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A well-known member of the iPhone dev community here in New Zealand has been selected to take part in a reality TV show. Filmed in Italy and the brainchild of Atlanta-based Big Nerd Ranch, ten iPhone developers from all around the world will be put together to create a new social networking app which will then be made available on the App Store for free. The name of the developer can’t be made public until December 5th, but rest assured we will cover the event right here on iPhonewzealand. Read on for more details in the press release.
Press Release:
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
CONTACT:
Jason Russell
Big Nerd Ranch, Inc.
(404) 478-9005
www.bignerdranch.comVenice, Italy – Dec. 6, 2009 – Aaron Hillegass, CEO of Big Nerd Ranch in Atlanta, GA, has been chosen to lead a group of international software developers in a week-long project to create a new social iPhone application beginning December 6th. Funded by Command Guru, an Italian software development company, this application will enable users to stay in contact with friends or connect to new ones all over the world. Once approved by Apple upon completion, this new application will be given away for free in the Apple iTunes store.
Command Guru is bringing together ten of the brightest developers from all over the world to develop this application, which Aaron will lead. Developers from the USA, Italy, Germany, Slovenia, China and New Zealand will come together and work on this project for seven consecutive days. The names of the developers will be disclosed live on the Command Guru site December 5th.
Thought to be the first event of its kind anywhere in the world, the project will be filmed for a reality television show to be broadcast across Europe. It will also be available via live stream on Command Guru’s site, www.commandguru.com. Software developers will also have the opportunity to interact through the public SVN server. Source code will be available for download so developers can suggest improvements throughout the process. Daily Twitter updates will accompany the live video feed.
Big Nerd Ranch, Inc. is the worldwide leader in software training, incorporating intensive classes for Unix, Mac OS X, Android and Blackberry programmers in a retreat setting outside of Atlanta, Ga.
For more information about Big Nerd Ranch, please visit www.bignerdranch.com.
