Speakers

Tom Valletta

Open Web Evangelist

Thomas A. Valletta, Open Web Evangelist, Enterprise Architect, and hack has been developing for the web for fourteen years. His clients range across industries including defence, healthcare, technology, e-commerce, human resources and religion. He has professionally developed native applications for Android, iPhone, WebOS, Blackberry, and Windows. He has engineered solutions using Java, .Net, PHP, JavaScript, Objective C, VBScript and Commodore Basic (I am pretty sure that those last two don't count). He lives outside of Salt Lake City, Utah with his wife and four children.

Blog

Why use Cookieless Domain?

Posted Tuesday, March 6, 2012

What is a cookieless domain? A cookieless domain is a domain like any other. It is used to serve assets that will not use cookiemore »

Using Your Phone as a Game Controller

Posted Monday, November 21, 2011

I was trying to come up with a presentation demo that would show off the iOS gyroscope api. At first the best that I could come up with was a scrolling marquee. I thought that it would be cooler than it actually wasmore »

Studies On Site Performance

Posted Friday, June 3, 2011

A couple of recent blog articles on different ways to improve site performance led me to go dig up some less recent studies on the impacts of performance (or the lack thereof). I threw some of the data into some graphs. When the data is brought togethemore »

The Open Web Platform

Posted Tuesday, May 24, 2011

The Open Web Platform. That is what you call it now. You may have called it something different beforemore »

Google Chrome Decides to Lead

Posted Tuesday, May 17, 2011

Ian Fette, Alex Komoroske, and Alex Russell presented at Google I/O on “HTML5 and What’s Next”. The presentation was an insightful step-by-step tour of the future of Chrome and likely the web. Google has obviously decided thmore »

Presentations

Mobile Web Workshop (Web Bowling)

Build a Web Bowling game using HTML5, CSS, accelerometer and gyroscope, web sockets, and Box2D physics.more »

Browser Dev Tools Showdown

Every developer has their favorite tools and today when it comes to which browsers to develop in we have a few choices. more »

Native Mobile vs. The Open Web

We will be exploring the features and capabilities of native platforms and comparing them to what is available via the mobile browsers. The strengths and weaknesses of both native and web approaches will be demonstrated through example applications and cmore »

netty vs. node.js

Node.js and Netty are both frameworks for building scalable network applications. While Node.more »

JavaScript Puzzlers

We will be going through a handful of strange and seemingly anomalous JavaScript programming puzzles in the style of Joshua Bloch's entertaining and enlightening game show. more »