HTML 5 Development for Windows Phone and Desktop

In this session Ben Riga and Doris Chen from Microsoft will join us. Ben and Doris will give us an overview of Microsoft’s overall HTML 5 strategy overview including Internet Explorer on the desktop. They will also show us Windows Phone and Internet Explorer for Windows Phone. And finally they’ll provide a quick overview of the recently announced PhoneGap for Windows Phone.

Ben Riga

Ben Riga is Senior Technical Evangelist for Windows Phone 7 in Microsoft's Developer and Platform Evangelism (DPE) group. In this role he runs around demonstrating the compelling technical and business value of the Windows Phone platform and how partners benefit when publishing apps to the Windows Phone marketplace. Ben also supports the Microsoft field by engaging in key projects, recruiting target customers/partners, and engaging customers and partners with feedback.

Twitter: @benriga (http://twitter.com/#!/benriga)

Blog: http://blogs.msdn.com/b/benriga/

Doris Chen

Doris is a Developer Evangelist at Microsoft for the Western region of the United States, specialized in web technologies (HTML5, jQuery, Ajax, ASP.NET, and Java).

Doris has over 13 years of experience in the software industry working in several open source web tier technologies, Java platform, .NET and distributed computing technologies. She has developed and delivered over 400 keynotes, technical sessions, code camps worldwide, published widely at numerous international conferences and user groups including JavaOne, O’Reilly, WebVisions, SD Forum, HTML5 and JavaScript meetups, and worldwide User Groups. Doris works very closely to create and foster the community around NetBeans, Glassfish, and related technologies. Before joining Microsoft, Doris Chen was a Technology Evangelist at Sun Microsystems.

Doris received her Ph.D. from the University of California at Los Angeles (UCLA) in computer engineering, specializing in medical informatics. She loves to travel and she has visited 48 countries (out of 872) so far. In her spare time, she also enjoys music, movies and museums.

Blog: http://blogs.msdn.com/b/dorischen/

Twitter @doristchen (http://twitter.com/#!/doristchen)