Pratik Patel

Presentations

Appcelerator Titanium Workshop

Bring your laptop! Use your JavaScript skills to build native iOS and Android apps! Learn from an Appcelerator Titan!

This is a full day workshop specifically designed to get you up and running with Titanium and build feature-rich applications! We'll install the latest Titanium Developer and iOS SDK - then create a project in Titanium Developer and run it in the simulator to verify your setup. Basic JavaScript experience is necessary for this session; please complete a basic JavaScript course or book before attending.

Titanium is an open-source development tool for producing cross-platform mobile applications by Appcelerator. Using Titanium, you develop your mobile application using Javascript coded against the Titanium API's. Titanium Studio, an IDE for your mobile apps, invokes their compiler and builder to take your Javascript and build a native application for iOS and Android.

This is a full day workshop intended to teach you the basics of Titanium. We'll work on several exercises as you build up a complete, feature-rich, mobile application that you can deploy on either Android or iOS. Topics we'll cover in this workshop: * Titanium quickstart * Titanium architecture and build process * Titanium API's ** UI elements: Lists, Labels, Windows, Views, Buttons, etc ** Navigation ** Tabs ** Databases ** Network operations * How to manage app upgrades * Connecting to social media sites * Debugging Titanium Applications * Best Practices * Turbo charging with Coffeescript * Building maintainable code with platform specific plugins

Advanced JavaScript for Java Devs

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So you think you've picked up enough JavaScript to be dangerous, but feel like the whole prototypical language thing is still a mystery. In this session, we'll go from basic JavaScript to advanced JavaScript. We'll discuss and code modular JavaScript with CommonJS. We'll look into the details of a prototype language and discuss things like parasitic inheritance. We'll also look at JavaScript libraries that will help you get the most out of JavaScript - not jQuery, but a library like UnderscoreJS and SugarJS.

This is a fast paced session meant to bring you up to speed with the latest and greatest JavaScript techniques and tools. Whether you're building client side JavaScript with HTML5 or Appcelerator Titanium, or server-side JavaScript with node.js, you'll come away with knowledge and patterns for how the pro's use JavaScript for building real apps.

Apponomics

You've got a great idea for a mobile app. You have a team together. You're building the killer app. Do you know enough about the various app stores to know what to do next? How about pricing strategies for iOS and Android? Have you thought about the Nook Color and Amazon Fire? In this session, I'll bring my experience as CTO of TripLingo, an awesome company developing foreign language learning apps. TripLingo has been featured on the iOS store a dozen times, as well as the Android market and Nook store.

You've got a great idea for a mobile app. You have a team together. You're building the killer app. Do you know enough about the various app stores to know what to do next? How about pricing strategies for iOS and Android? Have you thought about the Nook Color and Amazon Fire? In this session, I'll bring my experience as CTO of TripLingo, an awesome company developing foreign language learning apps. TripLingo has been featured on the iOS store a dozen times, as well as the Android market and Nook store.

Mobile Development Options 2013

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There's a bevy of options for developing mobile apps. If you're looking at cross-platform solutions, there's a multitude of options to choose from. In this session we'll explore the three basic categories for developing mobile apps: native, cross-platform-to-native, and mobile web. We'll discuss the sweet spot for each of these three approaches and the benefits and drawbacks of each. Technologies discussed include Android, iOS, HTML5/CSS3, Phonegap, Titanium, and jQuery Mobile.

There's a bevy of options for developing mobile apps. If you're looking at cross-platform solutions, there's a multitude of options to choose from. In this session we'll explore the three basic categories for developing mobile apps: native, cross-platform-to-native, and mobile web. We'll discuss the sweet spot for each of these three approaches and the benefits and drawbacks of each. Technologies discussed include Android, iOS, HTML5/CSS3, Phonegap, Titanium, and jQuery Mobile.

JavaScript Workshop, part I

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Get your skills up to speed for JavaScript, the oft-misunderstood language of the web, in this 2 part workshop. We'll start from the very basics and learn the ins-and-outs of JavaScript. We'll look at the (many) quirks in JavaScript, and work through advanced features that make this language so powerful. Come with an open-mind and ready to dig into code!

This 2 part workshop requires a laptop, and assumes the attendee has ZERO knowledge of JavaScript. We'll break down your bad habits, and build upon known patterns and best practices to raise your JavaScript-fu.

JavaScript Workshop, part II

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JavasScript workshop part II Get your skills up to speed for JavaScript, the oft-misunderstood language of the web, in this 2 part workshop. We'll start from the very basics and learn the ins-and-outs of JavaScript. We'll look at the (many) quirks in JavaScript, and work through advanced features that make this language so powerful. Come with an open-mind and ready to dig into code!

This 2 part workshop requires a laptop, and assumes the attendee has ZERO knowledge of JavaScript. We'll break down your bad habits, and build upon known patterns and best practices to raise your JavaScript-fu.