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July 5, 2007 10:45 AM PDT

Countdown to Camp iPhone

by Erica Ogg
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In my summer camp days, we did things like swim, play Capture the Flag, and fashion crafts out of Popsicle sticks and Elmer's Glue.

Traditions get turned slightly on their head when an uberhyped phone and grown-up geeks are involved. This weekend, Adobe Systems is hosting a summer camp of a different kind--one for developing iPhone applications. Yes, that's right: a whole three days of nothing but stirring Web developers into an iPhone-related frenzy.

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iPhone Developers Camp rolls into San Francisco this weekend.

(Credit: Apple)

Adobe's swank San Francisco offices are set to host about 250 engineers, designers, iPhone owners and anyone else with a knack for developing Web applications to run on the new Apple gadget. Among the planned activities are creating new Web applications, improving existing applications, turning Dashboard widgets into Web-based widgets, and testing and optimizing sites for the iPhone.

The weekend culminates with a Hack-a-thon.

Camp is free and you don't need an iPhone to attend. Can't make it? You can add iPhoneDevCamp to your Twitter account.

Erica Ogg is a CNET News reporter who covers Apple, HP, Dell, and other PC makers, as well as the consumer electronics industry. She's also one of the hosts of CNET News' Daily Podcast. In her non-work life, she's a history geek, a loyal Dodgers fan, and a mac-and-cheese connoisseur. E-mail Erica.
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Adobe (in)coherence
by Fil0403 July 13, 2007 4:07 AM PDT
Adobe was too lazy to use the dozens of months that Vista was in public Beta to convert their programs to it, but is willing to organize an iPhone camp to create applications for an overpriced toy that doesn't even support Flash or Java. That's what you have to resort to when your over-priced toy doesn't support 3rd-party apps like any Windows Mobile 6 smartphone does, LOL.
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