Spilling the Beans
Friday, September 11th, 2009 at 7:07 pm
CCDC is approaching, and I am taking a moment, to provide all participants with some more detailed information.
CCDC will be held at KEA – Lygten, which is a school that, amongst many things, educates multimedia-engineers.
CCDC will pay nothing to Lygten for using their fabulous venue, that is why CCDC is so cheap. The 150 DKK is to cover expenses for cleaning the school afterwards, the schools cleaning company will do the job for 2500,- any money left will be given to a charity, please email me if you have any ideas.
There will be three meals during the whole weekend, saturday “Øredev 2009? is sponsoring brunch and dinner. “Øredev” is a conference for software developers that takes place in november in Malmø.
Sunday “comprendo” will be paying for brunch, comprendo is an advertising agency, and a pioneer of iPhone application development in Denmark, through a network of peers known as “iPP”.
The food will be delivered by the catering company that normally works at the school, MealsOnWeels, and I heard from the schools principle that they make delicious meals.
It is a good idea to bring fruit and refreshments for the rest of the event, the school is located on Nørrebro, that means there is several of pizza joints nearby if hunger should strike you durring your late-night coding.
Friday there will be a bar for the students of the school, we are welcome to mingle with them, the CCDC introduction will start at 20:00 friday.
During the introduction the “theme” will be announced, all applications that wish to enter the competition must reflect the theme. After the introduction the “pitching session” will commence, this is the time you find the project you want to work on, and the team-mates you want to work with, everybody can contribute with ideas, and as soon as your team is established, and registered (through an online google form), you are allowed to start coding.
There will always be someone at the school, though you can leave during the evenings to sleep at home, it is possible to sleep at the school, just remember to bring your camping gear (you will be sleeping indoors, so leave the tents at home).
If you do not want to participate in the competition, and just work on your own project from home, you are more than welcome. We would love to se what you are working on during the “open mic” session saturday night.
All applications must be handed in to the judges at 14:00 sunday deployed on a device, or a simulator, the App presentations will start 14:15, after everyone has been heard, the judges will decide who wins the loot, sponsored by nabz.dk, comprendo, and Joachim Bondo (we are looking for more loot, if your company wants to sponsor the event with physical goods, then let me know).
Information for programmers.
You need the development tools installed (developer.apple.com), and if you want to deploy your code on a device, apply for the iPhone developer program, getting in can take some time, so you better do it sooner or later. One person from the team would need a developer license, but if you want to be sure you can deploy your code on a device, go to developer.apple.com and pay + sign-up.
Most of the lectures assume that you know Objective-C, and at-least understand the basic principles of the language. If you want to get the most out of the event, and the lectures, CCDC recommends you to take a day to dive into the fabulous world of XCode and Objective-C, several resources are listed below.
Remember the lectures will be Saturday, and we already start coding Friday night, so it is essential for participating programmers to have some experience with objective-c before we start.
Information for Designers and Artists.
There is not much you need to prepare, just bring your own computer, though reading the iPhone HIG could be a good thing, it can be found here.
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