preDevCamp San Francisco was a great success!

First I want to thank everyone who came this weekend to preDevCamp, without you it would not have been the success that it was. Our final count of attendees was around 140 people throughout the day. For the keynote by Jesse Donaldson and the in person welcome by Mitch Allen there was a standing room only crowd at Palm’s headquarters in Sunnyvale.

Thank you also goes out to Aaron Hyde, Pam Deziel, and the rest of the people from Palm that came out and made this event such a success by allowing us to use the Palm cafeteria and multipurpose room for out event. We had representatives from all of our sponsors on hand with the largest array of prizes and swag I have ever given out at an event!

Congratulations to Seni Sangrujee for winning the zanox web services contest with his event finding application that also showed adds from zanox based on what type of event you searched for, well done!

We had demos of about 12 applications that were either developed that day or were worked on with help from the large number of Palm engineers that kindly came into work on their Saturday to help people hack and work with the Palm webOS SDK. Some of the highlights were Word Ace from Self Aware Games, who also gave an awesome presentation on CSS3, Twee from Delicious Morsel and Scientific RPN Calculator by Marco van Hylckama Vlieg.

Andrew Peters from UE Architects, gave a great presentation on UI development and design for webOS and showed how Adobe Fireworks CS4 is the perfect tool for building webOS UI mockups and graphics.

Lunch was provided by Pivotal Labs, Sonic.net and UE Architects in the form of 40 Pizzas from RoundTable. They were consumed with great gusto!

Thank you also to Adobe for the generous donation of 4 Creative Suite 4 Web Premiums and a copy of Photoshop CS4 as well as to Sprint who gave away 2 passes to the 2009 Sprint Developer Conference to be held on October 26-28th in Santa Clara.

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