SourceDevCon 2012 – sharing experience in mobile and desktop web app industry

SourceDevCon 2012 is over – 6 days of intense talks, training and hopefully a little fun.

What is SourceDevCon?

.  38 speakers to share hundreds of years of experience in mobile and desktop web app industry

.  Desktop Web Apps (ext JS) – intermediate and advanced level topics presented by Sencha and community devs

.  Mobile apps (Sencha Touch) – Intermediate and advanced level topics presented by Sencha and community devs

.  Client side JavaScript – Coding conventions, Browser databases

.  Server side JavaScript – Node.js, MongoDB

.  HTML5 – Gaming engines, canvas, animations

.  Planning and Coding – Source code management, Social networks integration, Unit testing

For me the highlight of the conference was to talk to Douglas Crockford, author of JavaScript: The Good Parts (O’Reilly). Douglas’ talk sounded very interesting – Programming Style and your Brain. Unfortunately I was not able to attend. Douglas is working at Yahoo! and on that day, like all of us, he was awaiting the latest news. He also revealed that he was writing another book but keep being distracted… so it might or might not be written. If you meet him, please nudge him and do tell him that we are all waiting for a new great book.