http://predevcamp.org Just another Predevcamp.org weblog Tue, 22 Sep 2009 22:10:36 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en Ok, it finally time for the other shoe to drop. Your humble preDevCamp organizers have reviewed all the applications submitted, reached a consensus, and are ready to announce the winners of the preDevCamp application contest. The winning applications are: Category Application Communications gDial Pro Games PreJeweled Multimedia PrePod Productivity Quick Contacts Reference Scientific RPN Calculator You may notice that one of the original ... http://predevcamp.org/2009/09/22/predevcamp-contest-winners/ You've been patient with us and we're grateful for that. You'll need to be a little more patient; the judging of the preDevCamp Homebrew apps is taking a little longer than anticipated, but we're hoping to be able to announce the winners within the next 7 days. We'll keep you posted! http://predevcamp.org/2009/08/28/update-on-predevcamp-contest/ What a great day we had! Apps were built, Pres were rooted, Pizza was eaten... preDevCamp was a big event, but we want to keep things rolling. Many of the local events have spawned local Pre Coder Groups and we see many events coming down the line. The three of us are looking ... http://predevcamp.org/2009/08/21/wanted-global-volunteers/ So I want to talk more about the developer challenge we announced on August 8th.  The whole goal of preDevCamp is to get people writing apps and learning from each other and get people excited about the possibilities the pre can offer.  So with precentral's help, we've created a competition; ... http://predevcamp.org/2009/08/11/predevcamp-app-contest/ I had intended to announce the winners on Saturday, but there was just so much awesomeness going on in San Diego that I didn't get around to it. But now that your humble organizers are getting caught back up, we've picked six lucky winners from the pool of 1161 ... http://predevcamp.org/2009/08/10/announcing-the-winners-of-last-weeks-twitter-contest/ Everyone at Palm is really excited to see what we'll come up with today, especially Palm CTO Mitch Allen (he wrote the webOS book many of you just got). He was kind enough to help us kick-start our day by sending this video. [HTML8] Notable points: 1. We rock 2. "Tens ... http://predevcamp.org/2009/08/08/predevcamp-welcome-by-palm-cto-mitch-allen/ Alice is kicking ass and taking names over in Baltimore, or at least taking down these links for you to learn more about getting started with webOS. This'll be a great place to start in the morning! The first chapter of “Palm webOS” from O’Reilly (but remember you'll likely ... http://predevcamp.org/2009/08/07/getting-started-with-webos/ Alice Carback has some great ideas in Baltimore for how non-developers can...nay, are NEEDED to help at preDevCamp: * Make an Omnigraffle or Visio stencil * Test other people’s applications * Help with planning and wire framing * ... http://predevcamp.org/2009/08/07/project-ideas-for-non-developers/ Wow! You guys never quit! We just got a rash of registration requests for new cities. These organizers have a lot of work ahead of them, so if you're local to them and interested in having a preDevCamp near you, get in touch with them and help them out: St. Louis Louisville Indianapolis Cincinnati Minneapolis Humacao http://predevcamp.org/2009/08/05/fresh-wave-of-predevcamp-cities/ Now that we're getting down to the wire, we're discovering that a number of cities don't have an active organizer.  Which is totally our fault, and be assured that we want to punish ourselves appropriately. But we still want everyone to attend an event, so we're coming out of time out ... http://predevcamp.org/2009/08/04/adopt-a-camp/