Sencha Touch and HTML5 Canvas

6:00 - 7:00: Mind-blowing apps with HTML5 Canvas, by David Geary

7:00 - 7:30: Food!

7:30 - 9:00: Sencha Touch by Johnny Wey

6:00 - 7:00: Mind-blowing apps with HTML5 Canvas

Before the web, software developers implemented what we now refer to as desktop applications, using powerful graphics APIs that gave them the ability to program pretty much anything they could imagine. Then along came browsers with virtually no standard graphics support at all. Enter boring web applications, and dull work for developers.

But now, with HTML5 Canvas, developers have a powerful graphics API that lets them develop mind-blowing applications. Now you can implement desktop-like applications that run in a browser. Tonight, we'll see how.

This talk is a demo-fueled, fast-paced introduction to HTML5 Canvas. You'll get an overview of the Canvas API, and see how you can use it to draw, manipulate images, and implement sprite-based animation. You will get a feel for what you can do with this powerful API, and you'll get a basic understanding of how to harness that power.

About David Geary

David Geary is the author of Core HTML5 Canvas to be published by Prentice-Hall in April, 2012.

A prominent author, speaker, and consultant, David has written eight Java books, four of which are best-sellers in their respective categories, including one of the best-selling technical book series of all time: Graphic Java.

David has spoken at hundreds of conferecences worldwide, including JavaOne, StrangeLoop, The Server-side Symposium, Devoxx, and JAOO. David was a regular speaker for six years on the No Fluff Just Stuff tour, averaging five 90-minute sessions at 20 conferences per year. David is a three-time JavaOne Rock Star.

7:30 - 9:00: Sencha Touch

Ever wanted to use a single code base to run touch-enabled web applications that run on just about every smart phone and tablet around?

Sencha Touch is one of the best touch-enabled web frameworks available today. Based on the proven and popular Ext JS desktop application suite, the touch counterpart uses controls that feel native but run in a mobile browser.

In this talk, Johnny will introduce Sencha Touch framework, show samples of what can be done using the technology, and demonstrate the construction and packaging of a cutting edge HTML5 application that can be downloaded and executed from a website or placed into the Android Market or Apple App Store as a native application using PhoneGap.

About Johnny Wey

Johnny is a principal engineer at Time Warner Cable in the Web Services group with over fifteen years of web application development. He is a generalist with experience in all layers of an application from the database to the UI. Currently, the projects he works on see traffic in the millions on a monthly basis, and the work has extended out to other client platforms including the popular Time Warner Cable iPad live video streaming application which recently won a engineering award from the Academy of Television Arts and Sciences.