Porumbescu will be teaching an iPhone Developer course at UC Davis, starting just before 360|iDev (Yeah two weeks). Problem is the school is doing budget cuts and well, there’s no macs. Kinda hard to develop for the iPhone without Macs right? There’s a Mac lab of course, but that’s hardly the same, and [...]
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