iPhoneDevCamp 3 Recap

Posted by Raven Zachary on 14 August 2009 @ 18:07 PT

Two weeks ago, I (along with Small Society developers Jon Wight and Andrew Pouliot) visited Yahoo! headquarters in Sunnyvale, California, for iPhoneDevCamp 3, the largest iPhone developer conference (other than Apple’s own WWDC). This year, we had close to 600 attendees, the largest event yet. This is our third year. The prior two years were held at Adobe Systems’ San Francisco office. I created iPhoneDevCamp in June 2007 before the release of the first iPhone - when iPhone development equated to web development. We’ve come a long way since then, and with the tremendous success of native apps and the App Store, this year was bound to be a success.

The highlights from this year included keynote presentations by Chi-Hua Chien from Kleiner Perkins (talking about the iFund, of course), Andrew Stone (Twittelator Pro), and Steve Demeter (Trism), a musical performance by BT, dozens of presentations by attendees, and 54 new iPhone apps demoed during the Hackathon.

Thanks to everyone who made the event possible this year. While we aren’t quite ready to start the planning for iPhoneDevCamp 4 in 2010, based on the success this year, I suspect we’ll be repeating the event next summer.