The Mac developer community is one of the best communities around. Unfortunately most of the major conferences for Mac developers are in the US. This means that on top of the conference ticket and accommodation, those of us in Europe have to also afford a transatlantic flight (as well as get over the jet lag). Enter MacDev 2009.

MacDev is being organised by Steve Scott and Tim Isted from the Mac Developer Network and is a Mac developer conference based in the UK being held on the 16th-17th of April. It has a brilliant line up, including Fraser Spiers, Bill Dudney, Matt Gemmell, Mike Lee and many more, covering areas as diverse as UI design, CoreAnimation, F-Script, CoreData, Performance and Application Security.

On top of this there will be a live recording of the Mac Developer Roundtable podcast (which is a great podcast which I recommend all developers should listen to) as well as a conference dinner. All this starts at £399 (+ VAT) for the 2 day conference and includes your meals and accommodation. Don't forget, you're getting, lunch and dinner the Thursday and breakfast and lunch the Friday as well as overnight accommodation. With all this included the price is a bargain, but is only this cheap until the end of January, after which it goes up to £499 (+ VAT).

And if the conference alone isn't enough, there is also a set of workshops on the Wednesday and include UI design with Mike Lee, Core Data with Marcus Zarra and iPhone Development with Bill Dudney. These guys literally wrote the books on these subjects. These workshops cost just £185 (+VAT) for the workshop, lunch, dinner and Wednesday night accommodation.

I strongly urge any and all Mac devs in Europe to sign up for this. It will truly be a great event and provide a brilliant opportunity for Mac devs on this side of the pond to get together in big numbers. And if that isn't a good enough reason to go, I'll be there! So go book now and get your early booking discount.

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