"Developing Offline Applications" and "HTML 5 Animations"

6 pm : "Developing Offline Applications with HTML 5" by Venkat Subramaniam

7 pm: Dinner and Networking

7:30 pm: "HTML 5 Animations - building true richness on the web" by Venkat Subramaniam

"Developing Offline Applications with HTML 5" by Venkat Subramaniam

Mobile devices are gaining popularity but the diversity of these devices poses a challenge for development. HTML 5 promises to bring a consistent API to program the client side for both desktop and diverse mobile devices. One additional challenge with mobile devices is network connectivity, or the lack of it. Mobile devices are often taken into remote areas with low or no connectivity. While a native app can run on the device anytime, a web based application by default depends on having connectivity, unless of course we use the offline capabilities of HTML 5. Come to this presentation to learn how to create applications that can switch seamlessly between connected and offline mode. Learn about offline options, configurations, local storage and how to program all of that, in this highly interactive, live coding session.

"HTML 5 Animations - building true richness on the web" by Venkat Subramaniam

User experience and rich interaction is top in the list of things that influence the success and adoption of applications. Such richness and interactions were owned by desktop and native applications in the past. Over the recent years the web has become increasingly interactive, but the true richness was still lacking. But all that has changed with HTML 5 canvas and animation techniques. Come to this session to learn how to create rich interactive applications with good animation, mouse and touch based interactions.

Dr. Venkat Subramaniam is an award-winning author, founder of Agile Developer, Inc., and an instructional professor at the University of Houston.

He has trained and mentored thousands of software developers in the US, Canada, Europe, and Asia, and is a regularly-invited speaker at several international conferences. Venkat helps his clients effectively apply and succeed with agile practices on their software projects.

Venkat is a (co)author of multiple books, including the 2007 Jolt Productivity award winning book Practices of an Agile Developer. His latest book is Functional Programming in Java: Harnessing the Power of Java 8 Lambda Expressions. You can reach him by email at venkats@agiledeveloper.com or on twitter at @venkat_s.