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HTML5 Training Day (Mountain View) – Summary

Well, in the past month I was busy organizing this HTML5 Training Day for business web developers. You may want to stop and ask:
What Is HTML5 Training Day? So, our main goal is to have an open conversation with business web developers and to provide them with tools and knowledge to implement HTML5 features into their web apps. In this one day event, world-class experts talk about tools, tips and best practices in web development with focus on business.

It was a lot of fun and last week, we had in Google more then 24 companies that came to learn about the latest and greatest in the open web technologies.

We started the day with a short presentation that I gave on ‘The State of ChromeOS’. It’s amazing to see how fast is the pace and I suspect we are going to have a great 2012. After that (and two more cups of coffee) we got Pete LaPege (an excellent speaker, if I may) talking about: “HTML5 and new breed of web application” which aim to cover what defines a great Web App and show you how you can use HTML5 to create a new breed of web application that will delight and amaze your users.

Another cup of java and another web ninja: Mr. Eric Bidelman gave great talk with lots of demo on the ‘bleeding edge features in Chrome and the open web platform“.
and some HTML5 offline features. 

For the developers who wish to do ‘mobile first’ – we had a surprise from the snow country. Mr. Boris Smus (that build web stuff that make you – wow! for real) talking about A mobile web app technology stack. Here in his own words: “…Learn what it takes to build modern mobile web apps. We will start with the ideas of “adaptive apps” and “offline first”. Next, we’ll dive into some of the technologies, including MVC frameworks, templating engines, CSS frameworks, laying out views and multi-touch input. Finally, we’ll close off with mobile-specific tips and sweet demos.”

After Boris we had the pleasure to host David Kaneda (for the few that don’t know, David Kaneda is a creative web technologist. He created jQTouch, a jQuery plugin for mobile web development, and Outpost, the original iPhone app for Basecamp.) David gave another great talk on “Abstracting CSS for Complex Theming Systems.”

In the afternoon, Mr. Seth Ladd (The Michael Jordan of Dart) spoke about Dart and how it is a comprehensive effort to help app developers build complex, full featured, high fidelity apps for the modern web. He gave some nice short demos that showed the language, libraries, and editor of Dart.

Last but not least, Mr. Christos Apartoglou (The Chrome Web Store Chief) spoke about  Success stories in CWS. He talked about some bold success stories and showed what makes apps in the Chrome Web Store successful.

You can see the format of the day with the full descriptions of the talks over the public schedule that we kept for that day. It was a good tool to have a back channel (using the chat feature on the document) and to allow everyone to keep updated with the last minute changes. I hope to have some videos from that day public… I will post them here and on my G+ page.

See you all in our next Training day.

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Chrome, HTML5

Google Developers Days (Tel Aviv & Berlin) And One CloudCon

It was a busy week. Busy but with lots of fun. It’s so great to meet wonderful developers that push the web forward and know (and love) their profession. Last sunday, we had Google Developers Day in Tel Aviv (or Airport city if you want to be accurate) – it was well organized event with more then 1400 developers. In the keynote we had three demos:

  • Android – Ice cream sandwich new capabilities (maps, nfc, HD and other features. To dive deeper, go check Romain Guy’s blog).
  • Chrome/HTML5 amazing new features – I did the demos and I hope to post a list next week.
  • G+ – the new hangout APIs with a robot that eat falafel and drink beers.
Here you can check some coverage:
 The CloudCon was also impressive in terms of the audience (mainly, CIO/CTO dudes) – they liked the story of HTML5 and ChromeOS. I got some good questions on new features: offline, notifications, threads and even on web audio. It could be great to have the new Chromebooks in Israel, it seems that the market really want them. The one argument (or selling point if you want to push here) that conviense IT people is that the TCO (=Total cost of ownership) is 60%-70% cheaper. Yes – these are the numbers… so if your organization can work with web apps (and Citrix for the apps that you don’t want to move to the web) it might be a perfect solution for you.

I hope to get some photos soon (from our dear wonderful photographer) – so I’ll update this post with fresh photos of some great looking people.

Tomorrow we are going to rock Berlin – so keep up with us using G+ with #GDD11 tag  or this blog next week. Btw, for Berlin GDD you might want to search after #GDDDE

Be strong.

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In case you want to follow the slides from my Talk in CloudCon – The ‘love’ story of HTML5 & ChromeOS.

From Google Developers Day in Berlin here are the talks:

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ChromeOS In VirtualBox – Test Drive It

In a lot of cases you wish to develop to the new Chromebook but don’t have the hardware or just want to be more productive while working on your 8-core linux box… In these cases, there is a good option to run the latest ChromeOS inside Virtualbox (or VMware if you have it). A quick reminder, Chromium OS (which is the open source version of ChromeOS) is a project that aims to build an operating system that provides a fast, simple and more secure computing experience for people who spend most of their time on the web. In our tutorial here we will use Chromium OS images.

 

 

 

The steps to follow

  1. Download VirtualBox.
  2. You can build your own OS if you wish, just go to: chromium-os and read the details.
    However, there is an easy way – just download an image of Chromium OS – I have one for you here or just type http://bit.ly/crOS-16.
    And this guy is creating lots of fresh images of Chromium OS every day. So if you want the real ‘development’ (=alpha) version of it – check it out.
  3. Open the VirtualBox and click on ‘New’ button (upper left corner) – You will get this:

Choose Linux and Ubuntu and click ‘Continue’.

Next you need to set the memory – make sure to set an amount that you can devote to VirtualBox without killing your machine. Something around 1500MB should work. If you have more, even better.

The last part of this wizard is to choose the image file. Click on the radiobox and point to the place you save the image file of ChromeOS.

Next dialog will show you a summary of all the details and after you will click ‘Create’ you are good to go!

Tips

  • Make sure to open ‘Setting’ of your new virtual machine and under ‘Processor’ click the PAE checkbox. If you won’t do that, you will get the ‘black screen of death’ and the machine won’t start.
  • If you getting errors while loading – sometimes it’s due to lack of memory. Try to close some applications and start the virtual box again.
  • Make sure you have something like 100mb of memory to the ‘video memory’ under the display section in the settings.

 

3 Minutes Video Tutorial

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Chrome, life

So What Developer Advocate Do?

Coding, Blogging, Public Speaking And Dealing With Partners

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Some Coding

Some Blogging

Public Speaking

And Of Course – Business Development

Here are all the things any Developer Advocate do on a daily/weekly bases:

and thanks to @chanezon for the ideas.

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