::Austin iPhone DevCamp 2 thoughts:: [/tech/mac] (13:55)

I've finally recovered from the long weekend of iPhone hacking at the Austin satellite of iPhone DevCamp 2. I really wasn't sure what to expect from experience. My impression from some of the pre-event discussions was that there wasn't a lot of people actually doing iPhone development now, a fact which was confirmed when I arrived. That meant that my weekend of sharing iPhone coding tricks and finding answers to some of the problems I've been having didn't materialize, but the weekend was still fun. Sunday was the more entertaining of the two days, as the crowd thinned a bit and more people got down to doing some actual coding. Of course, the real value of these things is meeting people, and for that the event was a huge success.

It remains to be seen whether a regular meeting of iPhone developers will emerge here or if the Austin CocoaCoder.org group will just expand in scope to assimilate the local iPhone coders. I do know that I'm on tap to present my iPhone app at this Thursday's (Aug 7) CocoaCoder meeting, so I'm guessing at least initially we'll explore both roads and see where the local community takes things.