Category Archives: Trip Reports

Video of my YUIConf talk about open web app development

Posted on February 27, 2014 by wfwalker

The YUIConf folks have just posted their recording of a talk I gave there last year. I had planned to talk generally about the Firefox Marketplace, how it differs from other app stores, and how those differences create an overall … Continue reading →

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DevCon5 — on learning from games, Monty Sharma, Mass Unity

Posted on November 28, 2012 by wfwalker

Monty Sharma gave a great talk this morning at DevCon5 about the current trends in games and what the rest of us can learn from them. He centers on three big ideas: Free-to-Play. Find a way to let dedicated users … Continue reading →

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jsEverywhere: From Continuous Integration to Continuous Delivery by Morten Nielsen

Posted on October 26, 2012 by wfwalker

Morten‘s presentation is a hilarious, compelling fable of what happens when a .NET shop relying on manual processes becomes a victim of its own success and ends up with an exploding number of software versions in the field. The fable … Continue reading →

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jsEverywhere: End-to-End W3C APIs by Alexandre Morgaut

Posted on October 26, 2012 by wfwalker

Alexandre is giving a great overview of the history of JavaScript, popular API’s, and the role of W3C and other standards bodies. He gives a shoutout to Kevin Dangoor for CommonJS, then proposes the idea that remote CommonJS processes can … Continue reading →

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jsEverywhere: Single Page Applications, Josh Powell

Posted on October 26, 2012 by wfwalker

Josh Powell is giving a great talk about how to make single page web applications with JavaScript. The main focus is on how to break free of the web 1.0 tyranny of doing a page load for every new piece … Continue reading →

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David Kaneda and Josh Clark @ DevCon5 NYC

Posted on July 24, 2012 by wfwalker

This session has David and Josh riffing about designing for mobile. Device context is different from User Context. Just because you know they have a small screen, you don’t know whether they’re focused or distracted, having a short or a … Continue reading →

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Allan De Consta Pinto (Microsoft) @ DevCon5 NYC

Posted on July 24, 2012 by wfwalker

Allen is a technical evangelist, he’s here to talk about building native Windows 8 Apps with HTML. He emphasizes that Windows 8 makes Touch and the Windows Store first-class citizens. Nice detail: you can set up a visual gesture password … Continue reading →

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Caridy Patino @ DevCon5 NYC

Posted on July 24, 2012 by wfwalker

Caridy describes how Yahoo! built Axis on three different platforms using Mojito. He talked a lot about lessons learned while building a complex UX on iOS, Android, and Chrome desktop. Build mobile products atop platforms designed for mobile products, lest … Continue reading →

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Tyler Smith (AppMobi) @ DevCon5 NYC

Posted on July 23, 2012 by wfwalker

Tyler Smith talks about how to make great cross-platform games with HTML5 * Research and choose an HTML5 game engine (see bebraw’s excellent list at github) based on features you need, size, cost, and mobile compatibility. Beware of open source … Continue reading →

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David Kaneda @ DevCon5 NYC

Posted on July 23, 2012 by wfwalker

David Kaneda is talking at DevCon5 NYC talking about cross-device development: * You only get access to four touch events on most devices right now. See Boris Smus’s pointer.js as a nice abstraction layer. Enhance your hit radius for touch … Continue reading →

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