Voices That Matter: iPhone Developers Conference

Responses to the session: Refining your App's User Interface

When it comes to your application, its user interface is your first impression. If users can't get past the first screen, they are likely to abandon or delete your app. Once they've had one negative experience it will be challenging to convince them ... [session page]

Liz Marley: The content overlapped a fair bit with the other UI presentation. She had some solid ideas, but Suzanne also seemed a bit weak in background research -- she seemed quite flustered to hear that something she recommended against was actually recommende... [read more]

Thu, May 6 at 4:12PM (1 comment)

Responses to the session: Designing a Killer UI for iPhone OS Devices

With 200,000 apps in the App Store, simply writing code isn't enough to make you successful. In order to rise to the top, you need to have a killer UI. In this session, you'll learn techniques and tricks to polish your app so it's "App Store ready." ... [session page]

Liz Marley: The material was presented well, but it was fairly introductory. New developers may have found this session useful, but if I had known I wouldn't learn anything from it, I would have attended the other session instead. Perhaps the description could h... [read more]

Thu, May 6 at 4:03PM (1 comment)

Responses to the session: Keynote: The Lifecycle of an iPhone Project

Writing, shipping, and maintaining an iPhone application is a process that many will start this year. This talk is an introduction to how an iPhone application goes from an idea to a shipping reality, and how that process can be made more pleasant an... [session page]

Jay Anderson: A nice balance of ice-breaker humor and real content.

Jamie Martin: this was awesome, and honestly the best part of the whole conference. :-)

Liz Marley: Solid content, presented with humor, clarity, and confidence. I found the 'okay, who's doing what role?' question at the beginning of each skit a little annoying. Maybe they should have decided that beforehand.

Thu, May 6 at 3:54PM (3 comments)

Responses to the session: Core Animation: Bringing the Magic

It used to be hard to create interfaces that were engaging and user friendly. With the introduction of Core Animation, first on the iPhone and then on Mac OS X, developing great looking and intuitive interfaces has become attainable even for the casu... [session page]

Jay Anderson: Don't try to write code in front of an audience at the end of the day.

Cris Ewing: really, there is a reason people tell you not to do live demos. This was one of the worst presentations I've seen at any conference.

Darren Sillett: Truly awful presentation. I was expecting much more from this talk. He barely got through the basics and even those he was patchy and confused about.

Wed, May 5 at 9:23AM (3 comments)

Responses to the session: Core Location and Map Kit: Bringing Your Own Maps

The iPhone SDK provides a nearly-complete toolkit for navigation and travel applications. Its Core Location framework uses a variety of technologies to pinpoint your location, direction, and orientation, while Map Kit easily serves up map images to s... [session page]

Evan Robinson: Fantastic survey of the subject and the requirements of map data licensing. If there are open source places to get map data it would have been nice to include prominent pointers to them.

Tue, May 4 at 10:57AM (1 comment)

Responses to the session: InApp Purchase: Best/Worst Thing Ever

In-App Purchase offers a great way for your users to enhance your application after the sale by purchasing additional material: new game levels, in-game goods, and subscriptions to new content. For the user, it's just a few taps, and an easy payment ... [session page]

Cris Ewing: This was both a solid presentation and very useful. The information was highly relevant to my interests and was well delivered. A great eye-opener.

Evan Robinson: Interesting survey of the opportunities and headaches associated with in app purchase. Worth attending, although a total package solving the headaches would have been a very nice announcement at the end of the talk :-)

Tue, May 4 at 10:56AM (2 comments)

Responses to the session: Performance Tuning on the iPhone

An application’s real-time performance is one of the MOST important issues that all iPhone developers face today. Understanding the unique constraints that these embedded devices have are essential to optimization success. Developing software to effi... [session page]

Cris Ewing: Whoa! Reminded me of the AP Chemistry class I took in high school. Way more than I ever wanted to know. It was clear he knew what he was talking about, though :/

Evan Robinson: Excellent session. I might have liked to see a wider spectrum of optimization techniques and some indication of where they might be used, as well as demonstrations of how Shark or Instruments could be used to detect where and how to optimize.

Tue, May 4 at 10:55AM (2 comments)

Responses to the session: Creating a Physics Game with Cocos2D and Box2D in an Hour

This presentation will cover how to get started with Cocos2D and Box2D frameworks and how to apply it in building an iPhone game. Developing games for the iPhone can be a lot of fun, but learning where to start is difficult for new Objective-C develo... [session page]

Robert Brennan: This sounds like a great workshop!

Matt Martel: Rod is great, you will love this session.

Evan Robinson: The concept is good, but in reality watching someone code is rather like watching paint dry. IMO a better arrangement would have been a detailed code walkthrough of the final working game.

Tue, May 4 at 10:53AM (3 comments)

Updated Sessions

Core Animation: Bringing the Magic, When the Whole World is Watching: Delivering An Olympic App Across Multiple Devices , Learning iPhone OS Games Programming, Audio for Games

Tue, May 4

Michael Schneider posted Where can we find slides from the talks at the show?

Is there a central place to find them or are they spread out on the speakers' various blogs?

Barbara Gavin: You can access the slides and code from each speakers session description page. Look on the right side of the page. or, for all the sessions where I have received material: http://iphone2010.crowdvine.com/talk/presentations

Mon, May 3 at 10:38AM (1 comment)

Responses to the session: Reachability and all the REST

Networks don’t always work; they fail often. Networks that rely on radios fail even more often. How do we cope? In my REST applications, I cope using a combination of open source technologies and Cocoa APIs. This talk will survey the technical choice... [session page]

Cris Ewing: Spent a bit too much time early on in descriptions. More emphasis on usage might have been helpful.

Mon, May 3 at 9:42AM (1 comment)

Responses to the session: Memory Management on the iPhone

Proper memory management is important for any program, but it is critical for iPhone apps, because iPhones don't have a lot of physical memory and the iPhone OS does not have a swap system. When the OS begins to run out of memory, it sends your app a... [session page]

Cris Ewing: quite valuable. Especially the bits and pieces about image management. Since my apps will likely be very image-heavy, I expect that bit to be of great help.

Mon, May 3 at 9:40AM (1 comment)

Responses to the session: Cocoa Design Patterns

Cocoa frameworks are elegantly consistent with recurring patterns throughout their design. Understanding the patterns enables the most effective use of the frameworks and serves as a guide for writing your own applications. This session supplies insi... [session page]

Cris Ewing: I found the presentation highly informative.

Mon, May 3 at 9:39AM (1 comment)

Responses to the session: iPhone Sci-Fi: What's Possible and How with Augmented Reality

The Summer of 2009 saw the explosion of interest around a new technology called "augmented reality." In its most essential form, augmented reality aims to abolish the barrier between what we perceive as digital and what we perceive as real. Until we ... [session page]

Cris Ewing: It's always fun to be in the room with a guy who makes you feel like you're standing in concrete. I look forward to seeing more of what comes from Ben.

Mon, May 3 at 9:37AM (1 comment)

Rob posted Dinner on Friday night?

I'm flying over from the UK and I don't have any plans for Friday evening. Anyone fancy dinner somewhere around the conference with a chance to talk iphone?

Tom Bernard: Hi Rob, Did you find any takers? It is 8:00 Friday and I am about to seek food. I would welcome your company and iPhone discussion. ++ Tom

Fri, Apr 23 at 8:15PM (1 comment)

Barbara Gavin posted Coming in from out of town

Here are pictures of the Bell Harbor Conference Center. http://www.flickr.com/photos/bgavin/sets/72157623911414614/

Thu, Apr 22 at 1:24PM (0 comments)

Barbara Gavin posted Hotel Internet

So - if you are staying in the Edgewater, we set it up so you have free wireless. But - the system here at the hotel will make you sign up, asking your name and room number and how many nights of Internet you want. Go ahead and sign up - once the charge from the ISP hits your hotel bill, it will be wiped.

Thu, Apr 22 at 11:50AM (0 comments)

Responses to the session: Pike Brewery

Appular and MailChimp invite you to join them at Pike Pub and Brewing Your first drink and snacks are on them! Look for the drink ticket in your badge holder. Saturday, April 24 at 8:00pm Pike Pub and Brewery http://bit.ly/pike_map 1415 First Ave Sea... [session page]

Dave Howell: Beer.

Barbara Gavin: Beer - it could happen.

Thu, Apr 22 at 11:32AM (2 comments)

Barbara Gavin posted Weekend Weather in Seattle

http://www.weather.com/weather/weekend/98121 Packing a fleece, my sunglasses and an umbrella.

Wed, Apr 21 at 6:50AM (0 comments)

Christopher Allen posted Using CrowdVine Profiles

Admins: At iPadDevCamp last weekend we used CrowdVine's profile feature to add a number of additional profile entries that made finding people and matching interests between people using CrowdVine much more effective. You may want to take a look at iPhoneDevCamp-2010.crowdvine.com to see how we used them. -- Christopher Allen, iPhoneDevCamp co-Founder, Hackathon Host, Matchmaker & Concierge

Barbara Gavin: Thanks for your ideas. I have been very gratified, working with Tony and his team, to extend the functionality of CrowdVine.

Wed, Apr 21 at 6:45AM (1 comment)

Barbara Gavin posted User Testing

Pearson Education, the parent organization of Voices That Matter, is conducting a usability study to evaluate several iPhone e-readers. We are looking for subjects for usability tests that will take place right at the conference. The test sessions will take thirty minutes. They will be recorded; we will ask you to sign a simple one page agreement. As our thank you for taking part in the study, we would like to give you a $25 iTunes gift card. It’... [read more]

Sun, Apr 18 at 10:03AM (0 comments)

Barbara Gavin posted User Testing

Pearson Education, the parent organization of Voices That Matter, is conducting a usability study to evaluate several iPhone e-readers. We are looking for subjects for usability tests that will take place right at the conference. The test sessions will take thirty minutes. They will be recorded and we will ask you to sign a waiver . As our thank you for taking part in the study, we would like to give you a <$X> gift card. It’s easy, it is fun, an... [read more]

Sun, Apr 18 at 10:02AM (0 comments)

Bernadine Kringel posted Job opportunity at Telestream in Northern California!

I am the human resource manager at Telestream, Inc. We are the makers of products such as Flip4mac, Screenflow, and Wirecast, among others. I am recruiting for a senior software developer with skills/experience in Cocoa touch as well as Objective-C. The right person would also have C++. I am hoping to hear back from you if you are interested in working on a team of creative developers that are producing awesome products! For more information, che... [read more]

Thu, Mar 25 at 1:57PM (0 comments)

Barbara Gavin posted Eating your way thru Seattle

A blog post, written by someone in Austin, TX. This is about her experience (as a person interested in food) in Seattle. http://bit.ly/vtm_food

Thu, Mar 25 at 12:59PM (0 comments)

Barbara Gavin posted Pre-Conference Training

The conference sessions are all based on the assumption that you know Xcode and Objective-C. If you need to learn these quickly -- or you would like a brush up -- our friends at Big Nerd Ranch are teaching a special one day course in Seattle, on the day before the conference. http://bit.ly/pre-con

Mon, Mar 15 at 3:02PM (0 comments)

Barbara Gavin posted Restaurant Week

I wonder if there are any passionate foodies out there...coming to the conference in search of more than new skills? Seeking a gastronomic experience, too? When Seattle Restaurant Week kicks off April 18-29, more than 100 participating King County restaurants will offer three-course dinners for $25 Sundays through Thursdays. Some will also add a $15 three-course lunch. On tap are places large (Blueacre Seafood, assuming it opens as scheduled) and... [read more]

Mon, Mar 15 at 2:19PM (0 comments)

Barbara Gavin posted Deadlines (for conference attendees)

Early bird pricing ends on Friday, March 12. Also...if you are coming in from out of town...the conference hotel is the Edgewater. The conference rate is $149 and I don't think you will do better. But book the room sooner rather than later; call and let them know you are with "Voices That Matter". The number is 206-728-7000.

Wed, Mar 10 at 11:23AM (0 comments)

Barbara Gavin posted Twitter

If you would like to follow the conference speakers, try this list: http://twitter.com/#/list/VTM_iphone/speakers-april-10

Wed, Mar 3 at 8:37AM (0 comments)

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