#GTUGSF - Google Technology User Group - San Francisco

Mobile Code Lab | A Full Day w/ @PPK (Peter-Paul Koch of QuirksMode.org) #GTUGsf

April 7, 2012 · 10:00 AM
Adobe Systems San Francisco

update 3/26 - This event will be held at Adobe SF!

We are proud to announce that PPK will be headlining our second sfHTML5 code lab! This workshop aims at giving you an overview of the mobile world. PPK will treat the mobile world as a whole, with its 25 browsers, 20 operators, 15 device vendors, and 10 operating systems. He'll also discuss some future features of the mobile web and the touch events.

After these overviews there is plenty of time for some hacking-around. PPK hopes the workshop attendees will bring real-world projects that we can test on real-world phones, and we'll discuss the problems, solutions, and results afterwards.

It is highly recommended that participants attend @PPK's sfHTML5 talk on Viewports at AdobeSF the night before. That event is free and will be streamed. A link to the stream will be posted here as soon as it is made available on 4/6.

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Peter-Paul Koch (PPK) is a mobile platform strategist, consultant, and trainer in Amsterdam, the Netherlands. He specializes in HTML, CSS, JavaScript, and browser compatibility.

He has won international renown with his browser compatibility research, frequently speaks at conferences, has founded Fronteers, the Dutch association of front-end professionals, and advises mobile and desktop browser vendors on their implementation of Web standards.
In 2009 he shifted from traditional desktop browsers and sites to the mobile web, and he never looked back. He discovered that mobile devices and browsers are in even more need of description than their desktop counterparts, and set himself to the task. On the Web he is universally known as "ppk."

Currently he has about twenty mobile phones lying around on his desk. The one thing he never does with any of these phones is make a phone call.

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AGENDA
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10AM CODELAB 1 PPK! Peter-Paul Koch
12PM -CATERED LUNCH*
1PM - CODELAB 2 - PPK! Peter-Paul Koch
4PM - DRINKS AND NETWORKING
6PM - DOORS CLOSE

(*PLEASE NOTE IF VEG!)

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Adobe donated their legendary San Francisco office for this event. If you haven't checked out labs.adobe.com, you should! They are starting to release CS6 betas!

Adobe's San Francisco office is on Townsend, and borders the San Francisco Caltrain Station!

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O'Reilly Media has given us stacks and stacks of books to give away. Thank them by writing a review!

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GTUGsf would like to give a Special Thanks to Peter Lubbers, Vanessa Wang and all of the sfHTML5.org Members, Sponsors and Organizers.

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Christopher Harris

Thanks very much to PPK and the organizers for this very informative event. PPK was a great speaker, very knowledgeable and entertaining at the same time, and took the time to answer everyone's questions.

0 · April 9, 2012
Keith Ensign

awesome day of information and insight

0 · April 8, 2012
Ken Penn

PPK is one of the nicest guys you'll ever meet, and has encyclopedic knowledge of mobile development and & testing. Great group of devs were there, too.

0 · April 8, 2012
Jeff Schuenke

note really a lab. Expected something else

0 · April 8, 2012
Tom Turner

I'm looking forward to viewing the video of the previous meetup with Peter Lubbers and Frank Salim on March 10, 2012. Has it been posted somewhere? Thanks.

0 · March 26, 2012