So… The 13th is still a go for Chicago, Expect a couple good walkthroughs/presentations and some fun hands on stuff. Email me if anyone is interested in presenting. I’d love to see sombody do a JavaScript TDD talk.

I still plan on doing an event in August as well, but Im looking forward to getting the Chicago community rolling now.

We’ll start around 11 at obtiva’s offices and run through the afternoon.

Obtiva is located at

566 West Adams
Suite 400
Chicago, IL 60661

Send me an email or leave a comment and I can answer any questions you might have.

Thanks! And I can’t wait to see you all June 13th.

/Dan

So… A new preDevCamp date has been anounced which leaves me wondering what all you chicago attendees think of this? I’m going to feel some things out over the weekend, but in the mean time post a comment below and let me know your thoughts.

Just wanted to drop you a line and let you know that PredevCamp is still on for Chicago.

We’ve secured our location thanks to Obtiva and I’ve been in talks with palm to try and grab the SDK before the event.

The short time between launch and event is a factor, but I’m going to do my best to have some decent presentation material ready.

Anyone interested in talking presenting details etc. comment below and I’ll get in touch.

Thanks, and I can’t wait till the 13th.

Download the first chapter now at http://developer.palm.com/!

I’m gonna give it a quick read this afternoon, post your thoughts in the comments.

Also note the (disabled) webinar button.

Just curious what smartphones we’re all using and what platforms we’ve done development on.

I’m currently using a G1, and I’ve done some work with both the android and iphone sdk.

What’s everyone else using?

I just wanted to introduce myself and start getting us all psyched up for the event.

I’m a Chicago based Web Designer/Developer and really psyched to start developing for the pre. I’ve been playing with gnome’s seed (http://live.gnome.org/Seed) in order to get used to deskot (or palmtop) js development.

Can’t wait to start building for the pre!

The awesome folks over at obtiva (http://www.obtiva.com) have been generous enough to provide us their space for predevcamp.

Obtiva
566 West Adams
Suite 400
Chicago, IL 60661

Check out their site and use them for all your development/training needs.

I’ll be updating this space as more details trickle in.

I just released a post on whurley.com entitled “Phone Warz: Revenge Of The Palm?” discussing how ever since I helped pull together iPhoneDevCamp with Raven Zachary and Chris Messina back in 06, Ive been hawking the other manufacturers looking for a legit challenge to the iPhones throne; secretly to have another event.

Anyway, I was discussing this whole scenario with @Giovanni and @DanCrumb this weekend, and we had quite an amusing round of what-ifs. We had so much fun bumpin our gums, we decided to up the ante. Today @Giovanni, @DanCrumb and I (@whurley) are launching preDevCamp 2009.

The event will be held in around 60 cities around the world exactly one week after the U.S. release of the Palm Pre. Since the phone is Linux+WebKit, development should be easy for us to share the love. Tell your friends. Invite your neighbors. Weve got satellite events lined up in over 30 cities around the world. If you want to enlist, visit the website and tell us your city. If theres not a leader in that city, then you just got promoted.