The Jacksonville Startup Weekend organizers will hold a Pre-Event this Saturday, December 21st from 2 pm-4 pm at the Microsoft store in St. Johns Town Center. This is the third year Startup Weekend is coming to Jacksonville and judging from previous years mobile developers and designers are going to be a hot commodity yet again. The Pre-Event is a good way to get a feel for who might participate and what the 54 hours roller-coaster is going to bring come January 24th. Beside the organizers, alumni and ex-coaches could be on site to answer your questions.
Look forward to seeing you this Saturday and don't forget to checkout the event details at jacksonville.startupweekend.org
Product backlogs describe only the roadmap of the system from a feature set perspective, leaving architectural decisions to be made as needed in order to support new features. However, as mobile applications grow in size and complexity, or as they span multiple platforms and devices, architectural decisions become more complex and costly. In this session, we discuss how introducing an “Architecture Roadmap” in parallel with your “Product Roadmap” can help you creating and managing the vision for the Architecture of your application and allowing you to better plan for core changes needed to support your Product future growth.
Pablo Barros is a software design enthusiast and determined to “keep it simple” while building and delivering against full solution specs. As Applications Architect at Oracle, Pablo defines and manages the pipeline of future architecture-related changes needed in the application to support upcoming Product changes. Previously, Pablo has worked in different startups focusing mostly in delivering scalable SaaS systems, mainly in E-commerce. Pablo hates meetings and loves well-oiled agile teams that deliver products in a lean fashion.
Only one year out of beta Parse has established itselef as a solid MBaaS by developers for developers. This talk will take a deep dive into the using the Parse SDK on Android to build a collaborative application line by line. Rumor has it there will be some Expert Android books on hand to raffle as well.
Satya Komatineni has been programming for about 30 years now. He is happy to report that it is all worth it. He has co-authored the Apress Pro-Android series of books and more recently the Expert Android series. He has been a frequent speaker at O'Reilly Open Source Conference, speaking on innovations around Java and Web. His focus and struggle the last couple of years has been how to carry-on meaningful work centered around individual growth through knowledge-able platforms. Satya has done a considerable amount of original work in creating Aspire, a comprehensive open-source Java-based web framework, and has explored personal web productivity and collaboration tools through his open-source work for KnowledgeFolders.com.
Life as a mobile dev ain't easy. Everyone wants their mobile apps, and wants them done yesterday. What's a hustling dev to do? Luckily, Xamarin has launched two big products that make your life a little easier: the Component Store, and Test Cloud. We'll take a look at both, and see what's what. We'll also be giving away some sweet swag, so don't miss out!
Zack Gramana works with the other monkeys at Xamarin. He lives in the Component Store, and gathers bananas in his spare time.
How to use your skills in HTML, CSS and JavaScript to develop, test, and publish applications that run natively on the Apple iOS and Google Android mobile platforms by combining the convenience of a local coding environment with cloud-based compilation, data storage, and publishing.
Mark was born and raised in Poland, lived in Germany and Canada before settling in Jacksonville. Works as a mobile app developer at Mintek.com, 20 years hands-on experience in object oriented software analysis, design, development and web development in MS Windows, UNIX and iOS. MCTS in Business Intelligence Solutions.
Lessons learned from developing native Android and iOS applications using rest based web services. Learn the benefits and disadvantages of developing native applications in Java and Objective-C. This presentation will also cover how to use JSON Web Tokens for authentication.
David Fekke is a software engineer based here in Jacksonville, Fl. He has been building web based enterprise applications for over a decade. He also owns a company that builds iOS applications that are available on Apple's app store.
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You've learned Objective-C and Cocoa, and may have possibly deployed an App or two to the Apple App Store. If you're an awesome developer who writes code, complete and perfect, the first time, then you're a very special breed. But, if you're like the rest of us, who writes not so perfect code and often implement enhancements and collaborate with other team members that may ultimately update your very code, then your team following a set of guidelines will make development smoother. In this talk, I will present some useful Objective-C style guidelines that iOS developers can use to develop code that is easier to read and enhance in a team environment.
Rolin Nelson is a software engineer based out of Jacksonville, FL. He has been consulting in the Information Technology arena for over 20 years. He has spent the last four years developing both internal and external native iOS applications for large corporations (i.e. Apple, PSS). Prior to delving into the mobile arena Rolin specialized in middleware enterprise integration.
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Figuring out how to do BDD for iOS isn't exactly clear cut. There are a number of contenders for framework of choice for both the integration and unit layers. Even when you've figured out which framework, it's not always easy to figure out what parts of your application to test and why. You're in luck! I've spent the last 1.5 years doing all the hard work for you! I'll offer a comparison of the popular BDD frameworks so you can figure out what will work best for you. I'll also be going over how to effectively BDD iOS applications as well as looking at how to retrofit your application with tests to cover the application's high value paths.
Stephen is an old hand in the world of Software Development. He spends his days in sunny Jacksonville Beach, FL working at Hashrocket as their most venerable developer (an honorific that comes with a cane). He's been working on the web building applications and APIs since the first dot com bust and has been slinging Objective-C for iOS full time for the last two years. Stephen loves Agile Development and is anxiously trying to improve the state of and tooling for BDD for iOS.
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BYOD is here whether you like it or not. You've been agonizing over your BYOD policy and perhaps selected a vendor solution from the likes of Good Technology or MobileIron to manage device access and enforce policies. What about the employees with smart phones that are less inclined to play by the rules? We will go over some chinks in the armor and what options you have in stopping data exfiltration and unauthorized usage. We'll focus on iPhone and Android from a smart phone prospective but the preventive measures are universal.
Brent Morris is an Information Security Analyst at VyStar Credit Union where he spends most of his time focusing in the areas of web and enterprise security. His interests include operating system, virtualization, forensics, intrusion detection, malware analysis and vulnerability detection. Brent has been a speaker at security events such as the SANS Mobile Device Security Summit, and the Jacksonville Linux User Group.
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We will develop a single-screen iPhone app from scratch that does tip (gratuity) calculations. This is an app I wrote and published in the Apple App store. I will show the code that comprises the business logic, which is C# but is compiled on a Mac using MonoTouch. This process converts it to Objective-C. I will also demonstrate Apple's Xcode and Interface Builder and how they interact with MonoTouch. I will talk about some of the steps necessary to get your apps into the app store.
Irv Adams holds a BA degree in Mathematics. He has twenty-seven years in the IT field, ten as a self-employed consultant and the rest as a client support and internal systems specialist. He has coded in various environments BASIC, C, C++, VB, dBase, Clipper, FoxPro, ASP, WPF, and in the last seven years in .NET/SQL. Most recently he has taken an interest in Mobile apps for phone and tablets. He enjoys writing iPhone apps using MonoTouch by Xamarin
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A brief overview of some of the new features available to developers in iOS 6, including Passbook, Transit routing and the new Maps API, and Facebook sharing. Also, some perspective on being a member of the community of iOS and Mac developers, including WWDC experiences from the last few years. Bring any questions you may have!
Mike Glass is the President of Pocket Sevens, Inc., a Jacksonville based mobile development consultancy focused on iPhone and iPad apps. He has been developing for Mac OS since 2006, and iOS since day one of the iPhone SDK in 2008. His passion is building awesome, creative and easy to use apps. He also speaks on simplicity and usability in the iOS development world. Outside of work, he loves cooking, airplanes, boats and the New York Yankees. He is originally from Connecticut, and now lives in Jacksonville with his wife Nicole and daughter Madison.
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Joel Hegeman is the Vice President of application development for New Age Solution. Joel was born and mostly raised right here in Jacksonville. He has been writing enterprise web and mobile applications for 14 years in various languages and platforms. Joel specializes in .Net, jQuery, Windows Phone, and Android development projects. Joel is the author of several WP7 apps including Simply Solitaire which generates over a million ad impressions a month.
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This talk will take you step by step on a journey all the way to the Android Market. We will cover development station requirements, differences between various devices, different market places, how to consume web-services, mobile ads solutions, when to go with a paid or ads supported app, how to persist data easily and more.
Michael Gidron is a software engineer calling Jacksonville home for the last decade. He's worked on desktop, server, web, and mobile applications for over 12 years. He has been developing Android applications for the last 2 years and is the author of MyCigarBook Plus, a free Android app that gives cigar aficionado's a convenient way to log their favorite cigars.
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This talk will take you step by step on a journey all the way to the Marketplace. We will cover development station requirements, differences between WP7, WP8, tablets, devices availability, how to consume web-services, mobile ads solutions, when to go with a paid or ads supported app, how to persist data easily and more.
Mark J Radacz - born and raised in Poland and lived in Germany and Canada before settling in Jacksonville. Works as a developer at DiscoverTec, 20 years hands-on experience in object oriented software analysis, design, development and web development in MS Windows, UNIX. MCTS in Business Intelligence Solutions and working on MCTS .NET Framework 4.0 ASP .NET certification.
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This talk will take you step by step on a journey all the way to the AppStore. We will cover development station requirements, device differences between iPhone, iPad2 and iPad3, how to support multiple versions of iOS, how to consume web-services, mobile ads solutions, when to go with a paid or ads supported app, how to persist data easily and more.
David Fekke is a software engineer based here in Jacksonville, Fl. He has been building web based enterprise applications for over a decade. He also owns a company that builds iOS applications that are available on Apple's app store.
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