I’m currently sitting in the Denver international airport after a great Titanium lab session at 360iDev - horrendous network connectivity aside, it was a good event and we had several people stop in over the 4 hour session. We went over the basics of Titanium Mobile and talked about the benefits of Titanium even for grizzled iPhone development veterans.

My favorite story of the event is a student who stopped in - a college age developer named Connor. Connor works with his brother and father in a family-owned web development consultancy called Freshtaps. How great is that? I hear the family that codes together stays together. He and his family are primarily front-end HTML/JavaScript and UI designers, but were looking to get into iPhone development because they are getting opportunities from clients to build apps for the platform.

With Titanium, Connor was able to start hacking an iPhone app right away using the skill set he already has. For Freshtaps, that means that they can pursue development opportunities themselves that they would have otherwise needed to contract out. Their market gets much bigger when they can build cross-platform mobile applications for iPhone and Android (and soon more platforms), which means more opportunities to grow their business.

Seldom do people in today’s diverse economy get to see the direct benefit of their product to other people, so I feel very fortunate to have met Connor. My hope is that Freshtaps can use Titanium to make the most out of their family business. Good luck guys!