In yet another step toward increased software capabilities on the iPhone, Apple this past week opened the iPhone Dev Center, a comprehensive guide for programmers and developers to everything iPhone. And we mean everything.

While it’s not the full SDK that’s coming in February, the site describes itself as “your single source of information for designing, coding, and optimizing web applications for iPhone and iPod touch,” and it should be a great place to prepare for that Great February Day. The site features web development guides, tech talk videos, sample code, and a pretty darned comprehensive iPhone reference library.

Programmers who work from this resource should not only find an easier time of it all, but their work should also move smoothly from the current Web 2.0 incarnation into native versions when the time comes (should people want to make that leap). For educational users and developers, the Dev Center should make a great resource not only for their own efforts, but also for students in programming classes, interface design classes, and web classes.

So don’t just sit there… Get coding! We need some educational iPhone apps prontissimo!