6:00 - 7:00: HTML5 Geolocation, by Scott Ryan
7:00 - 7:30: Eat and meet
7:30 - 9:00: Mobile HTML5, by Scott Davis
6:00 - 7:00: HTML5 Geolocation, by Scott Ryan
HTML5 introduces a standardized access to geolocation data. We will look at the interface and how to use the data. We will explore the privacy settings and how they are handled as well as how to determine accuracy of the locations. We will look at how to utilize the data and how to implement a fallback if your browser does not yet support the HTML5 geolocation features. We will explore this interface on Firefox, Opera and Android.
- Laying the Foundation
- Privacy and what it means
- The Geolocation interface
- How accurate are my results (speed versus accuracy)
- How to use the location data for something useful
- Fallback alternatives
7:30 - 9:00: Mobile HTML5: Optimize your website a little or a lot, by Scott Davis
Apple sold 4.1 million Macs in Q4 of 2010 -- an impressive number until you consider that they sold 7.3 million iPads, 9.1 million iPods, and 16.3 millions iPhones in the same timeframe. IDC reports that smartphones outsold desktop PCs across the board for the first time in history, and the trend is expected to continue in 2011.
The mobile web is here, and this talk aims to help you get your website up to speed. You can make some subtle tweaks to your existing website to make it more mobile friendly -- accounting for the smaller viewport screen size, providing layouts for both portrait and landscape mode, and making your hyperlinks mobile-friendly. Or you can optimize it a lot by providing a dedicated website that leverages HTML5 local storage, application cache, and more.
As the mobile ecosystem continues to grow and fragment with devices from smartphones to tablets -- running iOS, Android, WebOS, and everything else -- having a coherent mobile web strategy can help smooth out the bumps and move you from a "one size fits all" mentality to a more adaptive, right-sized approach to web development.
About Scott Ryan:
Scott is a senior technology leader who specializes in helping companies of any size adopt and leverage new software technologies and development processes to deliver extreme business value. He loves to get his hands deep into the latest technologies and is always posting hints tips and questions to drive learning and evolution of those technologies. He has implemented multi-language enterprise solutions in a number of industries including Financial, Banking, Energy and Petroleum, Telecommunications, Satellite, Cable, and Entertainment across several geographies including US, Latin America, Europe, Russia, and China. Scott is also contributor to several Open Source projects as well as a regular speaker at User Groups and Conferences. Scott also enjoys riding his Harley, Skiing, flying and volleyball.
About Scott Davis:
Scott Davis is the founder of ThirstyHead.com, a training and consulting company that that specializes in leading-edge technology solutions like HTML 5, NoSQL, Groovy, and Grails.
Scott has been writing about web development for over 10 years. His books include JBoss at Work (O'Reilly), The Google Maps API (Pragmatic Bookshelf), GIS for Web Developers (Pragmatic Bookshelf), Groovy Recipes (Pragmatic Bookshelf), and Getting Started with Grails (InfoQ). Scott is also the author of two popular article series at IBM developerWorks -- Mastering Grails and Practically Groovy.
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