iPhone Developer's Meetup: Network Effects

Great iPhone apps don't just run on the iPhone -- there's usually something significant happening on a server somewhere that's holding it all together or adding extra spice. For our January meetup, I'm organizing a group of presentations that will show some different ways to build these back end services, ranging from fully-custom to off-the-shelf APIs that you can use in your app.

As case studies, Ramin Firoozye, Roger Nolan, and I will be presenting three apps that we've developed (separately) that have custom backends, then Brian Mulloy will present apigee, a web service for monitoring and supporting APIs that we develop and/or use. After that we'll see presentations on the new Bump API and Casmul, a backend service for game developers.

And by popular demand, two-minute demos will be back. I'll reserve the last 15 minutes of the meetup for them, so let's plan for around 5 demo slots. Anyone is welcome to present with preference for app demos from new presenters and apps that fit the theme of the evening.

Two-minute demos:

1. Andre Gueziec, Beat the Traffic(r)
2. Bo McFarland, Bleam (https://www.bleam.me)