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Los Angeles Palm Pre Dev Camp Schedule!
I’ve unashamedly lifted this agenda from the great Pre Dev Camp organizer Lisa Brewster. I had a lot of the same things planned, she just wrote it up in a much more succinct fashion. I have just added in a few of the things specific to our meeting:
The What:
9:45 am – Doors open
10:15 am – Welcome session
10:30 am – SDK and IDE installation check
10:45 to 12:30 pm – Intro to Pre development hands-on and an overview of the Mojo technologies (Javascript, HTML5, CSS3 etc)
12:30 to 1:30 pm – Lunch (everyone chips in for pizza delivery or something)
1:30 to 2:30pm – Wrap up Intro to Palm Pre development and open Q&A session
2:30 to 2:45 pm – Break
2:45 to 3:45 pm – Announcements, demo your app
3:45 to 4:45 pm (flexible) – Prizes raffle, open discussion
4:45 pm – Closing remarks
5:00 to 6:00 pm – Cleanup
6:00 pm – After party at a local restaurant/pub TBD (Open to suggestions)
The Where:
The Where Meet/Mix/Mogul Building
1519 Griffith Park Blvd.
Los Angeles, CA 90026
The How:
By attending this free event of couse 
The schedule is pretty flexible, so, if a particular session has a lot of interest, we may spend more time in that area (such as the question & answer section). During the Intro to Palm Pre Development section, I will try and cover some main features like dynamically loading data, how MVC works in Mojo, file organization, some development gotchas, and some Javascript topics like closures and the ever-elusive “this” keyword.
If anyone wants anything included that’s not covered, don’t hesitate to speak up and we’ll try to see if it would fit into the program. I want this to be as useful to the people who come, so don’t take the above schedule as set in stone. I want to incorporate any good ideas and will revise the schedule accordingly.
4. August 2009 at 14:01
I registered but have basically no experience developing for mobile applications. Most of my work is done using Java and Spring/Hibernate frameworks. I’ve done iPhone examples from a book, but I basically have no mobile application experience. Will this be good for me? What do you mean by demoing our apps?
4. August 2009 at 19:49
This dev camp will definitely be of benefit to you if you want to get up to speed with Palm Pre. It is so new that not many people have a lot of experience with it (including me). Luckily it’s built on existing standards like Javascript, HTML5, CSS3 etc., so I’m able to convey a lot of what I’ve learned working with web technologies to how it works with the Pre. We will be starting from scratch, so all you really need is some enthusiasm and a laptop
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Some people either had a lot of time on their hands the past couple of weeks or they had gotten early access to the Palm Mojo SDK and already have an app to demo. I don’t expect for people to have a lot of demos to show off, but, just in case someone does and they want to show it off, we’re allowing some time in the schedule for it.
Hope to see you there!
Charles