Strange Loop 2009 – Day 2

My notes and thoughts about day two of strange loop 2009.

Also be sure to check out my Day one notes.

http://weblog.dangertree.net/
Showed numerous examples how easy jQuery makes it to select and edit HTML elements. Made me realize I should use jQuery even in small apps.
Also showed examples of the jQuery AJAX functionality

http://www.slideshare.net/michael.galpin
http://fupeg.blogspot.com/
This session was full which doesn’t surprise me since mobile development is about to get easier thanks to Android.
Started off going how to develop apps for the iPhone
- The emulator and development software only run on a Mac
- Has to be written in Objective C
  - I wanted to throw up when I saw the objective c examples
  - No garbage collection. Memory is limited on phones so this is an important issue.
  - Maybe I’m just to much of a simpleton, but I really don’t ever want to write any objective C
- MVC framework – cocoa touch
- No background processing on iphone
Android
- Can run any language that is built on the JVM
- XML format for UI develoment
- Does not use standard MVC pattern. Uses something called Activities and Intents.
- There are multiple android emulators
Mobile dev best practices (not specific to android or iphone)
- Need lean web services
- Limit network traffic
- Limit audio/video/images
Mobile Web Application
- Alternative to writing an iPhone/Android app
- A lot of phones have the same browser now
- Some mobile browsers leak memory

This book was mentioned, Outliers: The Story of Success
Someone said that you need irrational arrogance to start your own company.
Another person said that start ups are all offense and no defense. Just keep putting stuff out, early and often
The idea was presented that everyone has risk even the person working for a company because you can be fired at any time
The current work culture is sort of like having one client at a time because developers change jobs so often.

http://www.nofluffjuststuff.com/conference/speaker/jeff_brown
http://javajeff.blogspot.com/
You can use many languages with Grails. Jeff even gave an example of Grails with a simple language he created
methodMissing(string name, args) is a very interesting feature of Groovy

October 25, 2009 | Filed Under java, open source | 2 Comments

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