Yesterday, Justin, Alex and I made the trek down to Bluffdale to attend the Utah iPhone Development Group Meeting. Alex has been coding an app for their USTAR project and I’ve been poking around a bit preparing to write another app. It was a great meeting, by my estimation, a good model for a user group meeting:

• Good venue (thanks seo.com!)
• Pizza (thanks XMission!)
• Group members demo’d iPhone apps (Jason Izatt’s MatchTunes & Alan Carroll’s FamilyLink)
• Presentation and group discussion on the iPad release (Cary Snowden from SquareCompass)
• Demo and coding of Titanium Accelerator (Zach Holmquist)
• Group members invited to share job opportunities, services they offer, or other items of interest
• Networking

About 50 people attended. There was good group discussion. We met Jason Izatt (iPhone development and training company – did milebug), Christian Harrison (designer), FamilySearch employee. OpenFeint (social functionality integration for iPhone apps) was an interesting technology mentioned.