Speakers

Jens Alfke (@mooseyard)

Sync & swim with CouchDB for Mac & iOS

Introverted, intuitive, thinking, perceiving. I live to make things: most often software, sometimes designs or mixes or stories or photos. (I wish I could make music.)

Chris Clark (@clarko)

Personification of applications

A quick exploration of cognitive science, evolutionary psychology, anthropomorphism, VH1-style pickup artistry, and design, all in the name of making better products. Products people love. Or at least products people want a one night stand with.

Chris Clark is an interaction designer and man about town. Originally from Australia and more recently of Tapulous and Black Pixel, Chris works at Square in foggy San Francisco. His moderately-offensive Twitter account resides at http://twitter.com/Clarko. Follow on Twitter.

Eloy Durán (@alloy)

Who’s your mac daddy now, runtime?!

This presentation will introduce MacRuby, which is an implementation of Ruby (a high-level dynamic language optimized for programmer happiness) on top of Apple technologies, and demonstrate that it can be used to create, or assist in creating, real apps.

Eloy Durán is a developer at Fingertips in the Netherlands, where he works on web, iOS, and Mac OS X applications. After a few jobs that had nothing to do with programming, he started learning the fine art of talking to computers in 2006. He has since honed his craft by working on numerous open source projects, including RubyCocoa and MacRuby, and breaking every app he gets his hands on. Currently he’s been keen on applying the automated testing practices learned over the years to Objective-C development. Follow on Twitter

Guy English (@kickingbear)

Moderation: Simplicity, complexity & software design

Guy English works on popular iOS and Macintosh applications and is mysterious about it. Prior to that he worked at Rogue Amoeba on their excellent Mac desktop audio software. And before that he had a ten year career in the video games industry working on everything from 3D engines, scripting bridges, and palette animation in a voxel engine. Follow on Twitter

Audrey Eschright (@spinnerin)

Location: The fun, useful and sometimes creepy things your apps can do

This is a high-level talk on making use of location in your applications. I’ll cover the basics of creating location-based software, fun and interesting ways to make use of geographic data, and how to deal with common privacy concerns. You’ll walk away with an understanding of how location can enhance and support everything from finding your way in the world, to games, to productivity tools and other utilities.

Audrey Eschright is a: Programmer at Elevated Code working with Ruby, Rails, and occasionally iPhone development. Writer of essays, recipes, horror comics, and knitting patterns. Photographer working with digital and film cameras, including Polaroid, Holga, and pinholes. Community organizer of unconferences like WhereCampPDX, and co-founder of Open Source Bridge. Core team member of the infamous Calagator. Agitator for a variety of grassroots local tech. Follow on Twitter

Steve Glinberg (@123colorappdev)

Mind the gap: A Framework for communicating effectively about software

Steve Glinberg is the founder of 123 Apps, a Madison, WI based company specializing in the development of educational and fun iPad and iPhone apps for kids ages 2-10, including top sellers 123 Color, 123 Glow, 123 Sticker, 123 World, and KidCalc Math Fun. Living in Madison, WI with his wife and two daughters (6 and 2 1/2), Steve is passionate about finding simple and effective ways to teach children with technology. Steve has been providing software development consulting and training to clients for 15 years, working in a multitude of roles spanning the full software development lifecycle. Steve also runs an iPhone/iPod touch/iPad recycling program aimed at bringing donated high technology mobile devices into classrooms constrained by ever tightening budgets. Follow on Twitter

TradeMark Gunderson (@TheECC)

Copyright violation for the nation

TradeMark G. (a.k.a. Mark Gunderson) is a musician and artist, perhaps best known as founder of the band The Evolution Control Committee in 1986. He is also a culture jammer, equipment designer, software designer, and organizer. The Evolution Control Committee is best known for its copyright-challenging stance, using found sounds to create new musical works at the risk of copyright violation. This made The ECC the target of a cease & desist order from CBS for sampling newscaster Dan Rather, but also earned The ECC credit for creating the “Mash-Up” genre of music (also called Bastard Pop). TradeMark can take credit for those and all other ECC projects, including the development and construction of the Thimbletron, a live sampling performance instrument.

Andy Ihnatko (@ihnatko)

Love in the time of choleric iPad clones

Andy has been a paid, published tech pundit since he was a teenager. These days, you can read him every week in The Chicago Sun-Times, once a month in Macworld, and also about once a month on the CBS Early show. He does a whole mess of regular podcasts, and his tech books tend to sell well enough to inspire his publishers to send him the occasional celebratory basket of artisan cheeses. Which is pretty swell because he likes artisan cheeses. Follow on Twitter

Bob Kressin (@macisv)

Technical and business lessons learned brining mobile hardware to market

Bob Kressin is President and CEO of KS Technologies, a company specializing in mobile software application and hardware accessory design. Bob holds a Bachelors and Masters of Science Degree, both in Electrical Engineering, and two hardware patents. After building his first crystal radio when he was about six years old, his passion for many years has been building mobile and wireless devices. His primary experience includes oscilloscope and logic analyzer hardware design for 12 years at Agilent Technologies and running KST for 8 years. Follow on Twitter

Brad Larson (@bradlarson)

Enhancing molecules using OpenGL ES 2.0

Good developers think about the code they need to write today. Great developers think about the code they’ll be writing in two years. And then there is Brad Larson, who is inclined to think about what’s beyond the horizon. I always love to hear what’s on Brad’s mind, because those topics will be on everyone’s mind in three to five years. I’m grateful that Brad was willing to step up this year and take a presentation slot at the last minute.

Justin Miller (@incanus77)

“Lifestyle busiess” is not a dirty word (well, two)

Justin spent half a decade dreaming up the perfect solo business while working for others, then another half executing on that plan. Now, six months after leaving it to work for someone else, he finds more similarities than differences. He’ll talk about what he learned along the way and how you can apply this to “work”, no matter how you define that word.

Justin recently left Cocoa, web, and server freelancing for a company called Development Seed to focus on custom mapping technology on iOS and the web. Prior to that, he worked on iOS apps you’ve definitely used and technology for the UN, DoD, World Trade Center Memorial Foundation, and two US presidents, to name a few. Follow on Twitter

Mike Rohde (@rohdesign)

Sketching: Visual thinking power tool

Sketching is a powerful visual thinking tool, for non-artists and artists alike. Mike Rohde shares the story of designing Pear Note for Mac and iPad, revealing the key role sketches played in the design process. He’ll also share practical ways sketching can become a powerful tool in any indie developer’s toolkit.

Mike Rohde is a designer and sketchnote artist based in Milwaukee, WI. He is an experience designer focused on UI and visual design at Gomoll Research + Design, and runs Rohdesign Studios, a small design, sketchnote and illustration firm serving clients worldwide. Mike is the illustrator of REWORK, the best-selling business book from 37signals. Follow on Twitter

Rob Rhyne (@capttaco)

How to quit your job, love your work, be good at it

Rob Rhyne is a full-time designer and developer, part-time writer and scoundrel. He runs MartianCraft, a boutique mobile development shop he founded that makes software for discerning clients. In his spare time he dabbles in writing his own apps, such as Briefs, an innovative design toolkit for creating interactive wireframes on iOS devices. Follow on Twitter