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Awesome iPhone Dev Class

On Thursday of this past week, Steve Hayman, the CE of Apple Mobility, came to campus to do an iPhone development class for our campus web developers group.  If you've been following my posts lately, you know that I have been looking forward to this for a while, and that I have gotten totally into iPhone development lately.

Steve had a great class.  We learned a good bit about the capabilities of the iPhone, he demoed a few apps, and we even built a flashlight app.  But the best part of the class was not during the class, but after it.

My co-workers (Jen and Nick) and I went to lunch after and the possibilities for development dominated our lunchtime conversation.  While this is totally NOT unusual, the excitement was unprecedented.  We probably had 4 or 5 implementable ideas by the time we left lunch, so it was really cool.

In the next few weeks I am going to get some folks on campus together to start a community-developed NC State app for the iPhone.  It should be an awesome experience, and really give value to the University.

And as a side note, AmberCube (the company that Garrison and I own) have taken the plunge and dropped the $99/year on an iPhone development license.  Expect to see some great things coming from us in the future