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MacTech Boot Camp coming up on July 27, tickets still available

by Mike Schramm (Jul 12th, 2011)

Neil Ticktin of MacTech magazine sends word that the upcoming annual MacTech Boot Camp in Los Angeles on July 27 is coming together quickly. Both this camp (which we visited last year to meet and greet some of the biggest names in the Mac community) and the one in Chicago on August 31 have ...

360 MacDev Conference registration now open

by Mike Schramm (Jul 12th, 2011)

360|MacDev has opened up registration for its next Mac developer conference in Denver, Colorado. Originally, they had wanted to schedule something this year, but due to conflicts of various kinds, the date has been moved out to next February, in 2012. That's a ways away, but it'll just give you ...

Guy Kawasaki to keynote MacTech Conference 2011

by Victor Agreda, Jr. (Jun 2nd, 2011)

Former chief evangelist for Apple (back in the days when the Macintosh first launched) Guy Kawasaki will keynote MacTech Conference 2011, happening November 2-4 in Los Angeles. We reviewed Guy's latest book, Enchantment earlier this year. I've read several of Guy's books and recommend them all. ...

Official WWDC app available now

by Mike Schramm (Jun 2nd, 2011)

Apple has released an official WWDC app for next week's developer conference, now available for both iPhone and iPad. The app includes a full schedule of events and the ability to make up your own custom schedule, detailed floor maps to see where everything is, and even up-to-date conference ...

Evernote offering developer competition, conference

by Mike Schramm (May 24th, 2011)

Evernote has announced two big events for its developer community coming up later this year. First, the company is holding a competition with over $100,000 in prizes available to win. To enter, all developers need to do is build an app, service, or device that works with the Evernote system by ...

TUAW discount for Voices That Matter: iPhone Developers Conference

by Steven Sande (Feb 28th, 2011)

If there's anything that TUAW tries to do to separate itself from the other Apple blogs, it's making sure that we support the iOS and Mac developer communities through our involvement in conferences. While we're usually at Apple's Worldwide Developer Conference (WWDC) to cover the stories, TUAW ...

Conference Companion app suite poised to transform event experiences

by Michael Rose (Feb 21st, 2011)

If you're attending a professional conference or symposium, you can expect to do a lot of walking around, meeting and greeting, professional networking and intensive learning. Unfortunately, you can also expect to be saddled with a lot of paper: venue maps, agendas, speaker bios, training manuals ...

XMG Studio attacks EA for Christmas app promotion at Mobile Games Forum

by Mike Schramm (Jan 26th, 2011)

While we're in San Francisco at Macworld this week, there's also a Mobile Games Forum going on in London, and one of the discussions over there got a little heated when the talk turned to EA's big Christmas sale on the App Store. Mobile developers have said before that EA's big push down on even ...

Mac developers: Win a free pass to 360|MacDev or save 25%

by Steven Sande (Dec 1st, 2010)

There's just a little over a week until 360|MacDev opens in Denver, Colorado. This new Mac development conference, which will be held December 10-11, 2010 at the Crowne Plaza Downtown hotel, features a number of speakers and sessions covering everything from turning iOS apps into Mac apps to ...

MacTech Boot Camp gives Mac mavens pre-Macworld day of workshops

by Mike Schramm (Nov 22nd, 2010)

Hopefully, if you're headed out to Macworld Expo next year, you've already made some hotel and air travel plans, as reservations in San Francisco are already filling up if not filled up completely. But just in case you're still planning out the trip, make sure to try and include an extra day at the ...

MacTech 2010: Wil Shipley on Noogle Noggles, a new Delicious Library and the Mac App Store

by Mike Schramm (Nov 8th, 2010)

Wil Shipley is probably the premiere Mac developer -- he co-founded The Omni Group, and now runs Delicious Monster, whose Delicious Library app pretty much embodies the best of this platform we love so much. Wil kindly sat down to talk with me at last week's MacTech 2010 conference here in Los ...

Mac-based autonomous rovers at MacTech Conference 2010

by Victor Agreda, Jr. (Nov 3rd, 2010)

We're here at the MacTech conference, and as everyone checked in and got breakfast there was a demonstration of some clever Mac-based rover robots designed and built by a team at the University of Arizona. The brainchildren of Professor Wolfgang Fink, these robots are designed to be autonomous and ...

MacTech conference: a chance to save $200, highlights of what's to come

by Victor Agreda, Jr. (Oct 27th, 2010)

MacTech will be the first opportunity for Mac developers to talk OS X 10.7 Lion and how to best use the coming Mac App Store. If you register before Thursday, October 28, you'll be able to save US$200. Just go here to register, and don't forget to check here for your travel and lodging options (some ...

First Look: A totally Unsocial app

by Steven Sande (Oct 18th, 2010)

Sometimes it seems like the last thing we need is another social networking app, but how about being Unsocial? Unsocial (free) is a new iPhone app described as the unholy spawn of LinkedIn and Foursquare. In other words, it's oriented towards business networking, like LinkedIn, and ...

Mac developers: 360|MacDev conference scheduled for December

by Steven Sande (Sep 18th, 2010)

360|Conferences, the company that hosts the popular 360|iDev iOS development conferences, is now reaching out to the Mac development world. They're launching a new conference, 360|MacDev, and the premiere event will be held December 10th and 11th in Denver, Colorado. 360|Conferences felt that ...