preDevCamp - Chicago

It’s Not too Late

danboy — Sat, 08 Aug 2009 04:56:20 +0000

Even if you just stumbled across predevcamp today and haven’t rsvp’d, you can still show up.

We will be there all day so just swing by.

-Max

UPDATE: Time change to 11:00

danboy — Sat, 08 Aug 2009 02:17:16 +0000

The event will now offically start at 11:00. If you haven’t been able to get the sdk installed come by earlier, so we can get you set up.

My plan is to leave for noble tree at 9:30. that should put me there by 10:20. feel free to come early

-Max

Agenda — stuff we are going to do as of now

danboy — Sat, 08 Aug 2009 01:13:30 +0000

For those of you that have emailed with what you want to do I took those things into a account when making this…

Getting Started
- The basics
  - SDK
  - virtual box
  - java
- IDE (development environment)
  - Eclipse
  - Komodo
- How to install an app
Online resources
- http://developer.palm.com/
- http://predevcamp.org/live/
- http://precentral.net
  - 7zip
- http://webos.templarian.com/komodo/
- http://Webos-internals.org
- Irc
  - #predevcamp
  - #webos
  - #webos-internals
Making an app
- Vocabulary
  - Scene
  - Stage
  - Developer mode
- Application structure
  - Index
  - App
    - View
    - Assistant
  - Images
  - appsinfo.json
  - sources.json
- Hello world
  - Get hello world running
  - Add widgets
- Using services
  - Gps
  - Accelometer
Brainstorm apps
- Let’s split into groups and make them
Present the apps we make

Chat with others from pDC chicago

danboy — Sat, 08 Aug 2009 00:20:21 +0000

visit this link: http://webchat.freenode.net/?channels=pDC-chicago

I will be on there all tonight, so you can talk to me

-Max

Final Details

danboy — Sat, 08 Aug 2009 00:09:54 +0000

Where: Top floor of Noble Tree — 2444 N Clark St , Lincoln Park – nobletreecoffee.com

When: 10am-6 pm August 8 (tomorrow!)

What: sharing and learning and brainstorming about development on the pre

Who: whoever shows up. at this point we have 8 confirmed guests…. (EMAIL ME IF YOU HAVENT ALREADY!!!!!)

Additional notes:

If anyone could volunetter a projector, that would be great
For food we could just pool together some cash and get pizza. We could also thank noble tree and buy something there.
time is flexible it can go shorter or longer if we want
Things to bring: acoording to preDevCamp

“1. A Laptop running one of the 3 supported operating systems in at least a virtual machine if not as the main OS (32 bit windows -xp or vista, Mac OSX, Linux)

2. A thumb drive or a cd with the SDK to share with your neighbor if they forget it. Get it at http://developer.palm.com

3. Your coolest geek shirt. Don’t have one? You still have time to order one fromthink geek

4. An Idea of what you want to build or help build.

5. Your palm pre – you have one right? If not you will have several chances to win one. Ideally in developer mode.

6. Graphic Design software if you’re a designer – Adobe Fireworks works best.Get the trial here.

7. An IDE – Eclipse works best and palm has special plugins for it. http://developer.palm.com/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=1639

8. Paper or a notebook for sketching ideas and notes. – Portable whiteboards are cool too.

9. Hacker / devhouse / excitement to learn / can do spirit – without this you will have no fun, and at the end of the day I hope that is what you have.

10. Have a great camp! “

I will post again later with what the agenda for the day is later.

check back here before you go to sleep tonight and leave tomorrow morning to make sure you are up to date.

Venue Set!

danboy — Thu, 06 Aug 2009 20:08:25 +0000

Alright, i have talked with the owner and our venue is now set. Noble Tree, check below for details

This saturday, august 8th. The time is still being worked on. check back here for more details….

Noble Tree – 2444 N Clark St , Lincoln Park – nobletreecoffee.com

Next Order of Business: Planning

danboy — Thu, 06 Aug 2009 01:03:03 +0000

Now that we not only have one, but two possible venues, let’s talk what we want to do there. I have no idea what the skill level of the people attending is. For me, when I regiestered a month ago I had never even made a program, and I had no idea how to program. Luckily, programming for the Pre is quite easy and with determination I was able to quickly go from 0 to 60. That being said I expect to see a variety of skill level AND skills.

Some possible activites :

Getting the SDK set up – emulator, eclipse, komodo w/ webos toolbox

Hello World App – just the basics
Make an App using a Mojo Service – I have already made test apps using gps and accelometer
Make a game – I am currently developing a BreakOut clone and I plan to submit it to pDC app contest
Comment below/Email me with Ideas!

So, I want EVERYONE who is planning to come to report back (either via email or comment) with what you what to see happen. Even if you don’t care what goes down and just are along for the ride, tell us that.

-Max

Location, Location, Location….

danboy — Thu, 06 Aug 2009 00:49:28 +0000

So many of you have email me with venue possibilites I have basically narrowed to do to TWO options.

1. Noble Tree – 2444 N Clark St , Lincoln Park – nobletreecoffee.com

“Super, Noble Tree is all yours nobletreecoffee.com just let me know what i can do to make it smooth”

and

“i have a 3 floor house from 1890 or so with a big private patio, you can have it. cool, just let me know.”

2. Mercury Cafe – 1505 W Chicago Ave – www.chimercurycafe.com

“We have about 4000 sq ft and tons of seating.”

and

“well our weekends are pretty busy. so i can say that we don’t have 15-30 outlets avaialable in one spot. you would probably take up a spot toward the back of the cafe.”

Right now I am leaning towards noble tree, if you have any thing to say for/against either location email me (kmax12 at gmail.com) or leave a comment below

Let’s Not Give Up on pDC Chicago

danboy — Wed, 05 Aug 2009 12:52:09 +0000

Hello Everybody,

This is Max. I have taken over for Dan. I really wanna see a preDevCamp happen in Chicago. Right now the biggest limitiation is finding a Venue. I am only 16 and getting people to commit a venue to me isnt easy… So, therefore, it is up to the people of chicago, who want to make this happen, to make it happen. With that being said, I can handle presentations on using mojo and webos and th sdk. I have developed many application already for webos (many of which or on precentral’s hombrew section) I can bring my mojo knowledge to the event, but no experience in other forms of web development. If you have input, comment below. And PLEASE LET’S NOT GIVE UP.

As of now, If we don’t find a venue we might be stuck at Mcdonalds. We need a better idea than this, but this is what I got. One idea might be to contact your church or synoguge, that means Call your pastor / rabbi and see if there’s a function room available ASAP

-Max

kma...@gmail.com

**edit **

I want to remind you that pDC is THIS Saturday, the 8th. Additionally, since many of you probably signed up months ago email me to confirm you still have interest. I plan for it to be an all day event 10-5 or so, but walking in and out should be fine…

Pre Devcamp chicago

danboy — Mon, 03 Aug 2009 17:44:55 +0000

All, unfortunately I no longer have the time or venue to hold predevcamp in chicago next week.

Situations have left me unavailable, but I’m happy and willing to turn this blog etc over to another capable event organizer.

Send me an email and I can get you the login info.

I apologize for the inconvenience this has caused.

/Dan