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

Also be sure to check out my Day one notes.

jQuery – Matt Taylor

• 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

Mobile Development 101

• 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

Entrepreneur Talk – Panel Discussion

• 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.

Polyglot Grails – Jeff Brown

• 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

Minimalism – Alex Payne

• http://twitter.com/Al3X
• http://al3x.net/books_talks.html
• Interesting talk about little m minimalism and how it be applied to code
• Alex made a few comments about how programming is a young field

List of slides on strangeloop.com
Day two sessions

Related Posts

• Strange Loop 2009 – Day 1
• Strange Loop 2010 – Early Bird Registration