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iPad / iPhone Seminar
You're adept at Java. You've got a solid grasp of that ecosystem. But you keep hearing about iPhone this, iPad that. It worries you just a bit that you haven't yet spent the time to explore this new frontier. Cure that with a nearly Java-free intense four hour boot camp on the iPad. During this session, you'll use your UberConf-supplied device to get started coding on the XCode platform, learning the Objective-C language, testing, and deploying your apps.
No previous iPad ecosystem knowledge is assumed. Matthew McCullough and Ben Ellingson will take you from the ground up in this unique coding environment. With their hands on teaching style and one-on-one assistance, you'll explore what it takes to build and deploy an application for the iPhone and iPad devices. We'll start with a simple application that you'll code from line 1 to line 200, all the while testing it in the iPad simulator. Along the way, you'll also discover the Developer signup process and digital certificate setup required to push beta applications to the device. Finally, we will integrate an iPad app with data from a JSON web service.
Workshop part II will focus on debugging. First, we will revisit deployment to iPad / iPhone devices, cover common application debugging techniques, writing unit tests, and debugging tools. We will also include time for you to ask questions and work through any issues you are having.
You'll will walk away with a complete understanding of the iPad ecosystem, including the coding, testing, deployment and web mashup processes. You'll be equipped to participate and even initiate your team's next iPad enabled application design and coding efforts.
Prerequisites
In order to make the workshop valuable to all attendees, we ask that you only register for the workshop if you can meet the following prerequisites.
- Apple Mac Notebook w/ OS X Snow Leopard
The iPhone 3.2 SDK is not available for Windows or older versions of OS X - Note: if you dont have a mac you can rent one here or here.
- An Apple iPhone Developer Account at http://developer.apple.com
* required to download the iPhone SDK and push to your device (cost $100). - Install the iPhone 3.2 SDK. This MUST BE INSTALLED prior to the workshop. Due to the SDKs large size (2.5GB) there will not be time to download and install the SDK during the workshop. In addition, the Apple Terms of Use prohibit us from distributing the SDK at the workshop.
Seminar Registration is Closed
We are sorry, but iPad / iPhone seminar registration has reached capacity.
Über Conf iPad / iPhone App
If you already have an iPad, be sure to check out the Über Conf iPad App. This app will help you browse sessions and plan your Über Conf itinerary. Workshop participants will receive the source code to this app. This is a great opportunity to go beyond the basics and see how a real-world app is put together.
Get the Über Conf iPad / iPhone app »About Matthew McCullough
Matthew McCullough is an energetic 12 year veteran of enterprise software development, open source education, and co-founder of Ambient Ideas, LLC, a Denver consultancy. Matthew currently is a member of the JCP, reviewer for technology publishers including O'Reilly, author of the DZone Maven RefCard, and President of the Denver Open Source Users Group. His experience includes successful J2EE, SOA, and Web Service implementations for real estate, financial management, and telecommunications firms, and several published open source libraries.
Matthew jumps at opportunities to evangelize and educate teams on the benefits of open source. His current interests are Cloud Computing, Maven, iPhone, Distributed Version Control, and OSS Tools.
Matthew resides in Denver with his beautiful wife and baby daughter, who all are active in nearly every outdoor activity Colorado offers.
About Ben Ellingson
Ben Ellingson is a software engineer, web developer, and consultant. He is the creator of nofluffjuststuff.com, uberconf.com, and related NFJS websites. He has 13 years of development experience, is an active member of the Boulder Java Users Group and the No Fluff Just Stuff community. He spent his early career at EDS and IBM; then developed a content management system for nCube, a pioneer in the Video On Demand space. He is a multi-talented developer; proficient coding on the server-side, front-end, and mobile applications. His latest creation is the iPad app for Über Conf. Ben lives in Boulder, Colorado. He is an avid runner, who has nearly completed his goal to run the world's 5 major marathons. You can keep up with Ben's work at benellingson.blogspot.com.
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