360|iDev Conference San Jose 2010

The dates for the 2010 360|iDev Conference in San Jose have been set for April 11-14 at the eBay Conference Center in San Jose, the same location as last year.


I really enjoyed last year's conference. Tom and John do a great job organizing things (and seem to like me despite my opinion on Flash), and it's one of the best groups of attendees you could imagine. I was bummed to have to skip out on the 360|iDev Denver last month due to being behind on my writing obligations.

Registration for the early-bird pricing is already open. Call for speakers will go out next week.

In App Purchase Can Now Be Used for Free App

Yep, just got notified by Apple. Free apps. In-app purchase. Say good-bye to "Lite" apps.

The Little Things

I love when Apple's engineers quietly slip little things into the developer tools to make my life better. I commandeered my daughter's iPod Touch to do some peer to peer testing. Her iPod doesn't have my development provisioning profile on it, so when I went to run the app on it, I got this:



I have no idea when they added this, but I know it didn't always give me the option to install and run. It's a little thing, but it saved me from having to go find the right provisioning profile and install it on her iPod.

I'm often quick to note when something doesn't work right or as well as we'd like. I thought it was only fair to take a second to say kudos to Apple for quietly making my life just a little bit easier.