"PWA's How Did We Get Here?", with Simon MacDonald

We're happy to announce another session of the Online ColdFusion Meetup to be held Thursday Aug 13th at 6pm US Eastern Time, UTC-4. (We have announced another at 12pm US ET the same day.)

Like last week, we will hold this meeting via Zoom, including the option to dial in:

https://us02web.zoom.us/j/86884169392
Meeting ID: 868 8416 9392
Phone: +1 646 558 8656 US (New York)
Find your local number: https://us02web.zoom.us/u/kbI5k5rhRo

TOPIC DESCRIPTION: (provided by the speaker)

Back in the mid 90’s we only had one cross platform choice for building internet connected applications and that was HTML, CSS and JavaScript. So why is it now that after 25+ years have passed we are back to building internet connected applications with HTML, CSS and JavaScript and calling them Progressive Web Apps? Join me as we journey from the webs earliest beginnings to get back exactly where we started, or have we?

Along the way we’ll visit old friends like Flash who was to many the first way to add interactivity to web pages. Discuss the introduction of AJAX where the web started to catch up. Shudder at the seismic shift after the introduction of the iPhone and mobile apps only to be challenged by cross platform mobile development platforms like Apache Cordova. Now, we are back to building plain old web apps and what have we learned along the way and what might be coming next?

ABOUT THE SPEAKER: (provided by the speaker)

Simon has over twenty years of development experience and has worked on a variety of projects including object oriented databases, police communication systems, speech recognition and unified messaging. His current focus is being a developer advocate for Adobe where he assists people building solutions across a wide variety of areas like web, mobile and serverless. Simon’s been building web applications since the days they were written using shell scripts and he still has nightmares about those dark days.

DURATION: Approx. 1 hour, plus time for questions

RECORDINGS:

All meetings are recorded. The URL will be posted after meeting at https://recordings.coldfusionmeetup.com. In addition to those Adobe Connect streaming recording posted immediately after the meeting, we also post recordings at Youtube usually within a day of the meeting.

WANT TO PRESENT?

We welcome and indeed seek presentations from anyone wishing to speak about any projects regarding or tangentially related to CF. For more, see https://speak.coldfusionmeetup.com.