You’ll have a chance to learn from some of the best in the business, the scheduled speakers are (listed alphabetically):

* Kevin Avila
* Erik Buck
* Bob Clair
* Joe Conway
* Mike Daley
* Suzanne Ginsburg
* Aaron Hillegass
* Jonathan Rentzsch
* Erica Sadun
* Jeff Sinclair
* August Trometer

Voices That Matter is a two-day event and will offer many sessions covering the latest and most intriguing technology in application development for the iPhone and the iPad. A partial list of topics includes:

* Killer User Interfaces for iPhone OS Devices
* Core Animation
* iPhone OS Game Programming
* Audio and OpenAL
* Core Data for the iPhone OS
* Memory Management
* Xcode

Free Pass Giveaway

As we did for the conference in October of 2009, Voices That Matter and iPhone Developer Tips are giving away one free pass to the event in Seattle, quite an opportunity as the full admission price is $695 for the two-day event.

How the Contest Works

If you are interested to register for the drawing, all you need to do is click the Refer-A-Friend button below and fill in the popup form to refer one or more friends to this blog post. Make sure your email address is correct in the form, as that will be your ticket in the drawing. It’s that simple! I respect your privacy, your email will be used only for registration in the event.

The Details

The deadline to register for the drawing is March 11th, 2010. The winner will be announced on March 12th, 2010. The drawing is for one free admission pass only, you will have to pay any additional travel or related expenses.

Good luck!

You can find any number of good forums/groups to ask iPhone developer questions. I created the [iPhone developer:tips] Google Group as there are more tips and tricks than I can keep up with, which is where this group comes in. Here’s your chance to share tips and tricks with other iPhone developers!

* Have something cool you discovered in Xcode?
* Got a snippet of code you found to be quite handy?
* Debugging tips and tricks?

I look forward to reading your tips!

John

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Thought this would make for an interesting experiment to see if/how Friend Connect might be a useful addition to the blog. The Popular Posts gadget seems an interesting approach for helping to narrow in on interesting and popular content.

If you are up for it, register for Google Friend Connect and recommend a few posts…

Voices That Matter has kindly offered to provide a free pass to the event for one lucky reader of the iPhone Developer Tips blog. The full admission price is $695 for the two-day event, so this is quite an opportunity to hobnob with iPhone, Mac, Cocoa and Objective-C experts and authors.

How it Works
If you are interested to register for the drawing, all you need to do is click the Refer-A-Friend button below and fill in the popup form to refer one or more friends to this blog post. Make sure your email address is correct in the form, as that will be your ticket in the drawing. It’s that simple!

~~ Contest entries are now closed. ~~

The Details
The deadline to register for the drawing, by referring a friend, is September 10th. The winner will be announced on September 11th.

Good luck!

Voices That Matter are hosting an iPhone Developers Conference in Boston, MA on October 17th and 18th. If you are looking for an opportunity to rub shoulders with iPhone, Cocoa and Mac, authors and experts, don’t miss this event!

They’ve assembled an impressive list of speakers (listed alphabetically):

* Lee Barney
* Erik Buck
* Bill Dudney
* Daniel Grover
* Aaron Hillegass
* Andy Ihnatko
* Daniel Jalkut
* Stephen Kochan
* Bill Licea-Kane
* Erica Sadun
* Fraser Speirs
* August Trometer
* Fraser Speirs
* August Trometer
* Marcus Zarra

At the Voices That Matter iPhone Developers Conference you will:

* Learn what it takes to build killer iPhone apps.
* Rub shoulders with the best-of-the-best iPhone developers.
* Share and learn from first-hand development stories (the good, the bad AND the ugly!)
* Learn what you need to know to earn a virtual black belt in iPhone development.
* Debate the most current topics and the future of iPhone development.
* Learn how to market your iPhone application successfully.

If you interested to learn more about the app, or have an idea for something similar you would like developed, drop me a note. You can also visit 3 Sixty Software, the business end of my iPhone development.

To check it out, visit http://iPhoneDeveloperTips.com or http://iPhoneDevTips.com using Safari on your iPhone. The plugin offers finding content by category, searching for keywords, RSS feed, among others. The search idea has some potential to offer quick access to content if you are away from an internet connection on your development machine. However, I imagine in this case, you may also have little to no access on your iPhone.

One area that I’ve noticed where the small format of the phone will be a challenge is with the code snippets. I am using WP-Syntax to show highlighted source code, unfortunately, when viewing with WPTouch, code is truncated with no way to zoom out (even in landscape mode, much of the code does not appear in its entirety).

Either way, if you give it a try, please post a comment as I’m curious to hear what you think and if this ever comes in handy.

Although nothing can replace the dynamics of actually attending a class in person, you can download the lectures slides and all sample code demonstrated in the class.

To get a feel for the content and examples, I took some time to read through a few lectures. I will say, the content is very well presented and the examples are quite helpful.

One of the more intriguing lecture slides I ran into this was this one:

Now, how cool is that!

A good friend, Craig Setera, who I’ve worked with previously at mFoundry was kind enough to forward a link to the Standford information. Craig has been involved with Java and mobile development for many years, and is the guy behind EclipseMe. Thanks for the heads up on this Craig.

A professional software developer for over 20 years, Steve runs California based mobile development company, Uztek Games, which he founded in 2002.

Over the course of his professional career, Steve has tackled almost every facet of video game development, including hardcore programming, video game design, video game production and studio operations management. Steve has served in executive management roles at leading software development houses and has made credited contributions on many AAA titles. At Uztek, Steve’s primary focus is on design and development of mobile applications. Recent recent work includes full-service original game development for publishers EA Mobile and I-Play, as well as hardcore engineering consulting on Mojax, the leading mobile AJAX platform.

A huge upside of having both Steve and Rodney contribute is that the blog now has three unique perspectives on development: Rodney is Java guy through and through, Steve has been writing C++ for the long haul and I’ve been working with J2ME since the early days. This is fantastic, as we’ll be able to cover even more ground, for even more developers…

Welcome Steve!