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I have been getting this thought in my mind for quite sometime now and I think I really seldom blog now, so I really thinking of going to blog all these thoughts out.

As you can see from my title, I’m actually thinking of gathering up fellow iPhone developers, of course I’m not that ambitious, who am I to gather iPhone developers from all over the world? I mean at least those interested and especially those from Singapore, and perhaps being more ambitious, including Malaysia too. Well, but let us start talking just about those from Singapore and also those who wish to join in too.

I’m not sure how many of you actually google iPhone developers or tried searching for a Facebook group, and maybe you would end up with some Singapore iPhone User Groups like this SG iPhone Group, and I managed to find an Official iPhone Developers – Singapore too. Both on Facebook. If you trying to search for other user groups, forums, or community, undoubtedly you would end up with thousands if not millions of them.

What I noticed is they normally don’t have much activity and seldom meet up, not even online meet up. I am actually trying to gather those, look, I’m not organizing, I’m just trying to call for those sharing the same interest, which is those iPhone Developers, to join together, to discuss, to share, and to work on some really great and fun, or perhaps interesting apps to put up on App Store. Isn’t that sound good?

But I’m still thinking whether I should start out with a forum? a Facebook group? An iPhone Developer blog? Or anything else that just might click with some iPhone developers who care to join in and have fun together. I mean, why not? It could be building some very fun or very useful apps FOC, or maybe for a minimal of 0.99 cents?

To be frank, I’m still trying to find time pick up iPhone development, and I’m really interested to see more people around me, to join in, and sort of creating a community here, to create a market, as well as a need here. We can’t be waiting for people to employ? We should be creating the market itself and to get someone to employ us, to make it a lucrative market for everyone to join in, share the fun, get some rewards and cash, and perhaps landed in some really decent job with some really cool company. Who knows? Maybe someone from here might go out and setup a company really cool and comfortable for iPhone Developers?

I can see a lot of individual, hobbyist, or perhaps small groups of developers working on apps, and the rest working as a team in some companies. Those big guy will still make some big money, but those smaller groups of developers do make pretty decent income too. I really see the opportunities there to get together, brainstorm ideas, sharing, and helping each others, it’s already pretty matured to develop apps for iPhone, with the joining of iPad, the market for developers are really huge and I think everyone is eyeing on that, why those in Singapore and neighboring countries can’t do something great like our fellow developers from overseas like Europe continents, and US?

We can be as creative and innovative as them, just spent time, put in efforts, and perhaps joint efforts if you are working as a team, to make some great apps that’s really popular or selling enough?

Just some thoughts here. But well, maybe US99 of iPhone Developer Program could some time be an issue there. it’s about SGD150 a year. But if you’re making money or try out for fun, I think the investment of SGD150 still quite worth it.

News about kids and some great developers from Singapore had already motivated us enough to get started, but we’re still somehow lost and not-so-organize. We should get ourselves organized and get things going. I believe sooner or later, we will see iPhone developers really forming up a community by itself and running, which would be great.

Head FIrst iPhone Development might be an interesting book to get started with, if you don’t want to jump here and there to pick up the development skill set you need. Otherwise, iPhone Developer Centre would be a great place for you to pick up by jumping from tutorials to tutorials.

Let me know how you think, if you can really hear me out there! Give me some comments and feedbacks

Nite nite my fellow geeks!

This year, I would not be able to make myself present for The Actionscript Conference Singapore 2009. I will surely miss out a lot of great stuff and experiences this time as I did enjoy myself pretty much last year, and everything is just too great and too enjoyable for anyone to be regretted for not attending, and in fact, i heard from the organizer, Shinchi (Shunjie) that there are a lot of people who are too late to secure themselves tickets as it only has limited seats. It was held at Singapore National Library as a whole day event.

To reward attendees and those who were not able to attend, this year, they offer 500 seats for all of you who missed out the TAC ‘08!

If you’re a student, register yourself here for special rate – http://tac.sg/index.php/student-registration/
If you’re working adults, developers, and etc, please register here – http://tac.sg/index.php/registration/ (The earlier you book, the higher chance you’ll get the ticket at a cheaper rate!)

It’s a 2-day event, so you have will access to the conference within these two days!

There’ll also be a lucky draw that you could not miss out, what’s more, meals and drink, and opportunities to socialize around with talented developers as well as other attendees in this special conference held once a year!

The Actionscript Conference 2009

Wait no more! Take action now! Action speaker louder than words!

For more information on speakers – http://tac.sg/index.php/speakers/
For Schedule/Agenda – http://tac.sg/index.php/schedule/
For full information, please visit TAC Official Home – http://www.tac.sg/

Enjoy!

Yes, you didn’t read it wrong here. It’s free due to the current recession that hit the market badly and a lot of developers are retrenched (probably).

I definitely welcome this approach from Adobe which offer developers a nice tool to pick up the Flex, one of the best RIA language that you should pick up. If you’re currently unemployed or retrenched, you could easily head over to https://freeriatools.adobe.com to get you free Flex Builder 3!

There’s no proof needed and its purely out of honesty, that after you check the checkbox to confirm that you’re unemployed at the moment and you will follow those license agreements, etc etc, and that’s it!

It’s a bit late for me to tell you this piece of great news now, but it’s still available! And I’ve actually shared this on Facebook as well. So if you’re keen to embark on a new journey for RIA (Rich Internet Application) and wish to get this nice tool, and you’re really not working for any company and would not re-distribute this Flex Builder 3 to anyone else, plus… you won’t be using it to develop any commercial product, then you are safe to apply for the license code for Flex Builder 3 Professional!

So what are you still waiting for? Get started and be a Flex developer today!

This is where you select which version you want to apply for:

Flex Builder Version Selection

And this is the license agreement you have to agree before you proceed:

License Agreement

And fill up this form, and you’re done! I can’t show you what happen next as I’m not eligible to apply for it and hence I didn’t fill up the form. So, grab it if you’re eligible for a copy!

Form

Enjoy!