Pathfinder's Mike Laurence wins Hack-a-thon for iPhone app

This year’s Day of Mobile had a number of interesting tracks, including the ever popular hack-a-thon. In the hack-a-thon, developers worked alone or in teams to build applications that targeted any one of the mobile platforms (iPhone, Blackberry, Android, Palm, Windows Phone) and presented their applications to the attendees to win prizes. Our own Mike Laurence, who won the in in the open source category for developing an iPhone application for the Lighthouse issue tracking service. In three hours. How? By using our recently released Core Resource Framework, a local/remote resource management framework that accelerates the creation of API clients, our soon to be released DynamicCell project, and integrating with the Lighthouse API. Pretty sweet. I talked to Mike about it afterwards, and here’s what he had to say: “Three hours is a pretty short time to develop an application, but this was a good chance to test out the Core Resource framework. I’ve been working on the framework itself for the last five months or so; for the hackathon I decided to see if I could actually make a working app in 3 hours. I ended up creating a Lighthouse account (bug tracking website) for the project, and because Lighthouse has a nice API, that’s what I used as my source. I did get an app up and running in 3 hours, which was pretty exciting. It even looked decent, due to the other open source project I announced (DynamicCell.”) The Core Resources framework is available now, and look for an announcement on the DynamicCell project in the next week or so. We’re building a fair number of iPhone and iPad applications now, and it’s great so have someone like Mike on the team and contributing back to the community.