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Presentation from Andrew Stone (http://stone.com/Twittelator/index.html) to NMTC's Tech Thursday on Local App Development (3/10)
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Home Grown on Silicone Mesa
How Indies can help jump start the NM Tech revolution
Andrew Stone, @twittelator
Andrew Stone, indy
1989: First 3rd Party NeXT App TextArt
1990: First 3rd Party Design/Page layout Create®
1991: First 3rd Party flatfile DataPhile
1997: Create® first app for Rhapsody aka Mac OS X
2002: StoneWorks first indy creative suite for Mac OS X
2008: First free adless Twitter client Twittelator
Cocoa Conspiracy
A homegrown loosely affiliated bunch of iPhone & iPad developers - and wannabe’s welcome
Sometimes, it’s more about social interaction for nerds
Every Thursday 8:30 - 11am RB Winnings 111 Harvard
Cocoa Conspiracy
And here is the story of how it began...
We live in #nm but we can take on work from anywhere
YapTV
What we can help you with
iOS Development and Ruby Development
Hooking you up with work and other projects
Bring your code and questions
All volunteer because it’s about people not money
Ruby Tuesday
Server-side of iOS programming
First and third Tuesday’s, 6-8pm OneUp 301 Central
They can help you select a Belgium Ale
Needed Skills for iOS Apps
User Interface designer
UIKit ObjectiveC programmer
Database programmer for server side
HTML 5/CSS web design skills
Marketing/Schmoozer/Public Relations
Funding: Self or Venture?
Venture Capital Pro’s
Use other people’s money
Enough capital for marketing
Venture Capital Con’s
They own you
You may have to wear a suit and goatee
Funding: Self or Venture?
Self Pro’s
You own it all
You can win big
Self Con’s
You might starve
You still have to market it
Guerrilla Marketing 101
Can’t afford advertising? No Problem!
Using Twitter and Facebook - crowdsource the news!
All you really need is chutzpah (shameless audacity)
Join [email protected]
Resources
Learning UIKit: watch Apple’s videos
Take & modify the sample apps Apple provides
You get stuck: google method name - stackoverflow.com
Tons of free components at github.com
Join in!
Thursday, 9-11am, RB Winnings at 111 Harvard SE
http://stone.com
