There is currently no ADHOC Conference planned for 2006. For more on last year's ADHOC Conference see: Forgiveness please? We received some sponsorship from Joy of Tech close to the show date and never really did a proper job of recognizing their support on the website. We've fix that now. We're sorry. Jordan Hubbard and Andy Ihnatko are the featured speakers for ADHOC 2005. The hardest working man in the industry, Andy Ihnatko, will also be hosting the Showcase Awards this year with Scott Knaster! There's also an all new theme. We think you'll give it "thumbs up".Notice
Don't Panic!
Free software and hardware, or solid education? Why not both?
Don't let a free copy of REALbasic Pro or even a free USB experimenting board distract you from the huge amount that you can learn at ADHOC. Both the tools and the knowledge are necessary to excel in this fast paced world we live in. After all, turning your ideas into shipping applications used to be a lot of work, but not anymore. On the Macintosh, you have more flexibility than ever before. In addition to making your application work, jobs are demanding rapid prototyping of new features, cross compiling your application to Microsoft Windows, and continually staying ahead of the competition. The list goes on and on.
ADHOC attendees have seen it all. And, we're inviting you to join us! ADHOC thrives on developer interaction. Unlike any other conference, here is where you are encouraged to share your knowledge with others around you. We'll have sessions on how to jump over hurdles in getting code ready for Intel-based Macintosh computers, how to prepare for changes in hardware, how to deal with the press in marketing your software, and how to do plugins that work with Palm and Windows Mobile devices.
REAL Software, sponsors for the 2005 ADHOC, is giving away a free copy of REALbasic Professional to all attendees of the conference. That's a $399 value, free for attendees. Instead of having to maintain different code trees for different platforms, programs written with REALbasic automatically work for Macintosh, Windows and Linux.
We also have pre-conference training this year. Two sessions covering an introduction to AppleScript and how to take advantage of Apple's new Automator. These sessions, like the conference, are appropriate for both power developers and novices looking to get more experience and exposure.
Sponsor Perfectly Scientific will be giving away free bTop-1 intelligent lab system for Mac OS X boards to the first several people who want to use them in their Showcase entry. What is this device? Well, it hooks up to your USB port, and it lets to send and receive analog and digital signals with its Cocoa API. Control your animatronic Darth Vader bank to intimidate your cats. Wire up a home security system. Control your phone system. Water your plants. Conduct experiments. Anything that you can convert to an electrical signal you could hook up to this system, record the results, and change your output based on what happens. Hook up a powerbook or a Mac Mini, and use it to create a robot. The possibilities, they are endless. And, because of the generosity of Perfectly Scientific, the possibilities are also free.
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Last updated 2006-03-29