We had an exciting first day at our 2010 Sencha Conference

We had an exciting first day at our 2010 Sencha Conference (#SenchaCon). The day kicked off with a

keynote from the Sencha team with some special announcements that I’ll recap in this post.

First, we recapped Sencha in 2010. Highlights of the last year we covered included an increase in forum

community members from 80,000 at last year’s conference to over 180,000 this year. And a slew of

product shipments including Ext Designer, Sencha Touch, and significant updates of both Ext JS and Ext

GWT. Next up were some fantastic demos of what Marketo, Widgetbox and Salesforce.com have built with

Ext JS and Sencha Touch.

Then, we demo’d and announced the winners of the Sencha Touch contest. The judging panel selected 10

finalists from the more than 200 entries. The first prize winning app was DailyCrossword, developed by

Cahit Gürgüc, second place went to Mike Hardaker for his TravelMate mobile web app, and the third

prize went to Nick Poulden for his e-Resistible mobile web app. You can read more about the Sencha

Touch contest and winners here.

We also outlined the Sencha roadmap for 2011 including plans for Ext JS 4, Ext GWT 3, Sencha Touch 1.1,

and the official release of Sencha Animator.