Speakers
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Jordan Lev 3.6
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joshuas 3.6
Description:
A technology case study of combining an online Web service API with a native iPhone application. Specifically for experienced Web developers, we'll provide an introduction to Objective C and the iPhone platform, and cover technical details from the Web services API design to URL loading and parsing on the iPhone.
Links: Website

Jordan and Josh had a lot to say about developing for the iPhone, both good and bad, and I appreciated that. Josh spoke very well, keeping interest and had great flow to his content. Jordan was a little quieter and stumbled a bit, but did a good job regardless.
As far as content goes, I felt that I came away with a bit of knowledge I hadn't had before the panel, though somewhat low level. Obviously these two couldn't teach us Objective-C in an hour though. The walkthrough for the psuedo code could've been better, and I had expected it to be interesting, but had issues keeping up and couldn't see the code on the screen from the other side of the room.
Overall it was a good overview of things to think about when writing a native iPhone app, and I was happy that I attended since I'm interested in getting into this sort of thing.