iPhoneDevCamp Chicago experience
**Stupid NDA. Can’t say shit.
Hour1: Awesomely small! We’re in a building right next to the Sear Tower! I’ve missed Chicago I guess. Ok. enough of the mooshy stuff.
We have a great breakfast of coffee, bagels and shmeer to feed our growing brains. We’re just settling in now.
Hour2: Dave Dribin on the Development Tools
- Great demo of basic coding using development tools by Dave Dribin. We went over the basic syntax and what tools to use. He developed a basic Apple application using the visual development tool in the kit. The app had a button!
Hour3: Keynote streaming straight from San Francisco.
- Longest freak’n sponsor opening ever… seriously.
-The audio sucks… can’t understand it. Watch all the feeds here.
-We stopped watching. Great!!!
The keynote over all sucked. Maybe someone there is writing a live blog about what the dudes are saying because we can’t hear. I started to browse Digg, that means its awful.
Time for food!
Hour4: Forum. Bitching time.
-Major problems with the NDA
Hour5: Ben Gottlieb (Crosswords, Stand Alond inc.) discussing iPhone development,
Thanks for the t-shirt!
- Sitting next to Chris Foresman of Ars Technica
- Honestly, can’t say anything…
- Nice presentation. Actually took some notes.
Hour6: Scott Corely (Acid Solitaire Collection, Red Mercury LLC) to discuss the App store
- Will prices and quality in iPhone apps change in 10 years?
- Self-claimed “Futurist”
- All speculation… only dreams come true (Walt Disney)
- Now debating the problem with rating and reviewing apps… Oh the problems…
Hour7: Chris Foresman is going to talk about the UI
- Good points. Design is key.
- All praise Twinkle!
Hour8: Brad Larson (Molecules, Sunset Lake Software)talks about OpenGL ES Programming
- Warning: Again thanks to NDA. I probably can’t say anything…
- This dude blew my mind with this graphic wizardry! This is like a book in 45 minutes… my brain hurts but a great job!
Awesome experience for the first day! Meet great people and learned alot, it was like class but fun and interesting. We’ll see about tomorrow!




















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