For aspiring iPhone developers there is an easy way to start get started on your dream application and that is to use an application called PhoneGap. The development tool can do more than develop for the iPhone though, it also allows you to easily run your application on Blackberries and Android based phones with the ability to still use their core features.
It's not just their application which impresses me, but their own expression that there needs to be a cross platform development language between all mobile devices.
An express goal of the PhoneGap project is for the project to not exist. We believe in the web and devices should too. The web is moving off the desktop and into the pockets of people all over the world. Phones are the new window to the internet and, currently, they are second class. PhoneGap aims to move your device to a nice first class window. With a foot rest. Maybe a pillow.
As is common with development tools and frameworks these days they do have a Wiki page where you can go to learn all about using this tool. I've not got around to using it myself yet, but from what I hear from people who have it's a fantasic tool that has fast tracked development for their own iPhone applications, making it both easier than the normal Xcode method, and quicker to adapt for other devices. I'm currently developing my own iPhone application called Linnaeus (I'm not going to say what it's for just yet) and when I started the work on it I did consider PhoneGap however I decided for me that learning Cocoa would be the better option as it'd enable me to code for Macs as well. If this isn't something you want to do then learning how to use PhoneGap will make the job an awful lot easier if you already know HTML and JavaScript.
