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Development Track

Tom Hughes-Croucher introduces us to Server-side JavaScript; Jonathan Stark says it’s all about Location, Location, GeoLocation; Brian Fling designs and builds Mobile Apps with Web Standards and Brad Neuberg transforms Web Apps with HTML5.

An introduction to Server-side JavaScript

Exploring the other side of JavaScript

Presenter: Tom Hughes-Croucher

Server-side JavaScript has really started to take off, with a number of great projects providing different pieces of the puzzle. This talk will introduce server-side JavaScript and provide an overview of the existing projects as well as some ideas about where it’s all going in the future.

Tom will look at how the various JavaScript runtimes, such as V8 and Rhino, affect development and provide their own unique features. You’ll also see the standardisation effort of Common.js and why it’s shaping how people write server-side JavaScript.

All the leading SSJS frameworks – Node.js, Narwhal, Jaxer – will be discussed as well as some more quirky uses of JavaScript on the server such as CouchDB and YQL.

HTML5 for Web Application Developers

The interactive future of the web

Presenter: Brad Neuberg

HTML5 brings a wealth of new functionality for web applications, including drag and drop, offline, file access, geolocation, and more. In addition, CSS3 introduces new layout options and animations that can make your web applications more professional and easier to put together. These new standards are transforming how we build web apps; come and learn how to use them in your own applications!

Location, location, geolocation

From 0 to 100 with APIs, services and a map

Presenter: Jonathan Stark

For users, mobile computing is characterized by a high degree of immediacy, personalization, and contextual awareness – made possible in large part by location based services. For developers, building mobile apps is a great opportunity, but a daunting challenge due to unprecedented platform fragmentation.

Follow along as Jonathan builds a cross-platform, location-based mobile app using HTML, CSS, and JavaScript, in conjunction with popular geolocation web services. You will learn how to access a user’s location on various mobile devices, to convert a geocode to a physical address, and to display local points of interest on a map.

Designing and Building Mobile Apps with Web Standards

Tools and techniques for web developers

Presenter: Brian Fling

With so much discussion about mobile applications these days, we tend to forget that the Web is the only cross platform application framework that works across all mobile devices. Mobile expert Brian Fling and author of O’Reilly’s Mobile Design and Development, will explain how to design and build a Hybrid App, using web technologies like HTML, CSS & Javascript to create a deployable cross platform mobile application.

This talk will consist of three parts: when to build a Hybrid App over a native application, how and when to leverage web app frameworks like jQTouch & MooTouch and finally how to deploy your Hybrid App using tools like PhoneGap & Rhomobile and others.

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